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Pokémon Power ⇢ Neutral Shield
Prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Mew by Evolved Pokémon. You can’t use this power if Mew is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
{P} → Psyshock : 10
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
illus. Ken Sugimori · LV.8
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So rare that it is still said to be a mirage by many experts. Only a few people have seen it worldwide.
Mantidactyle
Great Poke Body
Benjamin Poke Battler
Poke Power
Dark Kira
It’s actually a Pokemon Power, those are two different things (which got errata’d to be treated similarily but they are still not the same).
Mantidactyle
’twas a typo on my part =P
HEZ
It’s essentially a Poke Body anyway as in a static/always-on Ability/Pokemon Power. You were just speaking like a U150 player :P
feyblade
For clarity’s sake:
If an effect is capable of influencing Poke Powers AND Poke Bodies, it can influence Pokemon Powers. If it only targets one or the other, it cannot.
If something affects Pokemon Powers, on the other hand, it automatically affects both Poke Bodies and Poke Powers.
There is NO transparency between Abilities and Powers/Bodies. Effects that target Poke Powers, Poke Bodies, or even Pokemon Powers CANNOT target abilities and effects that target abilities cannot target the others.
HEZ
And that last paragraph is a total ruling failure seeing as Pokemon-Powers and Abilities are exactly the same mechanic, combining both static and activated abilities. When the introduced Powers & Bodies they tried to make them work with the old cards, when Abilities came along in B&W they didn’t even try, typical B&W on attitude.
Oh yeah… Mew. It’s cool, I want one (<on topic :P )
Dark Kira
Also it pretty much works exactly like a Poke-Body
Benjamin Poke Battler
I knew someone would say something lol
feyblade
Playing this at the right time could theoretically end a game right_there against opponents who lack the ability to devolve their pokemon.
HEZ
Well until Mew finally KOs something and they have room to put a Basic down again. It is a nice card though, I’d really like one to give it a go.
EverPhoenix
Or you could just sit there and stare at them. Preferably with Dark Vileplume on the bench, and wait for them to deck out.
coolestman22
In Unlimited, PHB would screw this over 50% of the time.
feyblade
actually, 100%: the official ruling is that any Pokemon Power that stops working when any of those three status conditions are applied to the defending pokemon will also stop working when the defending pokemon is poisoned or burned.
Brian Duddy
But that doesn’t make sense… the obvious intent was for Poison not to stop them…
MarxForever
The original creators intended for Poison to not shut down powers, yes. However when Pokemon Company took over the TCG they decided to change that.
Yet another reason not to mix post eReader cards with the original run. Besides the ridiculous power creep they decided to recon older cards to be crappier.
Brian Duddy
I thought both Wizards and TPCi didn’t really have anything to do with the actual development of the game?
MarxForever
Initially they didn’t . But around 2002 Nintendo took the reigns for the original developers and started making the cards in house through a division of Pokemon Company.
Ambassador
This is, uh, a bit of a confused history of what’s going on here? The change to the function of Pokémon Powers has to do with the pseudo-reboot of the TCG in Japan for the e-Card era, with the “new back” cards introducing Poké-Bodies and Poké-Powers. At that time, Poké-Powers and Poké-Bodies were introduced to the game, and Pokémon Powers from older sets were errata’d to be Poké-Powers – or else Poké-Bodies, as per a posted list* – and the caveats in operation changed accordingly. This has nothing to do with a change in who was developing the game – Pokémon Card Laboratories was the developer of the game in Japan prior to the errata, and continued to be the developer after. It had nothing to do with Wizards, or the change of license in North America and international markets that sort of coincidentally occurred a few years later.
* https://web.archive.org/web/20051018170017if_/http://www.pokemon-card.com/play/q_and_a/e_before_qa.html
MarxForever
Since when does Psyshock confuse? I smell a typo.
Ambassador
You are right! I just found this apparently comprehensive list of WOTC mistranslations* and while I’m chuffed we’ve found most of them ourselves already, this one hadn’t been pointed out yet**. (Gosh, these are terrible.) https://archive.ph/feeMc
* Compiled by one J Klaczynski. Anyone ever heard of the guy? Seems like he knows his stuff about the TCG.
** I outright missed it myself when I compiled a history of Psyshock for my comment on Espeon-EX (BKP117).
Twylis
That would be Jason Klaczynski, one of the most successful TCG players in history.
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jason_Klaczynski
Incidentally, his blog on past formats may give you some insights on the Champion Road reprint choices.
https://jklaczpokemon.com/
Ambassador
Oh, no worries lol! I meant that as a “Anyone ever hear of this Michael Jordan character? This character seems to know a bit about basketball..” but you’re absolutely right, he is hugely significant in this space!