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{P} → Shatter Shot : 30×
This attack does 30 damage times the amount of {P} Energy attached to this Pokémon.
{P}{P}{C} → Damage Change
Switch all damage counters on this Pokémon with those on your opponent’s Active Pokémon.
· Pokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Richard Rich
Same question here as on https://pkmncards.com/card/mewtwo-ex-breakthrough-bkt-163/
Warnock 2022
I think the deeper lore here is the Parallel City (see card #145/162).
Warnock 2022
Upon thinking it over a bit… If I were to guess, I would say that the parallel dimensions created the “BREAK” Pokemon. Because that seems to be the idea, right? That a dimension “breaks.”
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_BREAK_(TCG)
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Yeah, I think that’s a fair assumption. I don’t think we ever got a full explanation of Pokémon BREAK – at least not in the way we got explanations for Delta Species back in Generation 3 – and like we’ve never *really* gotten explanations for tons of TCG-only mechanics, tbh. BREAK were kind of dumped onto the TCG and explanations were ad hoc created by fans – they’re “breaking” the horizontal format, they’re “breaking” the Stage 2 limit, they’re going to “break” Pokémon-EX. It could be all of those, but given all the sets they’re in had BREAK in the EN names, and the name of the set most BREAKpoint cards came from was called “Rage of the Broken Heavens” while you have all this ‘collision’ stuff going on.. it’s a fair guess.
To answer the original question – the “duality” insofar as the Mewtwo cards is indeed corresponding to the two colliding dimensions. To expand a little bit, though, BREAKthrough is primarily based on a ‘twinned’ set, XY8 Blue Shock, and XY8 Red Flash.
Blue Shock features Mega Mewtwo X in the set – the name of the set also explains the blue color on Mewtwo EX 61, the eponymous blue shock effect on M Mewtwo-EX #63 and #159, and the blue background on Mewtwo-EX #157 and #163. The artwork of most of the cards in Blue Shock focus on the “old city” and its surrounding natural habitat, and the choice of Zoroark, Meloetta, and Haxorus are cards from that set.
Red Flash focuses on Mega Mewtwo Y and the futuristic city, and to save myself from making any possible clerical error while transcribing card ID numbers, let’s just say the exact same thing applies to the Mewtwo Y-related cards, and Cresselia, Magnezone, and Chesnaught originate from Red Flash.