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Attach this card to 1 of your Evolved {R}, {L}, or {F} Pokémon in play. That Pokémon may use this card’s attack instead of its own. At the end of your turn, discard Miracle Sphere ⍺.
{R}{C}{C} → Fire Force : 30+
If the Pokémon using this attack has {R} and {L} basic Energy cards attached to it, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused. If the Pokémon using this attack has {R} and {F} basic Energy cards attached to it, this attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage and remove 3 damage counters from the Pokémon that Miracle Sphere ⍺ is attached to.
illus. Hiromichi Sugiyama
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Blob Takeshi
This is the first ever Alpha card!
Foon-Gus Fring
Hello from the future! Five cards appear in Primal Clash with the Ancient Trait “α Recovery.”
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Mystery Plate ⍺ did come before Miracle Sphere ⍺ in the JP TCG, and I’d argue even in the EN TCG – since it retained the e-TCG ID#s, the former’s E-51-# ID comes before this card’s F-49-# ID.
I think rather than the reappearance of the Greek alphabet in Gen VI of the TCG as the successor, the PCG era is probably an earlier successor to the spheres and plates, with the e-Card era’s α, β, and γ symbols being followed by the appearance of the δ symbols in the Delta Species-related sets. They were probably grabbing these symbols from a mathematical symbol typeface or unicode table. I think this is likely as the letters used for Pokémon-ex – i.e. the “𝒆𝒙” I’ve made a point of using on most comments – are stylized versions of the characters Unicode standards identify as “MATHEMATICAL small bold italic”. This is also why I think some of the symbols in the DPt era are probably mathematical notation – the C on Champion’s Pokémon cards of the DPt era doesn’t look too far off from the 𝘾 character Unicode standards identifies as “MATHEMATICAL sans-serif bold italic capital C”. The “FB” on Frontier Brain Pokémon looks similarish to the 𝙁𝘽 on Frontier Brain’s Pokémon, and even the “SP” logo of Pokémon-SP seems to be a stylized form of characters grabbed from the same alphabet.
Blob’s picked the wrong card, but it *is* one of a group of cards that appear to have kicked off the “first evers” for a bunch of stuff.