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Ability ⇢ Hearsay
When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may choose 1: put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand; or search your deck for a Supporter card, reveal it, put it into your hand, and then shuffle your deck.
{C}{C}{C} → Wing Attack : 90
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It is a flying transporter that carries small Pokémon in its beak. It bobs on the waves to rest its wings.
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Hearsay reads like its trying to approximate “Choose 1” Supporter cards like Tate and Liza or Giovanni’s Scheme, but I think it’s an awkward result of translation and English conventions. The original JP text basically could’ve been translated as “Choose either your deck or your [discard pile]. Choose a Supporter card from it, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you chose your deck, shuffle your deck afterwards.)” but I think the EN TCG team felt like they needed to rework the text because it’d imply you might ‘reveal’ a card from your discard pile to your opponent. The EN TCG team seems really obsessed about things like this and maybe rightfully so.
I’m not going to go hard on sleuthing through this, but Junk Arm might be the last time an EN card talks about “revealing”/”showing” the contents of a discard pile¹? I won’t poke on it too much because I think they’re dogmatically consistent about it, but if this ends up being the first of several cards with “either deck or discard” search effects, you will probably expect that the EN team is going to have to revisit how they phrase this sort of thing after all.
¹ The JP game doesn’t currently seem bothered by the idea of redundancy in terms of effects that state or imply ‘showing your opponent publicly available knowledge’ (or however that’s phrased), and I don’t think they’ve historically been bothered by it, either. It’s just one of those things that seems to be understood in context.
Skittle
This card hasn’t seen competitive play since it was released. Perhaps if a Pelipper ex is printed, it’ll slot in as a support.
kairos
That is because right now there is still Lumineon V in the standard format, which while it doesn’t have the effect of being able to pick your discard as well, it is quicker to get out (basic vs Stage 1) and has an attack that allows you to shuffle it into the deck meaning you could keep it from becoming an easy prize for someone. I could see this pelipper getting a little bit of use after Lumineon is rotated out, though, unless a different supporter searcher is printed by then.
SquidSystem
This card would have been fantastic if it came out a year earlier and got to share a format with Scoop Up Net. Maybe one day if Devolution Spray returns…