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- ↓ 1.15
- ꩜ 3.05
- ↑ 95.61
Poké-POWER ⇢ Prowl
Once during your turn, when you play Persian from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may search your deck for any 1 card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
{C}{C} → Snap Tail
Choose 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. This attack does 30 damage to that Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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This same ability returned 7 years later on Dragons Exalted Roserade.
Twylis
Returned a bit earlier on Arceus Froslass, actually.
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Dragon Frontiers Ledian.
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Aha! Thanks for all these other examples :) Looks like UNM Whimsicott is the latest iteration of this ability.
Warnock 2022
What I like about the way this Poke-Power is phrased is that it doesn’t say “when you play Persian from your hand to evolve your MEOWTH.” If it did say that, then the ability wouldn’t be future-proofed to work with Ditto Prism Star. Just a nice little perk of the text here!
Other Poke-Powers with similar phrasing: https://pkmncards.com/?s=has%3Apoke-power+text%3A%22from+your+hand+to+evolve%22&sort=date&ord=rev&display=images