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{C}{C} → Wing Attack : 20
{C}{C}{C} → Hurricane : 30
Unless this attack Knocks Out the Defending Pokémon, return the Defending Pokémon and all cards attached to it to your opponent’s hand.
illus. Kagemaru Himeno · LV.40
Formats: Other: 1999–2001
External: Bulba ↗ · Shop: TCGplayer ↗, cardmarket ↗, eBay ↗
When hunting, it skims the surface of water at high speed to pick off unwary prey such as Magikarp.
MarxForever
This guy’s a key card in my “Ring Out” deck.
Literally Fling your opponent’s Pokemon back into their deck with Dark Machamp · Team Rocket (RO) #10, then Hurricane their last one back into their hand.
No Pokemon in the Arena, I win. There’s a bit more to it then that, but It runs better then you might think, and once it get’s going, things end fast. The only real down side is it rarely gets to draw Prizes. The most I’ve ever taken with it was three, and usually I don’t even get one.
Don’t use the Base Set Pigeotto though. The vending one stalls much better since sends all energy attached to the Defending Pokemon back to their player’s hand, fits with the theme nicely too.
Mantidactyle
If you use Japanese cards, you could play Vending Gengar instead of Machamp, since it sends back an opponent’s Pokémon with its power.
I made a one-turn kill deck on Pokémon Card GB2 which wins on turn 2 or 3 using Gengar + Pidgeot, with DCE / Breeder / Oak / Bill / Bill’s Teleporter / Challenge / Search / Item Finder / Computer Error / Moon Stone / Nightly Garbage Run / Recycle / Impostor Oak’s Revenge.
MarxForever
Oh, I would definitely use that Gengar if he didn’t cost about 65 dollars. He’s got probably the best Gengar artwork in the entire TCG, even if he is haunting what Duck Tales and Captain Planet thought the inside of a computer looked like, for some reason….
I haven’t even gotten my first one yet, though. I keep hoping against hope that maybe someday I’ll see a lot of all five Trading Campaign cards for less than 100 dollars, especially since most of them are ugly as sin.
Sounds like a neat deck though. Maybe I’ll give it a try next time I play. But for some reason the A.I. never accepts the Challenge in that game, so that’s why I don’t use it. Seems a little broken to me to have eight Bills :P.
Mantidactyle
That’s why you play it, it’s 4 additional Bill in your deck against the AI
MarxForever
It’s really bad though, even if both benches are full, the game will still decline the challenge and give you two cards. I can understand that it’s a Game Boy cart and there’s limited memory, hence why the Base Set Electrode and Fossil Ditto got left out entirely. But still, they couldn’t at least make it deny you the draw in a scenario where it wouldn’t have to do anything but put “accept”?
Besides, I try not too take too much advantage of A.I. hiccups in games. It’s like in Smash Bros. Sure, I could make the computer kill itself over and over again, just by moving to a certain location. But what’s the fun in that?
Mantidactyle
If both benches are full, you draw 2 cards even against a real opponent, it’s in the card text :P
MarxForever
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You win this round.
Dark Kira
Porydonk uses the same wincon, just more efficiently^^
On turn 1 you use as many Seekers as your opponent has benched Pokemon, then you attack with Drifblim · Undaunted (UD) #12 to remove their last Pokemon from the game. Makes playing Unlimited pretty (un)fun depending on which side of the deck you are.
Dark Kira
Porydonk uses the same wincon, just more efficiently^^
On turn 1 you use as many Seekers as your opponent has benched Pokemon, then you attack with Drfiblim UD to remove their last Pokemon from the game. Makes playing Unlimited pretty (un)fun depending on which side of the deck you are.
MarxForever
I’m not too terribly familiar with many of the newer cards or strategies, but what with the Power Creep in Pokemon, I’m not at all surprised to here that there are faster versions of just about every one of the original cards and sets. Especially since I keep seeing the same cards remade sometimes with different faces. I mean, it’s one thing if you want to just keep upgrading Ampharos Conductivity over and over again with stronger attacks (wow, they’re not even trying to hide the power creep), or remake base set Alakazam, but at least make it an Alakazam. Oh right, I forgot some two bit fraud tried to sue Nintendo, with some idiotic claim, and FAILED, so we can never see Kadabra’s face again, ever! Hmm… I think I’m getting off track here.
Anyways, I looked up the Deck you mentioned and I can see why people who would employ such a strategy are…let’s be nice and say formidable. But I don’t get why they would make a card that ignores the supporter rule, in the first place. When they are constantly leaning on that rule to avoid game breaking abuse.
This isn’t a bad design choice, this is just straight up not giving a damn.