Buy @ TCGplayerL: $0.27 — M: $0.75 — H: $1.49
Pinsir (Legend Maker LM 24)
Poké-BODY: Shining Horn
As long as Pinsir is the only Pokémon you have in play, your opponent’s Basic Pokémon can’t attack.
[C] Cry for Help
Search your deck for a [G] Pokémon (excluding Pokémon-ex), show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
[G][C] Overhead Toss: 30
Does 20 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
weakness: [R]×2
resistance:
retreat: 1
Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
Legend Maker — 24/92 — Rare
reshikrom64
I’ve just noticed that all the Basic Pokemon with the ‘Shining Horn’ Poke-Body have an attack that searches for and puts down a Basic. What’s the point??
Anonymous
Maybe it gives you a chance to set up when you’re about to run out of Pokemon…?
Adam Capriola
It’s pretty funny that this alone could take out like half the decks in the current format.
feyblade
A search for a hypnotoxic laser gives the opponent the Hobson’s Choice of allowing the poison to remain on Pinsir and deactivating the ability , though you would be hard pressed to knock out all four of them. That being said, it’s interesting how such a vicious “hate” effect was tame at the time but is brutal now. Goes to show you just how intensely the metagame can turn.
Adam Capriola
Good point. Throw in a Holon GL Energy and then you’d be set!
Curtis
The way I see it, you can afford to allow them to attack when necessary. Unless they run Sableye, play Dowsing Machine as their ACE Spec, or are playing an unlimited deck of their own with Junk Arm or Item Finder, they can only use 4 Lasers. A single Revive counters every other possible basic deck in this situation.