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{P} → Pain Amplifier
Put a damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokémon that already has any damage counters on it.
{P}{P}{P} → Call of the Night : 40
Unless this attack Knocks Out the Defending Pokémon, flip 2 coins. If both of them are heads, your opponent shuffles his or her Active Pokémon and all cards attached to it into his or her deck.
illus. Ken Sugimori · LV.39
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MarxForever
Looking at this card’s background, one day, I noticed it’s actually pretty unique.
You can’t see it in this scan, but it’s actually a negative of a graveyard complete with Crucifixes.Typically Nintendo isn’t too keen on having real world religious references in their properties anyways, but it’s pretty common for U.S. censors to request that sort of stuff be edited out anyways. So the fact that this background wasn’t more heavily edited is interesting, to say the least.
However, form pictures I’ve found online (since I don’t own the Japanese version of this card yet, but it’s on my list now) it appears that the background isn’t a negative at all judging from the strong coloration. Of course, being a holographic, it’s hard to find decent pictures. Maybe making the image a Negative and was their way of trying to obscure the graveyard? But it is definitely still visible.
MarxForever
I took a quick shot of mine to show what I’m talking about.
As you can see from the Japanese one above, this background is much lighter, but you can clearly see the Crucifix I circled. And the camera didn’t really pick it up but there are also some gravestones to the left you can barely see.
MarxForever
Yeah, so I was going through a stack of Japanese cards I put in my dresser a little while ago. Turns out I do have the Japanese version of this card. I are observant XP. Whelp in the binder you go.
Anyways, yes Wizards did definitely alter this card’s background, because the original card does not a have the colors inverted and you can clearly see several gravestones, and even has a pretty nifty fog effect. So I think they actually went so far as to actually try to white them out.
Strč prst skrz krk
The art just isn’t the same without the spooky tombstones in the background…
100000Volts
CHEAP! CHEAP ARTWORK! I bet it only takes about 4 minutes to draw and color that gengar. Look at the eyes and mouth. It looks like it was just “stickered” to the body, doesn’t blend well.
Renirambus
This is the set 1 Sugimori Gengar from 1995.
Alex
It is indeed original Sugimori art, but wizards stretched the original japanese card image vertically to fit the card window. Compare EN / JP versions and you’ll see the EN is elongated.
Twylis
Baffling how Wizards would go the lengths to edit this background but not take the time to scale it properly with the US illustration box. The already-weird positioning is made so much worse by them stretching Gengar out so badly.
Alex
Spelling mistake on the first attck “Put a damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokémon “””””has””””” already has any damage counters on it.”
Should say “that”
Thanks for maintaining these pages!
Adam Capriola
Thanks for “that”—I’ve fixed this one. Thanks for your sharp eye!