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- ↓ 26.92
- ꩜ 48.83
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{G} → Agility : 10
Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all effects of an attack, including damage, done to Scyther ex during your opponent’s next turn.
{G}{G}{C} → Slash : 50
· Pokémon-ex rule: When Pokémon-ex has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Quarter-Turn
What is this, an 80 HP ex? Now, that can’t have ever been good.
WilliamH.
Has there ever been a good Scyther card?
Quarter-Turn
Are you kidding? Jungle Scyther was one of the best cards of the format at the time.
WilliamH.
So only the original Scyther? What about since then?
Quarter-Turn
Since then, Scyther got an evolution.
WilliamH.
Doh! Well that explains that.
You sound just like a good buddy of mine. We were playing the VG and he said, “I don’t consider Electrabuzz and Magmar to be as amazing as they used to be, seeing how as they are both weak Stage 1’s now.” I was shocked but, he’s correct!
Brian Duddy
Original ex’s were – heh – actually balanced. This wasn’t very good, though.
DLD493v2
This was the first Pokemon card I ever pulled, and what single-handedly got me into Pokemon.
Ambassador
Welcome to the beginning of the end of the e-TCG and dot code technology! When we left off, the Japanese sets Split Earth and Mysterious mountain, which used ID card codes E-##-# and F-##-#, respectively, were combined to form Skyridge for the English TCG. We now return to EX Ruby & Sapphire, which uses ID codes G-##-# and H-##-#. When ordered by ID number, G-02-# Treecko is the first card in this set. So where’s G-01-#?
Probably this Scyther 𝑒𝑥. While they don’t have any IDs printed on the Japanese cards, every card in the English EX R&S set with a G-##-# ID comes from the Half Decks released alongside the ‘Expansion Pack’ set in Japan. By simple deduction, it is reasonable to conclude that Scyther 𝑒𝑥 is G-01-#, even though the ID is not printed on the card. The ID is omitted, presumably, since no holofoil cards were ever printed with dot codes on them, but it of course begs the question as to why the ID was assigned to it at all.
By the way, there are two other ‘skipped’ G-##-# ID numbers. It appears that Magmar 𝑒𝑥 is the missing G-07-#, and Lapras 𝑒𝑥 is the missing G-13-#. It gets a little better for the next couple sets – EX Sandstorm and EX Dragon don’t have any skipped numbers, if I remember correctly, but EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua has, at the bare minimum, 60 skipped ID numbers.