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Ability ⇢ Shell Survival
Put this Pokémon into play only with the effect of Ninjask’s Cast-Off Shell Ability. (When you are setting up to play, you cannot put it face down as your Active Pokémon or on your Bench.)
{C}{C}{C} → Life Squeeze
Put damage counters on your opponent’s Active Pokémon until its remaining HP is 10.
illus. Tomokazu Komiya
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A most peculiar Pokémon that somehow appears in a Poké Ball when a Nincada evolves.
Bagdude
Is this the first card art with a dead person?
secmec
Damn, I never saw that before
Louis Strasbourg
Has this card seen any use? It seems like the Standard equivalent of the old Raticate (Boundaries Crossed BCR 105) but with an extremely more complicated setup ploy. It might be worth it if the attack only cost C or CC, but CCC seems a very high energy cost for such a circumstantial setup.
Warnock 2022
It’s suddenly a lot more viable with the Pokemon GO Ditto…
Twylis
The new Pokemon Go Ditto is a lovely option to access this attack, but it’s worth noting that ability lock such as Alolan Muk‘s Power of Alchemy and Garbodor‘s Garbotoxin also help by disabling its ability so it can be played like a regular basic. That’s how Cosmic Eclipse Necrozma decks work!
Ditto might be the stronger approach though, since you can use damaging abilities to finish the job (though Alolan Muk at least allows Inteleon, Crobat, Ariados poison, etc to work)
I think the only real advantage Boundaries Crossed Raticate has is access to Triple Acceleration Energy.
Warnock 2022
Oh yeah that’s true. PHF Crobat and AOR Ariados are staples in Expanded!
LordAgwen
The Ditto from Boundaries Crossed works for this use too, except you don’t have to discard the Shedinja! Only disadvantage is the 30 HP you will get opposed to the 70 HP the Pokémon Go Ditto will have, but this will rarely matter because it is going to be OHKO’d anyways.
It would probably be a good idea to include both versions of Ditto, using the Boundaries Crossed version first to quickly get the attack off, and the Pokémon Go Ditto afterwards since the Shedinja would be in the discard now.