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{W} → Gold Scale
Your opponent may draw 2 cards. Either way, you may draw 2 cards.
{P} → Dragon Bond
Search your deck for a card named Gyarados, Dark Gyarados, or Shining Gyarados. Show it to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
· Shining rule: You can’t have more than 1 Shining Magikarp in your deck.
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An underpowered, pathetic Pokémon. It may jump high on rare occasions, but never more than seven feet.
Curtis
My super secret tech in my unlimited Gyarados SF deck.
coolestman22
Is that legit? Does it count as a karp if it’s discarded?
Curtis
No. It isn’t named Magikarp.
jelze
Good find. Only difficulty is getting it back after a Gyarados dies. How do you deal with that?
WilliamH.
Only 1 in your deck? Wow!
“Dragon Bond” would be an amazing attack if it evolved like “Ascension”.
MarxForever
I think Dragon Bond was suppose to be a way of sort doubling your odds of getting a Shining Gyardos out quickly.
MarxForever
I still don’t get why Gold Scale lets your opponent draw too, a colorless on Kangaskahn let you draw one card so it stands to reason that a specific energy on a shinning should let you draw two. You can’t even combo it with Imposter Professor Oak like you can with Erika.
Now, if Gold Scale was a Pokemon Power? That would’ve been pretty nifty, and explain why you both get to draw.
Benjamin Poke Battler
got it, too rare to battle with though :C
Ambassador
This card has a subtle mistranslation – Gold Scale should allow each player to draw *up to* 2 cards;
おたがいのプレイヤーは、のぞむなら、それぞれの山札からカードを最大2枚引いて、手札に加えてよい。
i.e. it’s perfectly fine to elect to draw just 1 card¹. As noted on Daydream Holic Night² (a blog I’m going to remember to check more regularly to spare myself duplication of efforts digging up what’s already been established), this seems to be a deliberate choice of words for the JP print at a time a lot of other Japanese text was choosing to go with a more blunt “draw X” vs. “draw up to X”, so this mistranslation is an oversight. It is, of course, one that makes it into the 100% faithful Celebrations print, alongside even more grotesque mistranslations, like CEL Charizard being obligated to print the same horrendous “translation” of Energy Burn that BS Charizard had.
¹ There’s also a difference in that the original text of the card doesn’t specify who decides first, but save some kind of milling situation, it’s not crucially important.
² http://blog.livedoor.jp/aqwsderft/archives/50635507.html || https://archive.is/P0cOp