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- ↓ 0.28
- ꩜ 0.41
- ↑ 2.40
{C} → Rollout : 10
{G}{G} → Sunbathe
Flip a coin. If heads, remove all damage counters from Sunkern. Search your deck for a card that evolves from Sunkern and attach that card to Sunkern. This counts as evolving Sunkern. Shuffle your deck afterward.
illus. Etsuya Hattori · LV.14
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It is very small and powerless. If attacked, the best it can do is flap its leaves in an attempt to frighten away its enemies.
feyblade
The developers should have written “either way” before “search your deck,” simply because the card is somewhat ambiguously written otherwise.
VulpineMiaou
Apocalypse Sunkern.
Ambassador
Etsuya Hattori’s only illustration that made it to the English edition of the TCG! (He would do 2 more cards for the VS set that released in Japan in 2001. I quite like the artwork on VS Lt. Surge’s Raichu!) After that, he shows up in the following credits;
– graphic design for 2003’s Pokémon Channel (GameCube game)
– special thanks in 2011’s Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure (DS game developed by Genius Sonority)
– artwork for 2011’s Pokémon Rumble Blast (3DS game developed by Ambrella)
– design for several designs in Pokémon Shirts (merchandise created in collaboration with TPC)
His sporadic credits kind of left it up in the air as to what his role in this all was – ex-Game Freak? freelancer? Nintendo employee??? – and the history still is a little curious, but Pokémon Shirts credits him as “Etsuya Hattori (The Pokémon Company)” so the relative present is accounted for. https://archive.ph/vDYdB
Twylis
Today I learned one of the two pokemon masks I own was designed by the artist of a card I’ve had since childhood :)