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{C} → Bind
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
{C}{C} → Rock Smash : 10+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 20 more damage.
illus. Ken Sugimori
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re:Bind – Trapinch wasn’t capable of learning Bind at the time this card was printed, which isn’t an uncommon phenomenon, but I note at the same time that until this card, Bind had never shown up in the TCG as an attack that didn’t do at least 10 damage. It might actually still be the only instance of plain old Bind that isn’t doing some amount of damage.
re:Rock Smash – This is the debut of Rock Smash for the English edition of the TCG. It had previously appeared in Pokémon VS, on Bruno’s Steelix (VS), as well as an e-Card era Promo we only later on got as POP1 Pupitar.
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(Actually, it’s misleading on my part to call that Pupitar an e-Card promo. The T Promos started off during e-Card but kept going into ADV, and they changed their card templates accordingly. It’d be like suggesting all of the WOTC promos are Classic-era cards.)