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- ↓ 9.37
- ꩜ 13.63
- ↑ 24.99
{D}{C} → Payback : 40+
If your opponent has only 1 Prize card left, this attack does 40 damage plus 40 more damage and discard the top 3 cards from your opponent’s deck.
{F}{F}{D}{D} → Ground Burn : 80+
Each player discards the top card of his or her deck. This attack does 80 damage plus 20 more damage for each Energy card discarded in this way.
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If it rampages, it knocks down mountains and buries rivers. Maps must be redrawn afterward.
reshikrom64
I tried this as a one-of in my Unlimited Dark Dragonite+Absol G Lv.X+Tyranitar SF deck. Freaking amazing late-game.
Blob Takeshi
Is Tyranitar the nuke Pokémon? I think it is given that description!
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This is the first time しっぺがえし is translated as “Payback” in the TCG, lining up with the fact しっぺがえし had just debuted in the video games Diamond and Pearl and English versions translated the attack as “Payback”. But the attack had actually already appeared in the TCG before its appearance in the games, as the attack “Spring Back’, which had appeared on Mudkip ✩, Torchic ✩, Treecko ✩, and Pikachu ✩.
The fact the functionality of the attack being retained, as well as the timing of their release, makes me think those cards were probably acting as a deliberate teaser of an attack that would show up in future games – the same way a number of Classic series cards had attacks that would appear in Pokémon Gold and Silver, games already being worked on at the same time cards such as such as BS Magikarp (Flail), FO Haunter (Nightmare), etc. came out.