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Poké-BODY ⇢ Anti-Lightning
You can’t attach {L} Energy cards from your hand to Zapdos.
{C} → Plasma : 10
If there are any {L} Energy cards in your discard pile, flip a coin. If heads, attach 1 of them to Zapdos.
{L}{L}{C}{C} → Lightning Storm : 60
Flip a coin. If tails, put 2 damage counters on Zapdos.
illus. Hajime Kusajima
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Nosredna
Notice how this Poke-Body isn’t called “Lighting Immunity” because it’s in fact weak to lightning!
Ambassador
All three Poké-Bodies for the e-Card birds were originally “Anti”s in the JP edition (i.e. Anti-Lightning, Anti-Water, Anti-Flame). The reason for the discrepancy can probably be chalked up to them being in different sets; either someone else did the Skyridge (Articuno, Moltres) translations than did the work for Aquapolis (Zapdos), or that person forgot, or with WOTC finding out they’d lost the contract they decided they didn’t really care.
No Name
In Gen 1, all three of the legendary birds were weakness-free. In Gen 2, they decided that no legendaries are above the law: the legendary dogs never got weakness-free cards.
Burma
Insanely cool art. Stunning.