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  8. TwylisSquirtleGlasses

    This is the case with a lot of gen I art, which often depict small animals like birds, fish, crabs, and butterflies. There’s also non-TCG promotional art depicting a dog, even, and references to Indian elephants have persisted in Gastly and Raichu’s dex entries even into Sun and Moon. Plus many instances in the anime.

    My stance is that real-life animals were originally intended to co-exist with pokemon early in the franchise, but gradually got abandoned in favor of an all-pokemon world as more species were created. Aside from “environmental” animals like coral and starfish, real-life animals pretty much never show up anymore.

    Bulbapedia has an article covering the topic:
    https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world

  16. Prof. Joel1007Nosredna

    Q. Is Dark Dugtrio’s Sinkhole Pokémon Power cumulative in any way? For example, you have 2 Dark Dugtrios in play, does a retreating Defending Pokémon have to flip twice (once per each Dark Dugtrio in play) and suffer 20 damage per tails, or does it flip once and risk 40 damage (20 per Dark Dugtrio)? Or are it just one flip and 20 damage regardless of how many Dark Dugtrios you have in play? And if does involve multiple coin flips, do you stop after the retreating Pokémon first takes damage, or continue flipping for each Dark Dugtrio in question?
    A. They are cumulative. You would flip for each Dugtrio’s effect, whether any succeed or not. (May 4, 2000 WotC Chat, Q20)

  23. Twylis

    This art is a great example of how weird Greninja’s eyelids are. It seems to have two sets – the solid blue set of eyelids that are normally visible, in addition to a transparent set that it can close independently. This is in line with the eyes of many real-life animals, frogs included, which use their second set of eyelids to protect their eyes when underwater. I think this is the only time it’s been shown with both eyelid sets at once though!

  40. Weird Al

    Interesting factoid: the mascots of Gen 1 games (Red, Blue, Yellow and Green) were the only game mascots that got VMAX cards in the TCG. You could count Rayquaza as a game mascot, but the other two Gen 3 mascots didn’t get VMAX cards.

  44. rick barfunkleBob

    Oddly enough, this card is super good in limited/draft formats. My friends and I were playing a mutant BST draft and as a stage 1 free-retreater with a 1 for 70 attack, it was kind of a problem!

  54. Nosfeyblade

    Almost a decade later, I just want to say that the attack isn’t really too bad, since the Bronzong in this very set has an attack that is basically that proposed idea, but factoring their Retreat instead of yours. The fact that Bronzor has any synergy with that strategy is a nice bonus.

  56. NosINTERNETFRIEND

    That’s probably true, given that all of the non-rock type ground types in the first generation were a bit faster (Dugtrio being a true speedster). Though looking at those early cards, Dugtrio had a retreat of 2 and Sandslash a retreat of 1. Maybe we’re reading a bit too deep into the card design here.