New Battle Strength Deck cards and promos exposed

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  • Friday, March 4, 2011

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Terrakion's TCG debut

In the official Pokémon Card Database's weekly update, a plethora of new cards from the three Battle Strength Decks were revealed, as well as a few other promotions.

The commercial for the Battle Strength Decks, due for release March 18, was posted on the official site. The commercial revealed fifteen of the approximate 50 cards from the decks, such as Sigilyph, Zorua, and Joltik. Each deck contains about fourteen cards, and feature Virizion, Terrakion, and Cobalion. Below is a gallery and known translations for the newly shown card. The commercial can be viewed below.

Gallery

Translations

Zoroark

Darkness-attack.png Fury Swipes
みだれひっかき
20×
Flip 3 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.
Darkness-attack.pngColorless-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Night Daze
ナイトバースト
80
Currently unknown

Galvantula

Colorless-attack.png Gnaw
かじる
20
Lightning-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Stun Needle
しびればり
30
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Darmanitan

Colorless-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Rock Smash
いわくだき
20+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.
Fire-attack.pngFire-attack.pngColorless-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Fire Punch
ほのおのパンチ
70
Currently unknown

Virizion

Grass-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Giga Drain
ギガドレイン
30
Remove from Virizion the number of damage counters equal to the damage you did to the Defending Pokémon.
Grass-attack.pngGrass-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Sacred Sword
せいなるつるぎ
100
During your next turn, Virizion can't use Sacred Sword.

Terrakion

Fighting-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Rock Smash
ロックスマッシュ
40
Fighting-attack.pngFighting-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Sacred Sword
せいなるつるぎ
100
During your next turn, Terrakion can't use Sacred Sword.

Cobalion

Metal-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Metal Horn
メタルホーン
30
Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon.
Metal-attack.pngMetal-attack.pngColorless-attack.png Sacred Sword
せいなるつるぎ
100
During your next turn, Cobalion can't use Sacred Sword.

Bianca

Draw from your deck until you have 6 cards in your hand

Commercial

By pidgiwiki


Known card list

Virizion Strength Deck

Card No. Card Name Type
Basculin Water-attack.png
Cottonee Grass-attack.png
Darumaka Fire-attack.png
Darmanitan Fire-attack.png
013/014 Virizion Grass-attack.png
014/014 Bianca Su

Terrakion Strength Deck

Card No. Card Name Type
Sigilyph Psychic-attack.png
Joltik Lightning-attack.png
Galvantula Lightning-attack.png
Gothita Psychic-attack.png
Great Ball G
013/014 Terrakion Fighting-attack.png

Cobalion Strength Deck

Card No. Card Name Type
Klang Metal-attack.png
Lillipup Colorless-attack.png
Zorua Darkness-attack.png
Zoroark Darkness-attack.png
Cheren Su
008/014 Energy Search G
013/014 Cobalion Colorless-attack.png


Alternate artwork promos
Deck boxes

In addition to the deck cards, CoroCoro has announced a promotional campaign in their April issue. One thousand sets of alternate artwork Terrakion, Virizion, and Cobalion cards will be awarded to subscribers who enter. In addition to these cards, one thousand different winners will win exclusive deck boxes featuring the Musketeer trio. The Open Challenge promo for the month of March was also shown to be a non holographic reprint of Zorua from the Journey Partners promotional set.

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