Team Rocket’s Ampharos Line Revealed, References EX Team Rocket Returns!

[Water Pokémon Master]

The daily reveals for The Glory of Team Rocket have commenced — Team Rocket’s Mareep, Flaaffy, and Ampharos have been revealed featuring Ariana! The set will release in Japan on April 18th and become part of May’s Destined Rivals.
Team Rocket’s Mareep – Lightning – HP60
Basic Pokemon
[C] Provision: Search your deck for an Item card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
[L] Petibolt: 10 damage.
Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Team Rocket’s...

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[Exo]

Jerky lets goooooo

 

[Fireball27]

Might be useful in prerelease

 

[Pompidumbreon]

destined rivals can see evolving skies already at the horizon: 'you can run, but you can't hide'

 

[Nyora]

Fun fact, the Team Rocket's Tyranitar in this set is also a reference to Dark Tyranitar

 

[koala cub]

in EX Team Rocket Returns, a single-prize ampharos was 120 HP. twenty years later, a single-prize ampharos is only 140 HP.

 

[SlumberingWeald]

So happy to get more Teeziro art in their regular style

 

[PkmnMstr10]

Might be useful in prerelease

Good luck getting the entire line tho.

 

[Oddish22]

The Ampharos would have deserved to be holographic. The last set upgraded some non-holo Japanese cards to holographic English cards, so maybe there is a chance.

 

[Hukutus]

Could be combined in GLC with Po Town for a total of 7 damage on evolve.

 

[Vertemes]

Team rockets mareep looks so derpy compared to everything else.

 

[Clav1]

fingers crossed it gets an IR fluffiest bois fr

 

[Zygarde Fan]

hear me out

 

[Yaginku]

in EX Team Rocket Returns, a single-prize ampharos was 120 HP. twenty years later, a single-prize ampharos is only 140 HP.

They cannot make money on cards that are relatively common.

 

[HammockBoy]

So Mewtwo ex gets more dangerous. I suspect that the seemingly mid amount of damage it does (although 280 is actually heaps considering it’s HP and that it is basic) will in time be shown to be a devastating attack. In this current example Dragapult can be one shotted by Mewtwo ex with Ampharos in play.

 

[Grim Thoughts]

Genuinely very cool callback, but this card is extremely garbage. Setting up a stage 2 to punish evolution with only 4 damage counters makes no sense. Just use Gravity Mountain, with Hawlucha if you really need 4 damage counters, not this clunky stage 2 line with an effect you can’t control. It’s even countered by effects like TM Evolution and Grand Tree. It’s hardly better than the 2 decade old card it’s referencing, despite the immense amount of power creep that has taken place since.

 

[LightYearLiam]

Wish they could've made it put on more damage counters if the Pokemon evolves into an ex or something. It's cool and I love the reference, but I doubt this will see play.

in EX Team Rocket Returns, a single-prize ampharos was 120 HP. twenty years later, a single-prize ampharos is only 140 HP.

The difference in power creep between 1-prize and 2-prize Pokemon is utterly staggering!

 

[GeorgieWorgiePP]

Genuinely very cool callback, but this card is extremely garbage. Setting up a stage 2 to punish evolution with only 4 damage counters makes no sense. Just use Gravity Mountain, with Hawlucha if you really need 4 damage counters, not this clunky stage 2 line with an effect you can’t control. It’s even countered by effects like TM Evolution and Grand Tree. It’s hardly better than the 2 decade old card it’s referencing, despite the immense amount of power creep that has taken place since.

You're discounting that this ability can pair with TM Devo, so you absolutely can control it to a degree. Is this a card that will be great by itself? I don't think so, but I can certainly see it be useful with other things. Devo, Uxie, Rocket Ttar...

 

[XYD]

hear me out
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Wish both of them are basics lol

 

[Myself :}]

in EX Team Rocket Returns, a single-prize ampharos was 120 HP. twenty years later, a single-prize ampharos is only 140 HP.

The ability and attacks are much better, making up for the lack of HP