New Battle Strength Deck cards and promos exposed

Those featured include Zoroark, Darmanitan, and Bianca

Friday, March 4, 2011

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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.

Terrakion's TCG debut

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

New Zoroark card
New Galvantula card
New Darmanitan card
Klang card shown
Sigilyph card shown
Basculin card shown
Nine other included cards
Virizion
Terrakion
Cobalion

Translations

Zoroark

	Fury Swipes みだれひっかき	20×
Flip 3 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.

	Night Daze ナイトバースト	80
Currently unknown

Galvantula

	Gnaw かじる	20

	Stun Needle しびればり	30
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Darmanitan

	Rock Smash いわくだき	20+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.

	Fire Punch ほのおのパンチ	70
Currently unknown

Virizion

	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.

	Sacred Sword せいなるつるぎ	100
During your next turn, Virizion can't use Sacred Sword.

Terrakion

	Rock Smash ロックスマッシュ	40

	Sacred Sword せいなるつるぎ	100
During your next turn, Terrakion can't use Sacred Sword.

Cobalion

	Metal Horn メタルホーン	30
Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon.

	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
	Cottonee
	Darumaka
	Darmanitan
013/014	Virizion
014/014	Bianca	Su

Terrakion Strength Deck

Card No.	Card Name	Type
	Sigilyph
	Joltik
	Galvantula
	Gothita
	Great Ball	G
013/014	Terrakion

Cobalion Strength Deck

Card No.	Card Name	Type
	Klang
	Lillipup
	Zorua
	Zoroark
	Cheren	Su
008/014	Energy Search	G
013/014	Cobalion

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.