Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX (Unified Minds 35)

Slowpoke & Psyduck

ヤドン&コダックGX Yadon & KoduckGX

Regular print
Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita

Evolution stage

Basic Pokémon

Card name

Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX

Type

Water

HP

250

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	Unified Minds
Rarity
English card no.	35/236
Japanese expansion	Miracle Twin
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	011/094

English expansion	Unified Minds
Rarity
English card no.	217/236
Japanese expansion	Miracle Twin
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	095/094

English expansion	Unified Minds
Rarity
English card no.	218/236
Japanese expansion	Miracle Twin
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	096/094

English expansion	Unified Minds
Rarity
English card no.	239/236
Japanese expansion	Miracle Twin
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	107/094

For more information on the Pokémon depicted on this card, see Slowpoke and Psyduck.

Slowpoke & Psyduck (Japanese: ヤドン&コダックGX Yadon & KoduckGX) is a Water-type Basic TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX card. It is part of the Unified Minds expansion.

Card text

TAG TEAM

	Ditch and Splash ^{[create category]} ぽいぽいスプラッシュ	40×

Discard any number of Supporter cards from your hand. This attack does 40 damage for each card you discarded in this way.

	Thrilling Times-GX ^{[create category]} どきどきタイムGX	10+

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 100 more damage. If this Pokémon has at least 6 extra Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack's cost), flip 10 coins instead, and this attack does 100 more damage for each heads. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

TAG TEAM rule
When your TAG TEAM is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

Release information

This card was included as a Regular card, a Full Art card, a Special Full Art card, and as a Secret Rainbow Rare in the Unified Minds expansion, first released in the Japanese Miracle Twin expansion. The Regular print features artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita, the Full Art and Rainbow Rare prints feature artwork by ConceptLab, while the Special Full Art print features artwork by Miki Tanaka.

Gallery

Regular print
Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita

Full Art print
Illus. ConceptLab

Special Full Art print
Illus. Miki Tanaka

Rainbow Rare print
Illus. ConceptLab

Trivia

Atsushi Nagashima, the game director of the TCG, stated the pairing of Slowpoke and Psyduck had been considered since the inital concept of TAG TEAM cards.^[1] This would have been during the Black & White Series.^[2] Mitsuhiro Arita, the illustrator of the card's Regular print, was intrigued by the idea of a powerful card based on unassuming Pokémon, and described the artwork as evoking a beach ball.^[3]

Origin

References

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

[1] Exclusive: Pokemon TCG Explains Pokemon Tag Team Pairings in Unified Minds Expansion, ComicBook.com

[2] Pokémon World Championships 2023 Interview: "I Know Where The Meta Is Going To Go", Screen Rant

[3] "People come up to me and say that's still their favourite Pokemon card": Mitsuhiro Arita reflects on 20 years of Pokemon's strangest and most iconic designs, GamesRadar+

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