Card text
EX Sandstorm print
Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon and put them onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward. You may switch Dunsparce with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now
Paralyzed.
Celestial Storm and Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic prints
Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck. If you put any Pokémon onto your Bench in this way, you may switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now
Paralyzed.
Pokédex data (Celestial Storm print)
It digs into the ground with its tail and makes a mazelike nest. It can fly just a little.
尻尾で 地面を 掘って 迷路のような 巣穴を 作る。 羽で 少しだけ 飛べる。
e-Reader data
Initial EX Sandstorm prints have the ID I-26-#. The Dot Code strip contains Pokédex information, a TCG glossary snippet, and a brief area summary for Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Pokédex data
When spotted, this Pokémon escapes backward by furiously boring into the ground with its tail.
Release information
Trivia
- The EX Sandstorm print of Dunsparce's Strike and Run attack was mistranslated, allowing the player to switch Dunsparce out even if they had not put down at least one Benched Pokémon that turn. A 2004 Pokémon USA ruling doubled down on this mistake, claiming that this was indeed an intended functionality.[1] When the Celestial Storm print correctly translated the attack, rather than amend the 2004 mistake, Organized Play claimed that the Celestial Storm reprint of Dunsparce was not an exact reprint on the basis of its Strike and Run attack, thus affirming the original mistranslation as late as 2018.[2]
Origin
- This card's e-Reader Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Gold.
- This card's Celestial Storm Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Y; however, the word shippo (tail) is formatted in kanji (尻尾) on the Japanese card, instead of in kana (しっぽ) as in Pokémon Y.
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