More “Paradox Rift” English Cards Revealed, Gholdengo ex’s Attack Translated to Match Video Games

More cards have been revealed from our Paradox Rift set! It will release on November 3rd.

As posted before, the set will be a combination of cards from Japan’s Raging Surf and Ancient Roar & Future Flash. The latter is still being revealed in Japan right now.

In the first PokeBeach podcast we discussed a curious issue with how Gholdengo ex’s attack name would be translated.

The TCG featured an attack name called “Gold Rush” on Alolan Dugtrio from Ultra Prism (named the same way in English and Japanese). This same attack name was later used in the video games as the new signature move for Gholdengo, but in English it was localized to “Make it Rain.”

This meant the TCG would either need to translate Gholdengo ex’s attack name as “Gold Rush” to keep it consistent with Alolan Dugtrio or just ignore it and rename the attack to “Make it Rain” to tie the attack name to the video games. The TCG has chosen the latter, which could cause some very rare compatibility issues where you compare the attack names of cards. But I think they made the right decision!