First “Crimson Haze” Cards Revealed, Including Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onFeb 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM · 60 Comments

The first cards from Crimson Haze have just been revealed at Japan’s Championship League Fukuoka!

Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex – Colorless – HP260
Basic Pokemon

Ability: Elder’s Technique
This Pokémon’s Blood Moon attack costs 1 [C] less to use for each Prize card your opponent has already taken.

[C][C][C][C][C] Blood Moon: 240 damage. This Pokémon can’t attack during your next turn

Pokemon ex rule: When your Pokemon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 3

Scream Tail ex – Psychic – HP190
Basic Pokemon (Ancient)

[C] Sudden Shriek: You can use this attack only if you go second, and only during your first turn. During your opponent’s next turn, they can’t play any Supporter cards from their hand.

[P][C][C] Crunch: 120 damage. Discard an Energy from your opponent’s Active Pokémon.

Pokemon ex rule: When your Pokemon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Darkness (x2)
Resistance: Fighting (-30)
Retreat: 1

Iron Thorns ex – Lightning – HP230
Basic Pokemon (Future)

Ability: Initialize
While this Pokémon is in the Active Spot, Pokémon with a Rule Box in play (except any Future Pokémon) don’t have any Abilities.

[L][C][C] Bolt Cyclone: 140 damage. Move 1 Energy from this Pokémon to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

Pokemon ex rule: When your Pokemon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 4

Applin – Dragon – HP40
Basic Pokemon

[C] Find a Friend: Search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

[G][R] Rolling Tackle: 30 damage.

Weakness: none
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Dipplin – Dragon – HP80
Stage 1 – Evolves from Applin

[G][R] Candied Catcher: Switch in 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon to the Active Spot. This attack does 70 damage to the new Active Pokémon.

Weakness: none
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Phione – Water – HP70
Basic Pokemon

[C] Beckon: Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand.

[W] Energy Press: 20x damage. This attack does 20 damage for each Energy attached to your opponent’s Active Pokémon.

Weakness: Lightning (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Perrin – Trainer
Supporter

Reveal up to 2 Pokémon from your hand and shuffle them into your deck. Then, search your deck for up to that many Pokémon, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn.

Enhanced Hammer – Trainer
Item

Discard a Special Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn.

Community Center – Trainer
Stadium

Once during each player’s turn, if that player has already played a Supporter from their hand, they may heal 10 damage from each of their Pokémon.

This Stadium stays in play when you play it. Discard it if another Stadium comes into play. If a Stadium with the same name is in play, you can’t play this card.

Caretaker – Trainer
Supporter

Draw 2 cards. Then, if Community Center is in play, shuffle this Caretaker back into your deck.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn.

Lucky Helmet – Trainer
Pokemon Tool

If the Pokémon this card is attached to is in the Active Spot and is damaged by an attack from your opponent’s Pokémon (even if it is Knocked Out), draw 2 cards.

You may play as many Pokemon Tool cards as you like during your turn. Attach a Pokemon Tool to 1 of your Pokemon that doesn’t already have a Pokemon Tool attached.

Unfair Stamp – Trainer
Item (ACE SPEC)

You can play this card only if 1 of your Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn.

Each player shuffles their hand into their deck. Then, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 2 cards.

ACE SPEC: You can’t have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn.

Bloodmoon Ursaluna is a unique, individual Pokemon from The Teal Mask DLC. You can only capture one in the DLC, so it’s essentially an event Pokemon. While an Ursaring can evolve into an Ursaluna, you can’t evolve an Ursaring into Bloodmoon Ursaluna. This is because it’s a special Pokemon.

According to the games, an Ursaluna traveled from Hisui to Kitakami in the past and adapted to the region, eventually becoming Bloodmoon Ursaluna.

Crimson Haze will release in Japan on March 22nd. It and April’s Mask of Change will form our Twilight Masquerade set in May.

Thanks goes to JustInBasil and Toine L. for the card translations!

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So blood moon is basic ex radiant zard, scream tail is something about supporter cards (maybe cant be played by opponent next turn) and hair smash (120 discard energy from opponents active pokemon). t-tar is something that affects all rule box pokemon except future and the 140 and return 1 energy. rough translation idk
 
Unfair Stamp is fudging cracked. I’m glad they’re making Ace Specs that actually compete with Prime Catcher and Maximum Belt. Meanwhile, Iron Thorns ex with its Path ability is insane against all the top decks in Japan and Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex has the highest hp on a basic 2-prizer iirc, with a really good ability and attack (but it seems like it might by outclassed by RadZard in this format). Enhanced Hammer reprint is awesome and long overdue, and it will see a good amount of play. Lucky Helmet reprint is kinda interesting; it might see some scattered usage like in its previous format, especially because Arven makes it very easy to get and a draw support tool doesn’t really exist in the current format. Everything else is mid to bad.

I was hoping that Dipplin would get a good ability that would come in handy when it eventually evolves into Hydrapple, but oh well. I hope that an Applin-line deck becomes viable in the future at some point, because it’s the only evolutionary line that splits in three path, with two being stage 1 and the third being stage 2. That would be an interesting dynamic if, say, Dipplin had a draw ability, Hydrapple ex was a strong two-prize attacker, Flapple was a strong one-prize attacker, and Appletun had a unique support ability, or something like that.
 
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Unfair Stamp is fudging cracked. I’m glad they’re making Ace Specs that actually compete with Prime Catcher and Maximum Belt. Meanwhile, Iron Thorns ex with its Path ability is insane against all the top decks in Japan and Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex has the highest hp on a basic 2-prizer iirc, with a really good ability and attack (but it seems like it might by outclassed by RadZard in this format). Enhanced Hammer reprint is awesome and long overdue, and it will see a good amount of play. Lucky Helmet reprint is kinda interesting; it might see some scattered usage like in its previous format, especially because Arven makes it very easy to get and a draw support tool doesn’t really exist in the current format. Everything else is mid to bad.

I was hoping that Dipplin would get a good ability that would come in handy when it eventually evolves into Hydrapple, but oh well. I hope that an Applin-line deck becomes viable in the future at some point, because it’s the only evolutionary line that splits in three path, with two being stage 1 and the third being stage 2. That would be an interesting dynamic if, say, Dipplin had a draw ability, Hydrapple ex was a strong two-prize attacker, Flapple was a strong one-prize attacker, and Appletun had a unique support ability, or something like that.
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Exactly what I was feeling with the Applin line. I would love to see players rocking a Hydrapple deck in a similar box to something like current Gardevoir with how dynamic it gets inside the limits of one evolution tree.
 
I mentioned it on Twitter, but the Bear is perfect for forretress. An even better match than Forretress/wo-chien.
310 hp with charm, 360 with cape. Access to penny. And you can still play Wo-chien and shaymin, and iron leaves as a pivot/tech.

Deck doesn't seem bad at all.
 
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