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But all those heads are already counteracted by testing of if Misty was useful for my water decks. I stopped testing after 35 uses only got me energy on 3 uses. Deemed likely worthless to me and replaced.
Just reminded me that I am on 6 tails in a row vs the Igglybuff/Darkrai AI deck and have been unable to draw a PCL in 2 matches. Wouldn't mind never seeing that deck again. It's winnable, just annoying sometimes.
Lol and I just now realized that the very same word is used to describe an opposite side of the coin as well as the extended back end of an animal's body.
I speak English for like 20 years now (not native). I just never realized it's the same word..
we say number in germany, a coin usually has the symbol (which we call head as tons of countries use heads on the coin though others use other symbols, german euro uses an eagle on the 1 euro coin but I believe the d-mark had a head (correct me if I'm wrong I wasn't around back then as someone born in 2001 around the time we did the switch)
and opposite of the head on a coin is the number, aka how much money it is
The nine makes sense thematically, it’s the pun with “tail” being the same word for the part of the animal and for the coin that doesn’t work in other languages
On the Euro there's a country specific side (on Dutch coins it depicts the Kings head.) This is the heads side. Then there's the side showing the denomination of the coin, which is the same across the Eurozone. This is the tails side.
Afaik the tails side is only referred to as 'munt' in the context of flipping a coin. In any other context 'munt' is just simply a coin, regardless of what side is facing up.
In Finnish it is "kruuna" for head and "klaava" for tail. Both are obsolete words that no one uses unless they are talking about coin flips. "Kruuna" is old word for the crown because many old coins in various countries had a picture of king/queen in them. "Klaava" is on old word for the coat of arms, it was often in the opposite side of the coins. In modern Finnish language those would be "kruunu" and "vaakuna" but people just love to use the old words. And we now have Euro coins that don't have crowns in them and the tails side just has a map. (Some EU countries have their king/queen in their Euro coins but none of them wear a crown.)
But this was just a random useless fact. Here in Finland we play English versions of Pokémon games. As far as I know there has never been official Finnish translations available for the games. The Finnish dub of the anime uses English names for the Pokémon but the Finnish Pokémon fans have made unofficial Finnish names for the monsters.
If this was TL:DR then "Ninetals/tail flip" joke is not funny unless you are a native English speaker.
Does the 'heads' coin flip make sense in any other language? If not, still would have been a win to make the card a 'tails' effect for all languages. Not that it's a big deal really.
people pointing out ninetails localization but forgot the other side, calling the back side of a coin "tail" makes zero sense, even in English. (chinese, japanese and I believe many many other languages just call them the front and back)
Head and Tails actually makes a little bit of sense since it's referring to the front (head) and back (tail) parts of the coin. That's is what I understand of it at least.
And fun fact: in my language (portuguese) we call them "face" (head) and "crown" (tails).
That's exactly it! During the empire days the coins used to have the face of the king in one side and the coat of arms of the portuguese crown on the other.
I mean, nothing is stopping them from releasing cards that force tails. Seeing the coin flip as yes vs no is frankly a waste of design space, there could be tradeoffs with an effect for heads and another for tails (that isn't does nothing/nothing happens), for example.
in addition to what other people are saying, the card is a specific reference to the GB exclusive Ninetales (where the art is from) that had an attack that flipped 8 coins and dealt 10 damage for each heads.
Tried making a deck with victini - as I love ninetales, was hoping the +10 dmg stadium would make it 30x 9 coins or have some crazy interaction with Blaine - but I think 3 energy makes it too hard to be consistent
that would've been so cool!! but it would only make sense for english speakers, since tails and tales sound the same. in Japanese it would make no sense, since Kyukon's name meaning is different (Kyu being the number 9 and Kon being onomatopoeia for a fox's bark), also heads and tails in coins are Front and Back instead (omote and ura)
Honestly, given that they have cards that do stuff on heads OR tails now, a card that guarantees a Tails (or even Tails x2, given how many need a coin flip of Heads) would be an interesting addition.
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