The latest new arrival for the museum is the fascinating and magnetic Probopass. This common card comes from a special Sword & Shield era release, the VSTAR & VMAX High-Class Deck, and features dynamic artwork that perfectly captures its unique nature as a creature of both rock and metal.
Card Details
- Pokémon Name: Probopass (ダイノーズ)
- Set: VSTAR & VMAX High-Class Deck Zeraora (sV-Z)
- Year: 2021
- Card Number: 079-108
- Rarity/Edition: Common
- Artist: takuyoo
- National Pokédex No.: 476
Card Text & Attacks
- Type: Metal
- HP: 150
- Evolves From: Nosepass
- Attack 1:
- Japanese: トリプルノーズ
- Romaji: Toripuru Nōzu
- English: Triple Nose
- Cost: [Metal][Colourless]
- Damage: 40x
- Effect: Flip 3 coins. This attack does 40 damage for each heads.
- Attack 2:
- Japanese: アイアンバスター
- Romaji: Aian Basutā
- English: Iron Buster
- Cost: [Metal][Metal][Colourless]
- Damage: 160
- Effect: During your next turn, this Pokémon can’t attack.
- Weakness: Fire x2
- Resistance: Grass -30
- Retreat Cost: [Colourless][Colourless][Colourless][Colourless]
- Pokédex Entry:
- Japanese: ３つの 小さな ユニットを 使い エサを とったり 敵と 戦う。 本体は ほぼ 命令するだけ。
- Romaji: 3-tsu no chīsana yunitto o tsukai esa o tottari teki to tatakau. Hontai wa hobo meirei suru dake.
- English: It uses its three small units to hunt for prey and battle enemies. The main body mostly just gives orders.
Collector’s Notes
This Probopass is a Common card from a special Japanese release, the VSTAR & VMAX High-Class Deck Zeraora, a ready-to-play competitive deck filled with powerful cards. The artwork by takuyoo is wonderfully chaotic, showing the main Probopass unit commanding its smaller “Mini-Nose” units amidst a storm of electrical energy and scrap metal.
This card is a fantastic and complex specimen for the Geological Pokémon collection. Probopass evolves from Nosepass (a pure Rock-type) into a Rock/Steel-type, a transition that is perfectly captured in the TCG. While its predecessor Nosepass is usually represented as a Fighting-type (the TCG’s home for Rock-types), this evolved form is represented as a pure Metal type. This shift represents the geological process of metallurgy—the extraction and refinement of metal from raw ore. Probopass is literally a living embodiment of this process, evolving from a simple magnetic rock into a creature that controls processed iron. Furthermore, its identity as the “Compass Pokémon” links it to the Earth’s magnetic field, a core concept in geophysics.
