Chip-Chip Ice Axe: Sun & Moon - Unbroken Bonds Chip-Chip Ice Axe itself isn't absurdly powerful alone, but it was banned from the Pokmon Trading Card Game in the 2019 attempt to lower the power of 'hand control' decks that would focus on removing all of an opponent's options instead of playing more proactive cards
Red has plenty of solid ways to grow this card and begin slinging Lightning Bolts or higher the next turn, especially when paired with white
Thanks to its high ATK, this starts a battle of attrition where players can easily be worn down trying to defend against
Each time a Normal Spell Card is activated, inflict 1000 damage to your opponent immediately after it resolves
This is because of the fact that it plays no tribute monsters
Before it, you needed a weird four-card Expanded combo (Eternatus VMAX, Weavile-GX, Darkrai-GX and Kecleon CRE) to achieve this result