Unbroken Bonds / #41/214

Tentacruel

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Unbroken Bonds
Rarity (source): Uncommon
Illustrator: Shigenori Negishi
Source reference: sm10-41

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The Pokémon’s story

Tentacruel hunts with eighty tentacles that extend and retract like a net. It weakens prey with toxins and uses the red orbs on its head to emit ultrasound. Those same orbs flash when it wants to warn its kind. The Pokédex describes a sea hunter whose lights are not decorative: they play a part in capture and group communication.

Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Ultra Moon describes Tentacruel's red orbs as a signaling system between its kind. Pokémon Sword warns that an intense glow announces ultrasound. Watching these orbs can therefore reveal a social alert or the start of an attack.

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Card details

HP: 100
Type (source): Water
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Tentacool
Pokédex number: 73
Retreat cost: 1 Energy
Weakness (source): Grass ×2

Printed card text — English

Quoted source text is retained in the card’s printed language so this exact printing can be identified. The CarDex background above is translated into English.

Description from the source

It fires off ultrasonic waves from its red orbs to weaken its prey, and then it wraps them up in its 80 tentacles.

Attacks

Wicked Tentacles

Cost: Colorless

Move an Energy from 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon to another of their Pokémon. If you do, put 3 damage counters on the Pokémon you moved the Energy to.

Wrap

Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 60

Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Documented variants

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Normal
normal · standard

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