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Magikarp

FireRed & LeafGreen / #67/112

Magikarp

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
FireRed & LeafGreen
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Atsuko Nishida
Source reference
ex6-67

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The Pokémon’s story

It is easy to see Magikarp as nothing more than a small Pokémon swept along by the current. Its reputation for weakness invites people to underestimate it, as though its future amounted only to its present difficulties. Yet it can evolve into Gyarados. This transformation casts its beginnings in a different light: behind the creature that barely attracts notice lies a far more impressive possibility, still invisible at first glance.

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

A detail worth noticing

Ascension searches for a card that evolves from this Magikarp and puts it directly onto Magikarp, counting as Evolution. Surprise Attack, its other attack, deals 10 damage unless the coin lands tails. Evolving is an attack's effect here; the only direct hit depends on a flip.

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Card details

HP
30
Type (source)
Water
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
129
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Lightning ×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.

Attacks

Surprise Attack

Cost: Colorless

Damage: 10

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.

Ascension

Cost: Water · Colorless

Search your deck for a card that evolves from Magikarp and put it on Magikarp. (This counts as evolving Magikarp.) Shuffle your deck afterward.

Documented variants

Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · energy · standard
  • normal · rarity-error · standard
  • reverse · rarity-error · energy · standard

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