Southern Islands / #4/18

Togepi

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Southern Islands
Rarity (source): Common
Illustrator: Keiko Fukuyama
Source reference: si1-4

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Togepi turns happy emotions into a resource. The compassion and joy it receives fuel its energy; it then stores this happiness in its shell to share. Its smile takes on another meaning in light of this story. Beneath the appearance of a little moving egg, it embodies an exchange in which care given can return to others.

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

A detail worth noticing

A proverb reported in Pokémon Silver promises happiness to anyone who can make a sleeping Togepi stand up. Here the Pokédex conveys a tradition of the Pokémon world, rather than a proven property of its shell or an evolution technique.

Sources for this background

Pokédex — background source

Card details

HP: 40
Type (source): Colorless
Stage (source): Basic
Pokédex number: 175
Retreat cost: 1 Energy
Resistance (source): Psychic -30

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

This Pokémon is still immature. When threatened, it releases poison from its head and tries to drive its enemies away.

Attacks

Bawl

Cost: Colorless

Damage: 10

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Documented variants

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Reverse
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