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Mimikyu

Guardians Rising / #58/145

Mimikyu

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Guardians Rising
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Megumi Mizutani
Source reference
sm2-58

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The Pokémon’s story

Mimikyu has made itself a Pikachu costume to look less frightening. Yet the disguise does not dispel its mystery: its true appearance remains unknown, and one entry recounts the fatal shock of a scholar who looked underneath. Usually calm and solitary, it becomes violently agitated if someone tries to lift its cloth. Its wish to appear less frightening is thus protected by a boundary it refuses to let others cross.

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

A detail worth noticing

The Pokédex entries do not all describe the same fate for those who looked beneath Mimikyu's disguise. Sun mentions a death caused by fear; Shield reports a mysterious illness affecting a researcher. Both accounts emphasise the danger without revealing the appearance concealed by the cloth.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Psychic
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
778
Retreat cost
1 Energy

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

Its actual appearance is unknown. A scholar who saw what was under its rag was overwhelmed by horror and died of the shock.

Attacks

Filch

Cost: Colorless

Draw 2 cards.

Copycat

Cost: Psychic · Colorless

If your opponent’s Pokémon used an attack that isn’t a GX attack during their last turn, use it as this attack.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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