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Registeel

SM Black Star Promos / #SM75/248

Registeel

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
SM Black Star Promos
Rarity (source)
Promo
Illustrator
Mitsuhiro Arita
Source reference
smp-SM75

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Registeel has a body made of unknown material, tougher than known metals yet flexible enough to change shape. Analyses describe it as hollow without explaining what it eats. The Pokédex also recalls that humans once imprisoned it. Its origin remains disputed: some stories place its metal on another planet, while another entry mentions its birth in the Earth's mantle.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Alpha Sapphire proposes an extraterrestrial origin for Registeel's metal. Pokémon Shield instead reports a birth in the Earth's mantle. Both explanations coexist in the Pokédex; neither justifies presenting its origin as established.

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Card details

HP
130
Type (source)
Metal
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
379
Retreat cost
3 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fire ×2
Resistance (source)
Psychic -20

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

Tempered by pressure underground over tens of thousands of years, its body cannot be scratched.

Attacks

Turbo Arm

Cost: Metal

Damage: 30

Attach a basic Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

Iron Hand

Cost: Metal · Metal · Colorless

Damage: 90

If Regice is on your Bench, heal 30 damage from this Pokémon.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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