Ripple Swell
If you have 6 Arceus in play and each of them is a different type, search your deck for up to 6 basic Energy cards. Attach each of those Energy cards to a different Pokémon you have in play. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Arceus / #AR5/99
Arceus
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Arceus
- Rarity (source)
- Rare
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Source reference
- pl4-AR5
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
In Sinnoh’s mythology, Arceus is said to have appeared as an Egg when nothing else existed. Accounts then credit it with creating the world and place it before the formation of the universe itself. The Pokédex reports these versions as traditions without presenting their chronology as an observed fact. This place at the origin of all things explains why Arceus holds a unique role in the region’s stories.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon X explicitly names Sinnoh’s mythology as the source of the account of Arceus’s Egg. Pokémon Y places it, still within mythology, before the universe. These entries describe a foundational belief rather than a scientific observation of its birth.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 80
- Type (source)
- Colorless
- Stage (source)
- Basic
- Pokédex number
- 493
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fighting ×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 is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world.Attacks
Sky Spear
Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 80 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Remove all Energy cards attached to Arceus and put them in the Lost Zone.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Holographic
- holo · standard
Price history
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