Registeel-ex

Printed language: German · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): EX Smaragd
Rarity (source): Selten
Illustrator: Hikaru Koike
Source reference: ex9-100

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: 90
Type (source): Metall
Pokédex number: 379
Retreat cost: 2 Energy
Weakness (source): Feuer ×2

Printed card text — German

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

Block Signal

Cost: Farblos

Damage: 10

If Regice ex is in play, flip a coin. If heads the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Wide Laser

Cost: Metall · Metall · Farblos

Does 20 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Documented variants

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