Paldean Fates / #190/91

Grafaiai

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Paldean Fates
Rarity (source): Shiny rare
Illustrator: Scav
Source reference: sv04.5-190

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Grafaiai travels through the forest leaving patterns on trees. It coats its fingers in toxic saliva to make these marks, whose color depends on what it has eaten. Each individual has its own design and reproduces it again and again throughout its life. The Pokédex thus connects food, saliva, and Grafaiai's visual identity. Its marks are not random splashes: they follow a recognizable shape particular to the individual that left them.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Scarlet connects the shade of Grafaiai's poisonous saliva with its diet. Pokémon Violet specifies that each paints a personal pattern and repeats that same design throughout its life. Saliva color and pattern shape thus follow different rules.

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Card details

HP: 90
Type (source): Darkness
Stage (source): Stage1
Evolves from (printed name): Shroodle
Pokédex number: 945
Regulation mark: G
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

The color of the poisonous saliva depends on what the Pokémon eats. Grafaiai covers its fingers in its saliva and draws patterns on trees in forests.

Attacks

Spit Poison

Cost: Darkness

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Colorful Graffiti

Cost: Darkness

Damage: 40×

You may discard as many Basic Energy cards as you like from your hand. This attack does 40 damage for each type of Basic Energy you discarded in this way.

Documented variants

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

Holographic
holo · standard

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