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Iron Thorns

Temporal Forces / #062/162

Iron Thorns

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Temporal Forces
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Takeshi Nakamura
Source reference
sv05-062

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Iron Thorns recalls a Tyranitar, but texts attempting to explain its appearance need to be read cautiously. A dubious magazine presented it as a Tyranitar from a future one billion years away. An old expedition journal described an object named Iron Thorns with several similar traits. The Pokédex compares these descriptions without confirming time travel. Its familiar appearance therefore does not, by itself, prove the provenance recounted by the magazine.

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

A detail worth noticing

The billion-year gap appears in a dubious magazine cited by Pokémon Scarlet, not in scientific dating. Pokémon Violet confines itself to comparing some of Iron Thorns's characteristics with those of an object recorded in an expedition journal.

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Card details

HP
140
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
995
Regulation mark
H
Retreat cost
3 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

Some of its notable features match those of an object named within a certain expedition journal as Iron Thorns.

Attacks

Destructo-Press

Cost: Lightning · Colorless

Damage: 70×

Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. This attack does 70 damage for each Future card you find there. Then, discard those Future cards and shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

Megaton Lariat

Cost: Lightning · Lightning · Lightning · Colorless

Damage: 140

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • Holographic
  • holo · standard
  • reverse · standard
  • normal · standard
  • holo · cosmos · standard

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