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Darkrai GX

Burning Shadows / #158/147

Darkrai GX

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Burning Shadows
Rarity (source)
Secret Rare
Illustrator
5ban Graphics
Source reference
sm3-158

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Darkrai can put humans and Pokémon approaching its territory to sleep, then fill their dreams with nightmares to drive them away. Another entry presents this faculty as a means of defence when it feels threatened. The Pokémon’s unsettling appearance thus conceals a logic of protection and distance. The Pokédex also places its appearances on nights of the new moon. Darkrai’s stories therefore combine a specific time of appearance with a power capable of affecting the sleep of those who approach.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Y places Darkrai’s appearances on nights of the new moon. This detail gives a setting to its stories of troubled sleep: its appearance is associated with a specific point in the lunar cycle. The Pokédex identifies a period of appearance without claiming that all nightmares come from it.

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Card details

HP
180
Type (source)
Darkness
Pokédex number
491
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting ×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.

Abilities

Restoration

Ability

Once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is in your discard pile, you may put it onto your Bench. Then, attach a Darkness Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon.

Attacks

Dark Cleave

Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless

Damage: 130

This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance.

Dead End GX

Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless

If your opponent’s Active Pokémon is affected by a Special Condition, that Pokémon is Knocked Out. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Documented variants

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

  • Holographic
  • holo · standard

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