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Magnemite

Base Set / #53/102

Magnemite

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Base Set
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Keiji Kinebuchi
Source reference
base1-53

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The Pokémon’s story

Magnemite seeks places rich in electricity and may gather with others near power pylons. It floats by releasing electromagnetic waves through the magnets on its body. This energy feeds it, but its appetite also causes problems for human infrastructure: some power plants try to keep it away. In its wake, the boundary between a useful resource and a power failure becomes fragile. Touching it while it recharges may even cause an electric shock.

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

A detail worth noticing

A Magnemite deprived of electricity can fall to the ground. Pokémon Sword adds that a battery is enough to revive it. This detail makes its levitation's dependence on energy visible: when the charge disappears, it stops floating, then regains its movement when it receives electricity again.

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Card details

HP
40
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
81
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting ×2

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

Uses anti-gravity to stay suspended. Appears without warning and uses attacks like Thunder Wave.

Attacks

Thunder Wave

Cost: Lightning

Damage: 10

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Selfdestruct

Cost: Lightning · Colorless

Damage: 40

Does 10 damage to each Pokémon on each player's Bench. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Magnemite does 40 damage to itself.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · unlimited · standard
  • normal · shadowless · standard · 1st-edition
  • normal · shadowless · standard
  • normal · 1999-2000-copyright · standard

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