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Registeel

Astral Radiance / #108/189

Registeel

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Astral Radiance
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
hatachu
Source reference
swsh10-108

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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
130
Type (source)
Metal
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
379
Regulation mark
F
Retreat cost
3 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fire ×2
Resistance (source)
Grass -30

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

Registeel's body is made of a strange material that is flexible enough to stretch and shrink but also more durable than any metal.

Attacks

Regi Gate

Cost: Colorless

Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.

Heavy Slam

Cost: Metal · Metal · Colorless

Damage: 220-

This attack does 50 less damage for each Colorless in your opponent's Active Pokémon's Retreat Cost.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · standard

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