Toxic Fang
Cost: Darkness · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 40
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. Put 2 damage counters instead of 1 on that Pokémon between turns.
Triumphant / #4/102
Drapion
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Triumphant
- Rarity (source)
- Holo Rare
- Illustrator
- Sumiyoshi Kizuki
- Source reference
- hgss4-4
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Drapion asserts its presence in desert expanses through the power of its pincers and armoured body. Its extremities carry a potent poison, but Pokédex entries emphasise that it can defeat an opponent without even using it. Its ferocity has earned it a fearsome nickname. Yet it has a limit: faced with Hippowdon, Drapion avoids confrontation. The portrait is of a feared predator also capable of recognising a greater danger.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Shield nicknames Drapion the “Sand Demon”, but describes it as docile before Hippowdon. Pokémon Sword explains that it rarely uses its poison despite its violence. The species’ reputation therefore rests as much on physical strength as on a weapon it often keeps in reserve.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 100
- Type (source)
- Darkness
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Skorupi
- Pokédex number
- 452
- Retreat cost
- 3 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.
Description from the source
It attacks people and Pokémon that cross the desert. This has only furthered its bad reputation.Attacks
Land Crush
Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 80
Documented variants
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- Reverse
- Holographic
- holo · standard
- reverse · standard
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