Pin Missile
Cost: Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 20x
Flip 3 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.
Great Encounters / #34/106
Cacturne
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Great Encounters
- Rarity (source)
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Midori Harada
- Source reference
- dp4-34
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Cacturne remains still during scorching hours to limit water loss. At night, when the desert cools, it hunts. Groups then follow travelers and wait until they are too tired to defend themselves. The Pokédex describes a patient predator adapted to aridity: it saves strength by day to exploit the weakness of those still walking after sunset.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Omega Ruby connects Cacturne's daytime stillness with desert dryness. Pokémon Alpha Sapphire describes its collective hunt against exhausted travelers. Its chosen moment to attack therefore responds to its own survival as much as its prey's fatigue.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 80
- Type (source)
- Darkness
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Cacnea
- Pokédex number
- 332
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fire +20
- 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 becomes active at night, seeking prey that is exhausted from the day's desert heat.Attacks
Needle Arm
Cost: Darkness · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 50+
If the Defending Pokémon already has any damage counters on it, this attack does 50 damage plus 20 more damage.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- Reverse
- normal · standard
- reverse · standard
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