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Zekrom

XY Black Star Promos / #XY76/211

Zekrom

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
XY Black Star Promos
Rarity (source)
Promo
Illustrator
Naoki Saito
Source reference
xyp-XY76

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Zekrom spins its tail like an immense generator and releases lightning around itself. It can wrap its body in an electric cloud before soaring through Unova’s sky. Legends attribute to it the power to strike the world with lightning, but also a choice: it is said to support people who pursue their ideals. Another tradition relates that it would punish a country that had lost its sense of justice. Its electricity therefore carries a moral story as well as physical force.

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

A detail worth noticing

The Pokémon Sword entry compares Zekrom’s tail to an engine: its rotation generates lightning that flashes through the surroundings. In Pokémon Shield, its power becomes the subject of legend, as an unjust country is said to risk being reduced to ashes.

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Card details

HP
120
Type (source)
Lightning
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
644
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fighting ×2
Resistance (source)
Metal -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

Concealing itself in lightning clouds, it flies throughout the Unova region. It creates electricity in its tail.

Attacks

Slash

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20

Voltage Storm

Cost: Lightning · Lightning · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 90

This attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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