Prehistoric Call
Ability
Once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is in your discard pile, you may put this Pokémon on the bottom of your deck.
Plasma Blast / #53/101
Archen
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Plasma Blast
- Rarity (source)
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Mizue
- Source reference
- bw10-53
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Archen is an ancient bird brought back from a fossil. It has wings but cannot yet fly: it moves through trees by hopping and can glide toward prey from a high branch. It eats Berries and Bug-type Pokémon. Long presented as the ancestor of all bird Pokémon, it is now the subject of more cautious research; a recent entry indicates that this ancestry may be false. Its place in the history of species therefore remains open.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Sun presents Archen as an ancestor of birds, but Pokémon Ultra Sun specifies that recent research disputes this idea. Pokémon Ultra Moon recalls another detail: despite its wings, the restored fossil cannot fly.
Card details
- HP
- 70
- Type (source)
- Fighting
- Stage (source)
- RESTORED
- Pokédex number
- 566
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Grass ×2
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 was revived from an ancient fossil. Not able to fly, it lived in treetops and hopped from one branch to another.Abilities
Attacks
Wing Attack
Cost: Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 20
Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- Reverse
- normal · standard
- reverse · standard
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