Iron Tail
Cost: Colorless
Damage: 30×
Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.
HeartGold SoulSilver / #10/123
Raichu
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- HeartGold SoulSilver
- Rarity (source)
- Holo Rare
- Illustrator
- match
- Source reference
- hgss1-10
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
As Raichu accumulates electricity, its behaviour can become more aggressive. To keep the charge from affecting it, it plants its long tail in the ground like an earth connection. The Pokédex thus links its mood to the amount of electricity it carries. Its body sometimes glows faintly in the dark, a visible sign of energy that keeps flowing even when it is not battling.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
When its cheeks run low on energy, Raichu can raise its tail to gather electricity from the atmosphere. Pokémon Shield describes this as another way to recharge. The same tail therefore manages electricity in two directions: releasing it into the ground or collecting it from the surroundings.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 90
- Type (source)
- Lightning
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Pikachu
- Pokédex number
- 26
- Retreat cost
- 0 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
If the electric pouches in its cheeks become fully charged, both ears will stand straight up.Attacks
Thunderbolt
Cost: Lightning · Lightning
Damage: 100
Discard all Energy attached to Raichu.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Reverse
- Holographic
- holo · standard
- reverse · standard
- holo · cracked-ice · standard
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