Tail Snap
Cost: Colorless
Damage: 20
Obsidian Flames / #157/197
Dratini
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Obsidian Flames
- Rarity (source)
- Common
- Illustrator
- satoma
- Source reference
- sv03-157
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Dratini long belonged to stories people believed without being able to verify them. The Pokédex relates that its capture by a fisherman confirmed its existence. Near fast-flowing water and the foot of waterfalls, it grows by shedding its skin several times. The legendary Pokémon then becomes a living being, occupied with the ordinary transformations of growing up.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Dratini sv03-157 by satoma has only one attack, Tail Snap, dealing 20 damage for one Colorless Energy. On bw9-81, illustrated by Atsuko Nishida, Dratini can first heal 20 damage from itself. That recovery choice does not exist on sv03-157: the two references do not offer the same turn.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 70
- Type (source)
- Dragon
- Stage (source)
- Basic
- Pokédex number
- 147
- Regulation mark
- G
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
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 sheds many layers of skin as it grows larger. During this process, it is protected by a rapid waterfall.Attacks
Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- Reverse
- normal · standard
- reverse · standard
Price history
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