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Dratini

Sun & Moon / #94/149

Dratini

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Sun & Moon
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Naoyo Kimura
Source reference
sm1-94

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

Signs of Evolution searches the deck for a Dratini, a Dragonair, and a Dragonite, reveals them, and adds them to the hand before shuffling. This Dratini gathers three stages of its Evolution line with one attack. Its other printed option deals 10 damage.

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Card details

HP
60
Type (source)
Dragon
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
147
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Fairy ×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

After a 10-hour struggle, a fisherman was able to pull one up and confirm its existence.

Attacks

Signs of Evolution

Cost: Grass

Search your deck for a Dratini, a Dragonair, and a Dragonite, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

Tail Smack

Cost: Lightning

Damage: 10

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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