Plasma Blast / #57/101

Aron

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Plasma Blast
Rarity (source): Common
Illustrator: Shigenori Negishi
Source reference: bw10-57

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Aron finds in iron ore the material needed to build the steel armor protecting its body. But its appetite does not always distinguish a mountain from a human structure. Rails and bridges can become meals, causing very real damage around it. Its survival and the inhabitants' buildings thus intersect in one material, valuable for very different reasons.

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

A detail worth noticing

When it evolves, Aron sheds its old armor. Pokémon Shield says humans once collected it for use in everyday life. Metal abandoned by the Pokémon could therefore find a second purpose after its growth.

Sources for this background

Pokédex — background source

Card details

HP: 60
Type (source): Metal
Stage (source): Basic
Pokédex number: 304
Retreat cost: 2 Energy
Weakness (source): Fire ×2
Resistance (source): Psychic -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

In order to build up its steel body, it eats iron ore. This pesky Pokémon is known to eat railroad tracks.

Attacks

Iron Head

Cost: Metal

Damage: 10

Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.

Headbutt

Cost: Metal · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 30

Documented variants

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Normal
normal · standard

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