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Gourgeist

Evolving Skies / #77/203

Gourgeist

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Evolving Skies
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Megumi Higuchi
Source reference
swsh7-77

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Gourgeist wanders streets on moonless nights, singing and making unsettling cries. It can seize prey with hairlike arms and keep singing while the victim suffers. Stories claim its sounds curse listeners or that a nighttime visitor takes away whoever opens the door. The Pokédex does not clearly distinguish these stories from observations. Its hunting behavior nevertheless suffices to make such encounters feared.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sword reports that Gourgeist's cries are supposedly the lamentations of spirits from beyond. Pokémon Shield tells of it visiting a door during the new moon but presents this as an unsettling story. Pokémon Y more directly describes how it seizes prey.

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Card details

HP
120
Type (source)
Psychic
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Pumpkaboo
Pokédex number
711
Regulation mark
E
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Darkness ×2
Resistance (source)
Fighting -30

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 the darkness of a new-moon night, Gourgeist will come knocking. Whoever answers the door will be swept off to the afterlife.

Attacks

Pandemonium

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 60×

Reveal the top 6 cards of your deck. This attack does 60 damage for each Psychic Pokémon you find there. Then, shuffle those Pokémon back into your deck and discard the other cards.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • normal · standard
  • reverse · standard

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