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Giovanni's Magikarp

Gym Challenge / #73/132

Giovanni's Magikarp

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Gym Challenge
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori
Source reference
gym2-73

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About the species

It is easy to see Magikarp as nothing more than a small Pokémon swept along by the current. Its reputation for weakness invites people to underestimate it, as though its future amounted only to its present difficulties. Yet it can evolve into Gyarados. This transformation casts its beginnings in a different light: behind the creature that barely attracts notice lies a far more impressive possibility, still invisible at first glance.

This account describes the species in the video games. It does not describe its Trainer’s history or that of this copy, and does not identify the depicted form or sex.

A detail worth noticing

The entries in Pokémon Platinum, Black and White relate that a Magikarp that has lived for many years can cross a mountain using Splash. This exceptional leap concerns older individuals; the same text nevertheless states that the move remains useless.

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Card details

HP
30
Type (source)
Water
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
129
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Lightning x2

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.

Attacks

Ancestral Memory

Cost: Water

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. Either way, you can't use this attack again as long as Giovanni's Magikarp stays in play (even putting Giovanni's Magikarp on the Bench won't let you use it again).

Flail Around

Cost: Water · Colorless

Damage: 10x

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · standard
  • normal · standard · 1st-edition

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