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Mesprit

Legends Awakened / #34/146

Mesprit

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Legends Awakened
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori
Source reference
dp6-34

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The Pokémon’s story

Mesprit is called the Being of Emotion. According to a Pokédex tradition, its flight supposedly taught humans to know joy and sorrow. Another story says its body rests at the bottom of a lake while its spirit flies above the water. These accounts are not presented as confirmed observations. They give Mesprit a distinctive place in legends: connecting people's inner lives with a Pokémon imagined to be hidden beneath a lake.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon White recounts that humans supposedly discovered joy and sorrow when Mesprit took flight. Alpha Sapphire reports another belief: its spirit is said to leave its sleeping body at the bottom of a lake to fly above the surface.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Psychic
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
481
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (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

Known as "The Being of Emotion." It taught humans the nobility of sorrow, pain, and joy.

Abilities

Psychic Bind

Poke-POWER

Once during your turn, when you put Mesprit from your hand onto your Bench, you may use this power. Your opponent can't use any Poké-Powers on his or her Pokémon during your opponent's next turn.

Attacks

Extrasensory

Cost: Psychic · Psychic

Damage: 20+

If you have the same number of cards in your hand as your opponent, this attack does 20 damage plus 50 more damage.

Documented variants

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

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