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Noktuska

Plasma-Frost / #10/116

Noktuska

Printed language: German · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Plasma-Frost
Rarity (source)
Selten
Illustrator
Suwama Chiaki
Source reference
bw9-10

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Cacturne remains still during scorching hours to limit water loss. At night, when the desert cools, it hunts. Groups then follow travelers and wait until they are too tired to defend themselves. The Pokédex describes a patient predator adapted to aridity: it saves strength by day to exploit the weakness of those still walking after sunset.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Omega Ruby connects Cacturne's daytime stillness with desert dryness. Pokémon Alpha Sapphire describes its collective hunt against exhausted travelers. Its chosen moment to attack therefore responds to its own survival as much as its prey's fatigue.

Sources for this background

Card details

HP
90
Type (source)
Pflanze
Stage (source)
Rang 1
Evolves from (printed name)
Tuska
Pokédex number
332
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Feuer ×2
Resistance (source)
Wasser -20

Printed card text — German

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

Ein nachtaktives Pokémon, das Beute sucht, die durch die Tageshitze der Wüste bereits erschöpft ist.

Attacks

Schnellfeuernadeln

Cost: Pflanze

Damage: 60

Dieser Angriff fügt 1 deiner Pokémon 30 Schadenspunkte zu. (Wende Schwäche und Resistenz bei Pokémon auf der Bank nicht an.)

Gegenstoß

Cost: Pflanze · Farblos

Damage: 30

Wenn dein Gegner nur 1 Preiskarte übrig hat, fügt dieser Angriff 60 weitere Schadenspunkte zu. Lege 1 an das Verteidigende Pokémon angelegte Energie auf den Ablagestapel deines Gegners.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · Standard

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