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Togepi

Wizards Black Star Promos / #30/53

Togepi

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Wizards Black Star Promos
Rarity (source)
Common
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori
Source reference
basep-30

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Togepi turns happy emotions into a resource. The compassion and joy it receives fuel its energy; it then stores this happiness in its shell to share. Its smile takes on another meaning in light of this story. Beneath the appearance of a little moving egg, it embodies an exchange in which care given can return to others.

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

A detail worth noticing

A proverb reported in Pokémon Silver promises happiness to anyone who can make a sleeping Togepi stand up. Here the Pokédex conveys a tradition of the Pokémon world, rather than a proven property of its shell or an evolution technique.

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Card details

HP
30
Type (source)
Colorless
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
175
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Resistance (source)
Psychic -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

Still only a hatchling, it uses poison to chase off its enemies when threatened.

Attacks

Snivel

Cost: Colorless

If the Defending Pokémon attacks Togepi during your opponent's next turn, any damage done to Togepi is reduced by 20 (before applying Weakness and Resistance). (Benching either Pokémon ends this effect.)

Mini-Metronome

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 of the Defending Pokémon's attacks. Mini-Metronome copies that attack except for its Energy cost. (You must still do anything else in order to use that attack.) (No matter what type the Defending Pokémon is, Togepi's type is still .) Togepi performs that attack.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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