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Flutter Mane

Surging Sparks / #096/191

Flutter Mane

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Surging Sparks
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Ebila
Source reference
sv08-096

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The Pokémon’s story

Flutter Mane recalls a creature described in a book, without that resemblance resolving its identity. Another comparison connects it with a ghostly pterosaur mentioned in a paranormal magazine. The Pokédex immediately tempers this lead: the two share certain traits, but little more. Around this Pokémon, stories therefore accumulate faster than certainties, and a similar silhouette does not prove a common origin.

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

A detail worth noticing

Violet compares Flutter Mane with a ghostly pterosaur mentioned in a paranormal magazine, while specifying that their common traits are limited. Scarlet refers to a creature bearing its name in a book, without confirming that the two accounts describe the same origin.

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Card details

HP
90
Type (source)
Psychic
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
987
Regulation mark
H
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Metal ×2

Printed card text — English

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Attacks

Perplexing Transfer

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Move all damage counters from 1 of your Benched Ancient Pokémon to your opponent's Active Pokémon.

Moonblast

Cost: Psychic · Psychic

Damage: 70

During your opponent's next turn, attacks used by the Defending Pokémon do 30 less damage (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

Documented variants

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

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