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Aerodactyl ex

Sandstorm / #94/100

Aerodactyl ex

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Sandstorm
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Hikaru Koike
Source reference
ex2-94

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Aerodactyl dominated the skies in prehistoric times and caught prey with a jaw of saw-like teeth. Researchers reconstructed it from DNA preserved in amber, but the Pokédex warns that this restoration may remain imperfect. Released into the present world, it proved fiercer than expected. It was highly capable in flight, but much slower on the ground. Its return thus combines scientific achievement with the difficulty of understanding an extinct predator.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Sword doubts that Aerodactyl can be restored perfectly, even from amber. Pokémon Ultra Moon describes a great aerial hunter with little agility on the ground. The limits of reconstruction and of its movements qualify its image as an invincible predator.

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Card details

HP
100
Type (source)
Colorless
Stage (source)
Stage1
Evolves from (printed name)
Mysterious Fossil
Pokédex number
142
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Lightning ×2
Resistance (source)
Fighting -30

Printed card text — English

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Abilities

Primal Lock

Poke-BODY

As long as Aerodactyl ex is in play, your opponent can't play Pokémon Tool cards. Remove any Pokémon Tool cards attached to your opponent's Pokémon and put them into his or her discard pile.

Attacks

Supersonic

Cost: Colorless

Damage: 10

The Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Wing Attack

Cost: Colorless · Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 60

Documented variants

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  • Holographic
  • holo · standard

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