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Mesprit

Surging Sparks / #204/191

Mesprit

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Surging Sparks
Rarity (source)
Illustration rare
Illustrator
HYOGONOSUKE
Source reference
sv08-204

CARDEX BACKGROUND

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
Regulation mark
H
Retreat cost
1 Energy
Weakness (source)
Darkness ×2
Resistance (source)
Fighting -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.

Attacks

Full Heart

Cost: Colorless

Attach up to 2 Basic {P} Energy cards from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like.

Guardian Burst

Cost: Psychic · Psychic

Damage: 160

If you don't have Uxie and Azelf on your Bench, this attack does nothing.

Documented variants

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

  • Holographic
  • holo · standard

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