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Kyurem

Plasma Freeze / #31/116

Kyurem

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Plasma Freeze
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
5ban Graphics
Source reference
bw9-31

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Kyurem produces cold so intense that its own breath has ended up freezing its body. The Pokédex also describes it as incomplete: it awaits a hero able to revive this frozen body by sharing ideals and truth with it. Beneath the ice it created itself remains immense power, described as greater than that of Reshiram and Zekrom. Its waiting and its cold sketch the portrait of a dragon still unfinished.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Shield gives a possible reason for Kyurem freezing itself with its own breath: it may thereby have stabilised its cellular structure. This detail changes the interpretation of its icy shell, which might also help hold its body together. The Pokédex uses cautious wording and does not present this explanation as an absolute certainty.

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Card details

HP
130
Type (source)
Water
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
646
Retreat cost
3 Energy
Weakness (source)
Metal ×2

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

This legendary ice Pokémon waits for a hero to fill in the missing parts of its body with truth or ideals.

Attacks

Frost Spear

Cost: Water · Colorless

Damage: 30

Does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Blizzard Burn

Cost: Water · Water · Colorless

Damage: 120

This Pokémon can't attack during your next turn.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • normal · standard

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