ダークライGX

Printed language: Japanese · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): GXウルトラシャイニー
Rarity (source): Ultra Rare
Illustrator: 5ban Graphics
Source reference: SM8b-230

CARDEX BACKGROUND

The Pokémon’s story

Darkrai can put humans and Pokémon approaching its territory to sleep, then fill their dreams with nightmares to drive them away. Another entry presents this faculty as a means of defence when it feels threatened. The Pokémon’s unsettling appearance thus conceals a logic of protection and distance. The Pokédex also places its appearances on nights of the new moon. Darkrai’s stories therefore combine a specific time of appearance with a power capable of affecting the sleep of those who approach.

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

A detail worth noticing

Pokémon Y places Darkrai’s appearances on nights of the new moon. This detail gives a setting to its stories of troubled sleep: its appearance is associated with a specific point in the lunar cycle. The Pokédex identifies a period of appearance without claiming that all nightmares come from it.

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Card details

HP: 180
Type (source): Darkness
Stage (source): Basic
Pokédex number: 491
Retreat cost: 2 Energy
Weakness (source): Fighting x2
Resistance (source): Psychic -20

Printed card text — Japanese

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.

Abilities

リザレクション

Ability

このカードがトラッシュにあるなら、自分の番に1回使える。このカードをベンチに出す。その後、自分のトラッシュにある[悪]エネルギーを1枚、このカードにつける。

Attacks

やみのさけめ

Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless

Damage: 130

このワザのダメージは抵抗力を計算しない。

デッドエンドGX

Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless

相手のバトルポケモンが特殊状態なら、そのポケモンをきぜつさせる。［対戦中、自分はGXワザを1回しか使えない。］

Documented variants

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Holographic
holo · standard

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