Mimikyu VMAX

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition): Brilliant Stars Trainer Gallery
Rarity (source): Ultra Rare
Illustrator: Naoki Saito
Source reference: swsh9tg-TG17

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The Pokémon’s story

Mimikyu has made itself a Pikachu costume to look less frightening. Yet the disguise does not dispel its mystery: its true appearance remains unknown, and one entry recounts the fatal shock of a scholar who looked underneath. Usually calm and solitary, it becomes violently agitated if someone tries to lift its cloth. Its wish to appear less frightening is thus protected by a boundary it refuses to let others cross.

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

A detail worth noticing

The Pokédex entries do not all describe the same fate for those who looked beneath Mimikyu's disguise. Sun mentions a death caused by fear; Shield reports a mysterious illness affecting a researcher. Both accounts emphasise the danger without revealing the appearance concealed by the cloth.

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Card details

HP: 300
Type (source): Psychic
Stage (source): VMAX
Evolves from (printed name): Mimikyu V
Pokédex number: 778
Regulation mark: E
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

Ominous Numbers

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Put 4 damage counters on your opponent's Pokémon in any way you like. If you played Acerola's Premonition from your hand during this turn, place 13 damage counters instead.

Max Shadow

Cost: Psychic · Psychic

Damage: 120

Discard a random card from your opponent's hand.

Documented variants

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Holographic
holo · standard

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