Crunch
Cost: Darkness · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 30
Until the end of your next turn, if an attack damages the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance), that attack does 20 more damage to the Defending Pokémon.
Neo Discovery / #4/75
Houndoom
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Neo Discovery
- Rarity (source)
- Rare
- Illustrator
- Shin-ichi Yoshida
- Source reference
- neo2-4
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Houndoom's howl has long frightened humans, who have mistaken it for the call of the grim reaper. Yet it also lives in an organised pack: its members choose their leader through battle, and the leader's swept-back horns set it apart. Its unsettling image from afar therefore conceals very real relationships among its kind. The voice that seems to announce a bad omen belongs to a Pokémon attentive to each member's place.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Houndoom can breathe poison-laced flames to finish off its prey, then share it with the other members of its pack. Ultra Sun thus shows a hunter whose fire also helps feed the group. This social dimension can easily be overlooked behind its sinister reputation and impressive attacks.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 70
- Type (source)
- Darkness
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Houndour
- Pokédex number
- 229
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Resistance (source)
- Psychic -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.
Description from the source
Upon hearing its eerie howls, other Pokémon get the shivers and head straight back to their nests.Attacks
Flamethrower
Cost: Fire · Fire · Colorless
Damage: 50
Discard 1 Energy card attached to Houndoom or this attack does nothing.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Holographic
- First Edition
- holo · standard
- holo · standard · 1st-edition
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