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Great Encounters / #3/106
Darkrai
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Great Encounters
- Rarity (source)
- Rare Holo
- Illustrator
- Masakazu Fukuda
- Source reference
- dp4-3
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.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 70
- Type (source)
- Darkness
- Stage (source)
- Basic
- Pokédex number
- 491
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fighting +20
- Resistance (source)
- Psychic -20
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
It can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon.Attacks
Darkness Pursuit
Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Darkness
Damage: 50
If the Defending Pokémon is Cresselia, this attack's base damage is 100.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Reverse
- Holographic
- holo · standard
- reverse · standard
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