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Darkrai

Obsidian Flames / #136/197

Darkrai

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Obsidian Flames
Rarity (source)
Rare
Illustrator
Bun Toujo
Source reference
sv03-136

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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
130
Type (source)
Darkness
Stage (source)
Basic
Pokédex number
491
Regulation mark
G
Retreat cost
2 Energy
Weakness (source)
Grass ×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

It can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon.

Attacks

Dark Slumber

Cost: Darkness

Damage: 20

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Asleep.

Night Cyclone

Cost: Darkness · Darkness · Colorless

Damage: 120

Move all Energy from this Pokémon to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like.

Documented variants

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

  • Normal
  • Reverse
  • Holographic
  • holo · standard
  • reverse · standard
  • holo · galaxy · standard
  • normal · standard · trick-or-trade
  • holo · standard · trick-or-trade

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