Thumping Fall
Cost: Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 50×
Discard any number of Pokémon with a Retreat Cost of exactly 4 from your hand. This attack does 50 damage for each card you discarded in this way.
Cosmic Eclipse / #139/236
Steelix
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Cosmic Eclipse
- Rarity (source)
- Rare
- Illustrator
- KEIICHIRO ITO
- Source reference
- sm12-139
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
Steelix lives much deeper underground than Onix. As it burrows, it swallows soil containing iron; the Pokédex suggests that this diet may have transformed its body. Underground heat and pressure are thought to have hardened its structure further. Its jaws crush stone while its eyes make out a path in the dim light. Some observations place it more than a kilometre below ground. The account of its origin remains a hypothesis, but its underground lifestyle is written throughout its body.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Pokémon Sword reports another tradition: Steelix is said to be an Onix more than a hundred years old that has become almost as hard as diamond. This idea is presented as a story, not a measurement of the age of observed Steelix. It extends its association with depth and time.
Card details
- HP
- 170
- Type (source)
- Metal
- Stage (source)
- Stage1
- Evolves from (printed name)
- Onix
- Pokédex number
- 208
- Retreat cost
- 4 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fire ×2
- 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
Tempered underground under high pressure and heat, its body is harder than any metal.Attacks
Iron Tail
Cost: Metal · Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Damage: 100×
Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 100 damage for each heads.Documented variants
Versions reported by the source; identification for sales still needs verification.
- Normal
- normal · standard
Price history
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