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Garchomp & Giratina   ガブリアス&ギラティナGX Gaburias & GiratinaGX

SM Promotional print Illus. Anesaki Dynamic

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Garchomp & Giratina-GX Type Dragon HP 270 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Unified Minds Rarity English card no. 146/236 Japanese expansion GG End Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 032/054 English expansion Unified Minds Rarity English card no. 228/236 Japanese expansion GG End Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 059/054 English expansion Unified Minds Rarity English card no. 247/236 Japanese expansion GG End Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 066/054 English expansion SM Black Star Promos English card no. SM193 Japanese expansion GG End Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 060/054 Japanese expansion Tag All Stars Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 099/173 Japanese expansion Tag All Stars Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 225/173 For more information on the Pokémon depicted on this card, see Garchomp and Giratina.

Garchomp & Giratina (Japanese: ガブリアス&ギラティナGX Gaburias & GiratinaGX) is a Dragon-type Basic TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX card. It was first released as part of the Unified Minds expansion.

Card text

TAG TEAM

Linear Attack ちょくげきだん

This attack does 40 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Calamitous Slash [create category] カラミティエッジ 160+

If your opponent's Active Pokémon already has any damage counters on it, this attack does 80 more damage.

GG End-GX [create category] ジージーエンドGX

Discard 1 of your opponent's Pokémon and all cards attached to it. If this Pokémon has at least 3 extra Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack's cost), discard 2 of your opponent's Pokémon instead. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

TAG TEAM rule When your TAG TEAM is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

Release information

In Japan, this card was included as a Regular card, a Full Art card, a Special Full Art card, and as a Secret Rainbow Rare in the GG End subset. The Regular print features artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita, the Full Art and Rainbow Rare prints feature artwork by aky CG Works, while the Special Full Art print features artwork by Anesaki Dynamic. The Regular, Full Art, and Rainbow Rare prints were included in the Unified Minds expansion, while the Special Full Art print became a SM Black Star Promo available in the Power Partnership Tins. In Japan, the Regular print was reprinted, alongside an entirely gold Full Art print, in the Tag All Stars subset.

Gallery

Unified Minds Regular print Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita	Unified Minds Full Art print Illus. aky CG Works	Unified Minds Rainbow Rare print Illus. aky CG Works
SM Promotional print Illus. Anesaki Dynamic	Tag All Stars Secret print Illus. aky CG Works	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori

Trivia

Atsushi Nagashima, the game director of the TCG, stated that this card was designed around being "strong in an unusual way." The idea was to pair Origin Forme Giratina with another Dragon-type Pokémon capable of flight, such as Rayquaza, Dragonite, or Salamence. Garchomp was chosen due to its use of Fighting Energy like Marshadow & Machamp-GX.^[1] Mitsuhiro Arita, the illustrator of the card's Regular print, drew Garchomp flying to surprise people who weren't aware of how it flies. To reflect how each Pokémon comes from a different world, the artwork is ambiguous as to whether it depicts the Pokémon world or the Distortion World.^[2]

Origin

This card features Giratina in its Origin Forme. Linear Attack is an attack that first appeared on Team Magma's Groudon from EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua. GG End is the name of the Japanese subset in which Garchomp & Giratina-GX was first released.

References

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.