Alakazam 4 (Rising Rivals 38)

Alakazam LV.56 フーディン四[してんのう] Foodin 4 [Elite]

Elite Four's Pokémon Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Alakazam Type Psychic HP 80 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Rising Rivals Rarity English card no. 38/111 Japanese expansion Bonds to the End of Time Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 041/090 Japanese expansion DPt-P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 012/DPt-P For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Alakazam.

Alakazam (Japanese: フーディン四[してんのう] Foodin 4) is a Psychic-type Basic Pokémon card. It was first released as part of the Rising Rivals expansion.

Card text

Recover じこさいせい

Discard a Energy attached to Alakazam and remove 4 damage counters from Alakazam .

Mysterious Beam ふしぎなビーム 30

Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon.

Release information

This card was included in the English Rising Rivals expansion, first released in the Japanese Bonds to the End of Time expansion. In Japan, it was reprinted as a DPt-P Promotional card and was awarded as a prize to participants of the Bonds to the End of Time Release Commemoration Gym Challenge events during December 2008. The Japanese promotional print has a gold foil "Gym☆Challenge" stamp to the right under the card's attacks.

Trivia

Origin

Elite Four member Lucian owns a level 56 male Alakazam that knows Recover in Pokémon Platinum. The card's artwork also depicts a male Alakazam. Recover is a move in the Pokémon games that Alakazam can learn. Mysterious Beam is an attack that first appeared on Tentacool from Legends Awakened. The interior of Lucian's room in Sinnoh's Pokémon League as it appears in Platinum is featured in the illustration.

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