Lucario & Melmetal-GX (Unbroken Bonds 120)

Lucario & Melmetal   ルカリオ＆メルメタルGX Lucario & MelmetalGX

SM Promotional print Illus. nagimiso

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Lucario & Melmetal-GX Type Metal HP 260 weakness ×2 resistance -20 retreat cost English expansion Unbroken Bonds Rarity English card no. 120/214 Japanese expansion Full Metal Wall Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 029/054 English expansion Unbroken Bonds Rarity English card no. 203/214 Japanese expansion Full Metal Wall Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 058/054 English expansion Unbroken Bonds Rarity English card no. 224/214 Japanese expansion Full Metal Wall Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 065/054 English expansion SM Black Star Promos English card no. SM192 Japanese expansion Full Metal Wall Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 059/054 Japanese expansion Tag All Stars Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 083/173 Japanese expansion Tag All Stars Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 224/173 For more information on the Pokémon depicted on this card, see Lucario and Melmetal.

Lucario & Melmetal (Japanese: ルカリオ＆メルメタルGX Lucario & MelmetalGX) is a Metal-type Basic TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX card. It was first released as part of the Unbroken Bonds expansion.

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Card text

TAG TEAM

Steel Fist

こうてつのこぶし

50

Search your deck for a Energy card and attach it to this Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck.

Heavy Impact

ヘビーインパクト

150

Full Metal Wall-GX

フルメタルウォールGX

For the rest of this game, your Pokémon take 30 less damage from your opponent's attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). If this Pokémon has at least 1 extra Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack's cost), discard all Energy from your opponent's Active Pokémon. (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 Full Metal Wall subset. The Regular print features artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita, the Full Art and Rainbow Rare prints feature artwork by 5ban Graphics, while the Special Full Art print features artwork by nagimiso. The Regular, Full Art, and Rainbow Rare prints were included in the Unbroken Bonds expansion, while the Special Full Art print became a SM Black Star Promo available in the Power Partnership Tins. The Regular print was reprinted, alongside an entirely gold Full Art print, in the Japanese Tag All Stars subset.

Gallery

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Trivia

Atsushi Nagashima, the game director of the TCG, has stated that he had intended to feature Melmetal on a TAG TEAM card, though the team had originally considered pairing it with another large Pokémon, such as Klinklang. Lucario was later selected as Melmetal's partner since its lithe appearance would contrast well against Melmetal's bulk. Mitsuhiro Arita noted that the illustration's composition needed to properly showcase Melmetal's body, as it had been introduced much more recently than Lucario, and players would therefore be less familiar with it. As such, Arita's illustration for the Regular print emphasizes Melmetal's head while also depicting the rest of Melmetal's body.

Origin

Heavy Impact is an attack that first appeared on Dark Steelix from EX Team Rocket Returns. Full Metal Wall is the name of the Japanese expansion in which Lucario & Melmetal-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.