Melmetal-GX (SM Promo 178)

Melmetal ; メルメタルGX MelmetalGX
Card name	Melmetal-GX
Type	Metal
HP	220
English expansion	SM Black Star Promos
English card no.	SM178
Japanese expansion	SM-P Promotional cards
Japanese card no.	285/SM-P
Japanese expansion	Tag All Stars
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	184/173
Japanese expansion	Tag All Stars
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	217/173
	For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Melmetal.

Melmetal (Japanese: メルメタルGX MelmetalGX) is a Metal-type Stage 1 Pokémon-GX card. It was first released as one of the SM Black Star Promos.

Card text

Hard Coat

ハードコート

This Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

Metal Blast

メタルブラスト

110+

This attack does 20 more damage times the amount of

Energy attached to this Pokémon.

Iron Force-GX

パンツァーフォースGX

Attach any number of

Energy cards from your discard pile to this Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Pokémon-GX Rule

When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

This card was included in the Melmetal-GX Box as one of the SM Black Star Promos, released February 15, 2019. A Jumbo version was also included in the box. In Japan, this card was one of two SM-P Promotional cards available in the Melmetal Metal Set from January 11, 2019. It features artwork by PLANETA Otani. A Full Art print and a Rainbow Rare print were later included in the Japanese Tag All Stars subset, both of which feature artwork by sadaji.

Tag All Stars Rainbow Rare print
Illus. sadaji

Metal Blast is an attack that first appeared on Magnezone from Diamond & Pearl.

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