Team Rocket Returns

Dark Tyranitar TR 20/109

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Dark Tyranitar TR 20

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read TR 20/109 there. Its illustration is signed Kyoko Koizumi.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Team Rocket Returns set, released here on 1 November 2004.

When it came out

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
120
Type
FightingDarkness
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
3
Weakness
×2
Number
20/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Kyoko Koizumi

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Its Ability

Sand Damage

As long as Dark Tyranitar is your Active Pokémon, put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent's Benched Basic Pokémon between turns. You can't use more than 1 Sand Damage Poké-Body between turns.

Its attacks

Second Strike

50+

If the Defending Pokémon already has at least 2 damage counters on it, this attack does 50 damage plus 20 more damage.

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    120 HP, and nothing in Team Rocket Returns goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.

  2. A strength

    It has an Ability, Sand Damage. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,624 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.

  5. Keep in mind

    It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Dark Pupitar to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,624 tournament lists we have read, 3,564 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

The other cards of this Pokémon

Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 46 Tyranitar cards on one page, priciest first.

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