Team Rocket Returns

Delibird TR 21/109

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Delibird TR 21

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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 21/109 there. Its illustration is signed Yuka Morii.
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
70
Type
Water
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
21/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Yuka Morii

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Its Ability

Gift Exchange

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Delibird is your Active Pokémon, you may shuffle 1 card from your hand into your deck. Then, draw a card. This power can't be used if Delibird is affected by a Special Condition.

Its attacks

Souvenir

Flip 3 coins. If 1 of them is heads, put 4 damage counters on the Defending Pokémon. If 2 of them are heads, remove 1 damage counter from the Defending Pokémon. If all of them are heads, put 10 damage counters on the Defending Pokémon. If all of them are tails, remove all damage counters from the Defending Pokémon.

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

    Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  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

    Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,624 tournament lists we have read, 753 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 14 Delibird cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Delibird card and its price