Gym Challenge

Giovanni's Persian G2 8/132

G2JPHolo Rare
Giovanni's Persian G2 8

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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 G2 8/132 there. Its illustration is signed Ken Sugimori.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Gym Challenge set, released here on 16 October 2000.

When it came out

Gym Challenge landed here on 16 October 2000.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

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

HP
60
Type
Colorless
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
0
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Number
8/132
Set
Gym ChallengeG2
Illustrated by
Ken Sugimori

The Japanese text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Call the Boss

When you play Giovanni's Persian from your hand, you may search your deck for the Trainer card named Giovanni, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Its attacks

Ambush

20+

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage; if tails, this attack does 20 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

    It retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.

  2. A strength

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

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,519 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.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,519 tournament lists we have read, 1,235 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

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