Majestic Dawn

Manaphy MD 8/100

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Manaphy MD 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 MD 8/100 there. Its illustration is signed Suwama Chiaki.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Majestic Dawn set, released here on 1 May 2008.

When it came out

Majestic Dawn landed here on 1 May 2008.

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
70
Type
Water
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
+20
Number
8/100
Set
Majestic DawnMD
Illustrated by
Suwama Chiaki

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

Its Ability

Aqua Skin

When you attach a Water Energy card from your hand to Manaphy, remove 2 damage counters from Manaphy.

Its attacks

Chase Up

Flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for any 1 card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Fountain

30

You may attach up to 2 basic Water Energy cards from your hand to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like.

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, Aqua Skin. 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 5,799 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 Lightning +20. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,799 tournament lists we have read, 473 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.