Team Rocket Returns

Rocket's Articuno ex

Name: Rocket's Articuno ex TR 96
Brand: Pokémon

TRFR96· Rare

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What the card itself says

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

HP: 100
Type: Darkness
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 96/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Ryo Ueda

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

Its Ability

Darkness Veil

As long as Rocket's Articuno ex has any Darkness Energy attached to it prevent all effects except damage by an opponent's attack done to Rocket's Articuno ex."

Its attacks

Freeze Solid

Search your discard pile for a Water Energy card and attach it to Rocket's Articuno ex."

Ice Wing

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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Darkness Veil. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 3,826 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.
Keep in mind
It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
Keep in mind
Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,826 tournament lists we have read, 529 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.

When it came out

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 40 Articuno cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Articuno card and its price

What the card itself says

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

HP: 100
Type: Darkness
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 96/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Ryo Ueda

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

Its Ability

Darkness Veil

As long as Rocket's Articuno ex has any Darkness Energy attached to it prevent all effects except damage by an opponent's attack done to Rocket's Articuno ex."

Its attacks

Freeze Solid

Search your discard pile for a Water Energy card and attach it to Rocket's Articuno ex."

Ice Wing

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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Darkness Veil. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 3,826 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.
Keep in mind
It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
Keep in mind
Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,826 tournament lists we have read, 529 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

What the card itself says

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

HP: 100
Type: Darkness
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 96/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Ryo Ueda

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

Its Ability

Darkness Veil

As long as Rocket's Articuno ex has any Darkness Energy attached to it prevent all effects except damage by an opponent's attack done to Rocket's Articuno ex."

Its attacks

Freeze Solid

Search your discard pile for a Water Energy card and attach it to Rocket's Articuno ex."

Ice Wing

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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Darkness Veil. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 3,826 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.
Keep in mind
It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
Keep in mind
Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,826 tournament lists we have read, 529 run at least one Pokémon of that type.