Team Rocket Returns

Rocket's Articuno ex TR 96/109

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Rocket's Articuno ex TR 96

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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 96/109 there. Its illustration is signed Ryo Ueda.
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
100
Type
Darkness
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
96/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Ryo Ueda

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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

10

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

Ice Wing

50

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, Darkness Veil. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,392 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

    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.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 724 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.

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