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Articuno
Japanese promo · 1999

Articuno

How it was given out: 64 Mario Stadium Best Photo Contest.

Japanese promo, released 1999.

One of 278 promos from 1999 to 2003 listed on this site.

Basic · Water · HP 70

Freeze Dry 30

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Blizzard 50

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. If tails, this attack does 10 damage to each of your own Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita

This card was included in the Fossil expansion as both a Holofoil and Non-Holofoil card, first released in the Japanese Mystery of the Fossils expansion as only a Holofoil card. In Japan, this card was reprinted as a phone card with new artwork by Ken Sugimori in Fall 1997, as a lottery prize from the published "Pokémon Card Strategy For Adults" guidebook.

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