Dark Celebi (EX Hidden Legends 4)

Dark Celebi   Ｒ団のセレビィ Rocket's Celebi

Illus. Ken Ikuji

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Dark Celebi Types Grass/Darkness HP 70 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion EX Hidden Legends Rarity English card no. 4/101 Japanese expansion Rocket Gang Strikes Back Japanese rarity Japanese card no. 071/084 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Celebi.

Dark Celebi (Japanese: Ｒ団のセレビィ Rocket's Celebi) is a dual-type Grass/Darkness Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the EX Hidden Legends expansion.

Card text

This Pokémon is both type

Dark Provide ダークプロバイド

Attach up to 1 or Energy card from your hand to your Pokémon.

Leaf Poison どくのこな 20

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Trivia

• Dark Celebi is the first Pokémon with "Dark" in its name to be dual-typed with Darkness and its own type, a mechanic more prominently featured in the EX Team Rocket Returns expansion, which, in Japan, this card was a part of. The reason for its inclusion in EX Hidden Legends is unknown, but it is possible Pokémon USA wanted to display more dual-type variety other than Psychic and Metal. It is also the first, and only, Basic Pokémon to be a Dark Pokémon.
• The Japanese name of the card is R団のセレビィ Rocket's Celebi, and it is purely a Darkness-type card, as with all Rocket's Pokémon in the expansion.

Origin

• This card references the fate of the Celebi of Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, which was captured in a Dark Ball by the Iron-Masked Marauder. Despite that, the Pokémon featured on the card, however, does not appear to be the same one from the movie, since it depicts Celebi with its eye pupils unchanged.
• Leaf Poison's Japanese name is that of Poison Powder, a move in the Pokémon games that Celebi cannot learn.

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