Magikarp (Team Rocket 47)

Magikarp LV.6 コイキング Koiking

Illus. Kagemaru Himeno

Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Magikarp Type Water HP 30 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Team Rocket Rarity English card no. 47/82 Japanese expansion Rocket Gang Japanese rarity TCG GB2 set We Are Team Rocket TCG GB2 ID G16 For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Magikarp.

Magikarp (Japanese: コイキング Koiking) is a Water-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Team Rocket expansion.

Card text

English release

Flop はねまわる 10

Rapid Evolution たきのぼりしんか

Search your deck for an Evolution card named Gyarados or Dark Gyarados and put it on Magikarp. (This counts as evolving Magikarp.) Shuffle your deck afterward.

Japanese release

Flop はねまわる 10

Rapid Evolution たきのぼりしんか

Search your deck for a card that evolves from Magikarp and put it on this Pokémon. (This counts as evolving this Pokémon.) Shuffle your deck afterward.

Pokédex data

Magikarp - Fish Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
129	2'11" (0.9 m)	22 lbs. (10 kg)
Pokédex entry
Recent research has revealed the presence of dragon DNA in this species of Pokémon.
最新の研究で、コイキングの体から竜のＤＮＡが検出されることが判明したらしい。

Release information

This card was included in the Team Rocket expansion, first released in the Rocket Gang expansion in Japan. In an attempt to be helpful by adding a reference of what cards evolve from Magikarp, the English release of this card's Rapid Evolution attack actually limits which cards can be selected when using this attack. A more precise translation would have allowed players to search their deck for cards that evolve from Magikarp, such as Gyarados ex, that are not named Gyarados or Dark Gyarados.

Trivia

The Rapid Evolution attack once allowed players to combo it with cards such as Recall to stack on as many of any combination of Gyarados and Dark Gyarados cards as he or she wished. A rule change was made in time for the Neo Genesis set that specifically forbade this kind of combo, deemed an "illegal evolution".

This is the only Magikarp print released both in Japan and internationally to have different rarity symbols, with a "Common" rarity in Japan and an "Uncommon" rarity internationally. This also means this is the last Magikarp to be given an Uncommon rarity.

Origin

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.