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Raichu
ライチュウ Raichu
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Raichu (Japanese: ライチュウ Raichu) is a Lightning-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It was released as one of the Japanese BW-P Promotional cards. It was planned to be one of the English BW Black Star Promos, but it was never released.
Card text
 
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Quick Attack
でんこうせっか
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30+
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| Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 more damage.
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Thunder Blast
サンダーブラスト
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90
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| Discard an Energy attached to this Pokémon.
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Pokédex data
| Raichu - Mouse Pokémon
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Height
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Weight
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| 026
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2'07" (0.8 m)
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66.1 lbs. (30.0 kg)
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| Pokédex entry
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| Its tail discharges electricity into the ground, protecting it from getting shocked.
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| しっぽが アースの やくめをはたして でんきを じめんに にがすので じぶんじしんは しびれたりしない。
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Release information
In Japan, this card was released as one of the BW-P Promotional cards and awarded to participants of the Pokémon Card Game Classroom deck building learning events held during May 2012. Those who had already participated in at least one session were awarded a Pikachu promotional card. Participants using that card in their deck in another session were awarded this card.
Pikachu and Raichu were planned to be released in the Plasma Freeze Three Pack Blisters, but due to the cancellation of an English Landorus Box, BW Promos Landorus and Druddigon were issued in the Blister Packs instead of Pikachu and Raichu. Because of this abrupt change in products, there was not enough time for this promotional card to be repurposed into a different promotional product and remains unissued.
On July 21, 2014, Pokémon.com updated their card database with images of all 101 BW Black Star Promos, releasing images of the two previously unknown promotional cards falling at BW77 and BW78. By the end of the night, however, the official site had removed any trace of the Pikachu and Raichu cards. They were still visible in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online and Pokémon Trading Card Game Live but not available for trading or crafting with Crystals.
Trivia
Origin
Quick Attack is a move in the Pokémon games that Raichu can learn. This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Black and White.
