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Moltres LV.33
ファイヤー Fire
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Moltres (Japanese: ファイヤー Fire) is a Fire-type Basic Pokémon card. It was first released as one of the Wizards Black Star Promos.
Card text
Wizards Black Star Promo print
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Flip a coin. If heads, discard 1  Energy card attached to Moltres. If tails, discard all Energy cards attached to Moltres. If you can't discard Energy cards, this attack does nothing.
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Pokédex data (Wizards Black Star Promo print)
| Moltres - Flame Pokémon
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Height
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Weight
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| 146
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6'7" (2 m)
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132 lbs. (60 kg)
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| Pokédex entry
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| The flames on this legendary Pokémon's wings burn so brightly that they can make night seem like day.
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| 夜空さえも赤くするほど、はげしく燃え上がるつばさではばたく、伝説のポケモン。
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Supreme Victors print
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| Flip a coin. If heads, discard a Energy attached to Moltres. If tails, discard all Energy attached to Moltres.
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Pokédex data (Supreme Victors print)
| Moltres - Flame Pokémon
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Height
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Weight
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| 146
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6'07" (2.0 m)
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132.3 lbs. (60.0 kg)
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| Pokédex entry
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| The flames on this legendary Pokémon's wings burn so brightly that they can make night seem like day.
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| よぞらさえも あかくするほど、 はげしく もえあがる つばさで はばたく、 でんせつの ポケモン。
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Release information
In Japan, this card was first released as an Unnumbered Promotional card with artwork by Toshinao Aoki and was distributed by All Nippon Airlines between August 1 and September 30, 1999. Passengers flying in conjunction with the "Everyone's Happy Campaign" could redeem two domestic boarding pass stubs for a two-card set that included Moltres and Zapdos. Stubs were required to be affixed to special postcards and mailed to Media Factory. The postcards could be obtained from airport counters or from the ANA branch office. The English version was one of the Wizards Black Star Promos given away in the first few weeks of the theatrical release of The Power of One, with new artwork by Naoyo Kimura. The original Japanese artwork was eventually featured on English cards when reprinted in Supreme Victors as a retro card, having previously been released in the Japanese Beat of the Frontier expansion.
Gallery
Trivia
- The initial print of the Wizards promo erroneously credited Toshinao Aoki as the illustrator, who illustrated the Japanese promo. Wizards rectified the error, with subsequent prints correctly crediting Naoyo Kimura as the illustrator. However, the change was brought about close to or after the release of the film, so it is likely that fewer people received the correct version later into the campaign compared to those who received the misprint earlier.
- The artwork used on the Japanese Unnumbered Promotional print and the Supreme Victors print is part of a combined illustration that includes Articuno and Zapdos.
- This card is very similar to Moltres from the Pokémon Web expansion, with the addition of
Weakness, and it uses the same artwork as the Wizards Black Star Promotional print.
Origin
This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Yellow, though it is reworded.
