Character info
The character
Garganacl is a Rock-type Pokemon known as the Rock Pile Pokemon, evolving from Naclstack. It forms towering structures of salt crystals and rock around itself, and is noted in Pokemon lore for using salt to heal injured Pokemon. It is a powerful, defensive presence in its native games, often depicted as a stoic guardian of salt flats and rocky terrain.
This card
This is Garganacl from the Mega Evolution set, numbered 147 out of 132 cards, marking it as a secret rare within the set's numbering. It is illustrated by Yano Keiji, who depicts the Pokemon as a massive stacked formation of salt-crusted boulders set against a dark, star-strewn sky lit by distant fires. The card is a Stage 2 Pokemon with a holo treatment and carries the AR rarity designation.
How it plays
Garganacl is a Stage 2 Fighting-type Pokemon with 180 HP. Its Ability, Powerful a-Salt, boosts damage by 30 for attacks used by your Fighting-type Pokemon against the opponent's Active Pokemon, applied before Weakness and Resistance. Its attack, Hammer In, costs two Fighting Energy and one Colorless Energy and deals 130 damage. It is weak to Grass-type attacks (x2), has no listed resistance, and requires four Energy to retreat.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Mega Evolution, a set of 132 cards, rarity AR. The details on this certificate match it.
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About this card
#934 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IX Pokémon · 55 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Naclstack.
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Authenticity
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