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Gastly (Fossil FO 33)
[P] Lick: 10
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
[P][P] Energy Conversion
Put up to 2 Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand. Gastly does 10 damage to itself.
weakness:
resistance: [F]-30
retreat: 0
Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
Fossil — 33/62 — Uncommon
A mysterious Pokémon. Some say it is a lifeform from another dimension, while other believe it is formed from smog.
achildrenscardgame
No Weakness, a relevant Resistance, no Retreat Cost, an average-but-not-awful HP stat AND an attack that can prevent an attack coming your way the next turn.
In one sense, a very good defensive Pokemon for an evolving Basic.
Otaku
For its time, this was a very good Gastly. Even the second attack which you mentioned was nearly good; had the cost been less it would have probably seen play. Sure we had Energy Retrieval, but this was pre-errata (you had to discard a card from hand to use it). Nightly Garbage Run was two sets away (Fossil => Base Set 2 => Team Rocket). More important was this card had a great Haunter to Evolve into, but the only Gengar was meh.