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Gastly · Stormfront (SF) #62

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Gastly · 50 HP · {P}
Pokémon (Gastly) › Basic : Evolves into Haunter or Dark Haunter

{@} → Pitch-Dark
You opponent can’t play any Trainer cards from his or her hand during your opponent’s next turn.

{P} → Trick Gas : 10
You may switch Gastly with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

weak: {D}+10 | resist: {C}-20 | retreat: 1
illus. Aya Kusube · LV.14
Diamond & Pearl › Stormfront (SF, DP7) › #62/100 : Common · ↘ Nov 5, 2008
Formats: Modified: 2009, 2010, 2011
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This Pokémon’s body is 95% made up of gases, which are blown away by strong gusts of wind.

Rating

Overall: 86.67% (13 wins, 2 losses)

Within Set & Formats:

  • Stormfront: 100% (1 win, 0 losses)
  • DP-on (Modified 2009): 67% (2 wins, 1 loss)
  • DP-on (Modified 2010): n/a (0 wins, 0 losses)
  • MD-on (Modified 2011): 100% (2 wins, 0 losses)

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Reader Interactions

9 comments

  1. reshikrom64

    (13 years ago)

    This and the self-evolving Eevees are literally the best evolving basics ever to exist.

    Reply
    • Warnock 2022reshikrom64

      (2 years ago)

      Here’s the top Worlds deck that used four copies of this card: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Queengar_(TCG)

      Reply
  2. coolestman22

    (13 years ago)

    Love the art and first attack.

    Reply
  3. Blob Takeshi

    (8 years ago)

    Even though Poison was considered grass type in gens 1-3, the entirety of the Gastly line never once got a grass type card.

    Reply
  4. goldenchatot03

    (6 years ago)

    If playing unlimited, would cards like this and Spiritomb AR 32 retain the original intent of the card and block Items, or use the post-B&W definitions and block all Trainers?

    Reply
    • JP goldenchatot03

      (6 years ago)

      DP-era and HS-era cards that refer to “Trainers” now refer to Items in Unlimited. The old definition and the modern definition actually existed together in the same format–in the 2011 format, there were HS cards with the old definition of “Trainer” and BLW cards with the new terminology of “Item”, and it was played this way.

      Reply
  5. JP

    (6 years ago)

    Fun fact: this card has a typo (“You opponent”) and so does Team Magma’s Camerupt (“Mamga”). Both were printed in Worlds decks, and in the Worlds deck print the Team Magma’s Camerupt error was fixed… but the error remains even in the Worlds deck printing of Gastly!

    Reply
  6. Ambassador

    (2 years ago)

    This card appears to be an obtuse reference to “Vending” Gastly, a card that got put on the Hall of Fame list after Pokémon VS came out¹, due to the presumably unintended interaction it had with being able to stop the newly introduced Supporter cards. I say obtuse because the attack names are different; Vending Gastly’s こわがらせる [𝐊𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐮] vs. this Gastly’s まっくらやみ [𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐘𝐚𝐦𝐢]. The art is close-ish, though²?

    DP has a few kind-of-sort-of retrain cards like this – MT Rattata (as compared to Base Rattata), SW Lickitung (as compared to Vending Lickitung), MT Chansey (as compared to Base Chansey), et al., and, then we get to the retro cards that kick off with this set and continue into Platinum and subsequent sets that are much more overt about it.

    ¹ https://archive.ph/8cLEO
    ² https://pokumon.com/card/gastly-expansion-sheet-3-1998-vending/

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    • TwylisAmbassador

      (2 years ago)

      Crystal discusses that Gastly’s notoriety a bit further on Fossil Psyduck, which has a similar attack. Basically, Vending Gastly’s lack of weakness, Fighting resistance, and free retreat made it far more threatening than Psyduck was.

      Reply

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