Magikarp (Team Rocket 47)

Magikarp (Japanese: コイキング Koiking) is a Water-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Team Rocket expansion.

Magikarp LV.6
コイキング Koiking

Illus. Kagemaru Himeno

Evolution stage

Basic Pokémon

Card name

30

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	Team Rocket
Rarity
English card no.	47/82
Japanese expansion	Rocket Gang
Japanese rarity

Card GB 2 set	We Are Team Rocket
Card GB 2 rarity
Card GB 2 ID	G16

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Magikarp.

Card text

English release

	Flop はねまわる	10

	Rapid Evolution たきのぼりしんか

Search your deck for an Evolution card named Gyarados or Dark Gyarados and put it on Magikarp. (This counts as evolving Magikarp.) Shuffle your deck afterward.

Japanese release

	Flop はねまわる	10

	Rapid Evolution たきのぼりしんか

Search your deck for a card that evolves from Magikarp and put it on this Pokémon. (This counts as evolving this Pokémon.) Shuffle your deck afterward.

Pokédex data

Water Water Magikarp - Fish Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
129	2'11" (0.9 m)	22 lbs. (10 kg)
Pokédex entry
Recent research has revealed the presence of dragon DNA in this species of Pokémon.
最新の研究で、コイキングの体から竜のＤＮＡが検出されることが判明したらしい。

Release information

This card was included in the Team Rocket expansion, first released in the Japanese Rocket Gang expansion. In an attempt to be helpful by adding a reference of what cards evolve from Magikarp, the English release of this card's Rapid Evolution attack actually limits which cards can be selected when using this attack. A more precise translation would have allowed players to search their deck for cards that evolve from Magikarp, such as Gyarados ex, that are not named Gyarados or Dark Gyarados.

Gallery

GB2 We Are Team Rocket sprite

Trivia

The Rapid Evolution attack once allowed players to combo it with cards such as Recall to stack on as many of any combination of Gyarados and Dark Gyarados cards as they wished. A rule change was made in time for the Neo Genesis set that specifically forbade this kind of combo, deemed an "illegal evolution".

Origin

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