Dark Celebi (EX Hidden Legends 4)

Dark Celebi
Ｒ団のセレビィ Rocket's Celebi

Illus. Ken Ikuji

Evolution stage

Card name

HP

70

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	EX Hidden Legends
Rarity
English card no.	4/101
Japanese expansion	Rocket Gang Strikes Back
Japanese rarity
Japanese card no.	071/084

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

Dark Celebi (Japanese: Ｒ団のセレビィ Rocket's Celebi) is a dual-type Grass/Darkness Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the EX Hidden Legends expansion.

Card text

This Pokémon is both type

	Dark Provide ダークプロバイド

Attach up to 1 or Energy card from your hand to your Pokémon.

	Leaf Poison どくのこな	20

The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Trivia

Dark Celebi is the first Pokémon with "Dark" in its name to be dual-typed with Darkness and its own type, a mechanic more prominently featured in the EX Team Rocket Returns expansion, which, in Japan, this card was a part of. The reason for its inclusion in EX Hidden Legends is unknown, but it is possible Pokémon USA wanted to display more dual-type variety other than Psychic and Metal. It is also the first, and only, Basic Pokémon to be a Dark Pokémon.
The Japanese name of the card is R団のセレビィ Rocket's Celebi, and it is purely a Darkness-type card, as with all Rocket's Pokémon in the expansion.

Origin

This card references the fate of the Celebi of Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, which was captured in a Dark Ball by the Iron-Masked Marauder.
Leaf Poison's Japanese name is that of Poison Powder, a move in the Pokémon games that Celebi cannot learn.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.