Zapdos (Promotional Card P10)

Zapdos LV.68
サンダー Thunder

Illus. Ken Sugimori

Evolution stage

Card name

HP

100

weakness None	resistance -30	retreat cost

Card GB set	Promotional Card
Card GB ID	P10
Card GB 2 set	Promotion Card
Card GB 2 rarity
Card GB 2 ID	P18

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

Zapdos (Japanese: サンダー Thunder) is a Lightning-type Basic Pokémon card. It is a card made exclusively for the Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color.

Card text

Pokémon Power:

Peal of Thunder
カミングサンダー

When you put Zapdos into play during your turn (not during set-up), do 30 damage to a Pokémon other than Zapdos chosen at random. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance.)

	Big Thunder ビッグサンダー

Choose a Pokémon other than Zapdos at random. This attack does 70 damage to that Pokémon. Don't apply Weakness or Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.)

Pokédex data

Zapdos - Electric Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
145	5'3" (1.6 m)	116 lbs. (52.6 kg)
Pokédex entry
This legendary bird Pokémon is said to appear when the sky turns dark and lightning showers down.
雲の上から巨大な稲妻を落としながら現れる、伝説の鳥ポケモンである。

Release information

This card was made exclusively for the Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, never printed as an actual card in any language. However, a scan of the non-existent full card was included in Pokémon Card Official Book 2000.

Gallery

GB1 Promotional Card sprite

GB2 Promotion Card sprite

Trivia

This card displays a 'GB' symbol in place of the Expansion symbol, indicating it was created exclusively for the Game Boy.
This is one of the four Legendary Cards, which are central to the plot of Pokémon Trading Card Game, and its sequel Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!.
This card uses the same stock art of Zapdos that was previously used on the promotional phone card print of Zapdos.

Origin

The card's English Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Yellow, whereas the Japanese entry comes from Pokémon Red and Blue.

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