Darkrai 3/106 · Great Encounters

Great Encounters is a set in the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on February 1, 2008. The printed size is 106, and the checklist is the same length. Darkrai is 3/106, in position 3 of 106 on this checklist. Before it is 2 Cresselia, and after it is 4 Darkrai. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Darkrai is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 70 HP. The card lists level 38. In the Pokédex this is Darkrai (#491), generation 4 (Sinnoh).

Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this card. The same name is on 471 other cards in the catalog.

Darkrai (#491) has 40 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Darkrai LV.X DP19/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Darkrai LV.X, while this one is Darkrai. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Holo. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 40 other cards of Darkrai list a different HP.

The attack Reach Over lists no damage number. Search your deck for an Energy card, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. Darkness Pursuit is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Darkness, Darkness, Darkness. If the Defending Pokémon is Cresselia, this attack's base damage is 100. Weakness is Fighting +20. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon."

I keep a set binder for Great Encounters, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Great Encounters set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Darkrai can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.