AbilityDarkness Shade
Once during your turn, when you put Darkrai from your hand onto your Bench, you may choose 1 of the Defending Pokémon. That Pokémon is now Asleep.
Darkrai 3/100 · Majestic Dawn
Darkrai is Pokédex #491, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Darkrai is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists level 48.
Darkrai sits at 3/100 in Majestic Dawn, position 3 of 100. Before it is 2 Cresselia, and after it is 4 Dialga. The set belongs to the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on May 1, 2008. The printed size is 100, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.
Darkness Shade is listed as Poké-Power. Once during your turn, when you put Darkrai from your hand onto your Bench, you may choose 1 of the Defending Pokémon. That Pokémon is now Asleep. The attack Dark Slumber lists 10 damage. The cost is Darkness. At the end of your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep. Dark Resolve is another attack lists 40 damage. The cost is Darkness, Darkness, Colorless. If the Defending Pokémon is Asleep, remove 4 damage counters from Darkrai. Weakness is Fighting +20. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "It can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon."
Darkrai (#491) has 40 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 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 80 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Holo. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 38 other cards of Darkrai list a different HP.
The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.
Majestic Dawn set binder is where a full Majestic Dawn set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Darkrai can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.
Card facts
- Number
- 3/100
- Series
- Diamond & Pearl
- Released
- May 1, 2008
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Supertype
- Pokémon
- Subtypes
- Basic
- HP
- 80
- Type
- Darkness
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Pokédex
- Darkrai (#491)
- Level
- 48
- Weakness
- Fighting +20
- Resistance
- Psychic -20
- Retreat
- 2
Attacks and card text
AttackDark Slumber
At the end of your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
AttackDark Resolve
If the Defending Pokémon is Asleep, remove 4 damage counters from Darkrai.
Flavor text
It can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon.
Binders this card belongs in
Other printings in the list
Next to it in the set
Questions about this card
What set does Darkrai belong to?
Majestic Dawn, in the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on May 1, 2008. The printed size is 100.
Which number is printed on this card?
3/100. It is entry 3 of 100 in this checklist.
Who illustrated it?
Mitsuhiro Arita. The catalog lists 721 other cards with that illustrator.
What rarity is listed?
Rare Holo.
What Pokédex number does the card use?
Darkrai #491, generation 4 (Sinnoh).
Which attacks are printed?
Dark Slumber (10) and Dark Resolve (40).