AbilityPsychic Recharge
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Psychic Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Malamar SM117/248 · SM Black Star Promos
SM Black Star Promos is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on February 3, 2017. The printed size is 248. This checklist is longer, at 251 cards. Malamar is SM117/248, in position 120 of 251 on this checklist. Before it is SM116 Xurkitree, and after it is SM118 Lycanroc. The listed rarity is Promo.
Malamar is a Stage 1 Psychic Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Malamar (#687), generation 6 (Kalos). The card says it evolves from Inkay. In this catalog that name is Inkay (#686).
Shin Nagasawa illustrated this card. The same name is on 303 other cards in the catalog.
Malamar (#687) has 21 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2013 to 2026. The earliest other card is Malamar XY58/211 in XY Black Star Promos (2013). Both list 90 HP. Both list the rarity Promo. 5ban Graphics illustrated that card, and Shin Nagasawa illustrated this one. 17 other cards of Malamar list a different HP.
Psychic Recharge is listed as Ability. Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Psychic Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. The attack Psychic Sphere lists 60 damage. The cost is Psychic, Psychic, Colorless. Weakness is Psychic ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "It lures prey close with hypnotic motions, then wraps its tentacles around it before finishing it off with digestive fluids."
I keep a set binder for SM Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the SM Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Malamar can fill a slot in Generation 6 binder (Kalos). I still need this card.
Card facts
- Number
- SM117/248
- Series
- Sun & Moon
- Released
- February 3, 2017
- Rarity
- Promo
- Supertype
- Pokémon
- Subtypes
- Stage 1
- HP
- 90
- Type
- Psychic
- Illustrator
- Shin Nagasawa
- Pokédex
- Malamar (#687)
- Evolves from
- Inkay
- Weakness
- Psychic ×2
- Retreat
- 2
Attacks and card text
AttackPsychic Sphere
Flavor text
It lures prey close with hypnotic motions, then wraps its tentacles around it before finishing it off with digestive fluids.
Binders this card belongs in
Other printings in the list
Next to it in the set
Questions about this card
Which set is Malamar from?
SM Black Star Promos, in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on February 3, 2017. The printed size is 248.
What is the collector number?
SM117/248. It is entry 120 of 251 in this checklist.
Who illustrated it?
Shin Nagasawa. The catalog lists 303 other cards with that illustrator.
What rarity is listed?
Promo.
What Pokédex number does the card use?
Malamar #687, generation 6 (Kalos).
Which attacks are printed?
Psychic Sphere (60).