Giratina 27/127 · Platinum

Giratina is Pokédex #487, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Giratina is a Basic Psychic Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists level 59.

Giratina sits at 27/127 in Platinum, position 27 of 133. Before it is 26 Empoleon, and after it is 28 Giratina. The set belongs to the Platinum series. It was released on 11 February 2009. The printed size is 127. This checklist is longer, at 133 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Strafe lists 20 damage. The cost is Psychic, Colorless. You may switch Giratina with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Broken-space Blow is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Psychic, Colorless, Colorless. If the Defending Pokémon is Knocked Out by this attack, put the Defending Pokémon and all cards attached to in the Lost Zone instead of the discard pile. Weakness is Darkness ×2. Resistance is Colorless -20. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "A Pokémon that is said to live in a world on the reverse side of ours. It appears in an ancient cemetery."

Giratina (#487) has 29 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2023. The earliest other card is Giratina LV.X DP38/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Giratina LV.X, while this one is Giratina. That card lists 130 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. 26 other cards of Giratina list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Platinum set binder is where a full Platinum set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Giratina can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards and Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. I still need this card.