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Dark Sandslash

Pokémon · Stage1 · TR 18

Dark Sandslash
Fighting Darkness

Card

Set
Team Rocket Returns
Number
18/109
Rarity
Rare
Category
Pokémon
HP
70
Stage
Stage1
Evolves from
Sandshrew
Illustrator
Masakazu Fukuda

What it does

Poke-BODY Poison Payback

If Dark Sandslash is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an opponent's attack (even if Dark Sandslash is Knocked Out), the Attacking Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Colorless Colorless Colorless Swift 50

This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness, Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.

In play

Weakness
Grass ×2
Retreat cost
0

Where you can play it

The same check the deck builder makes.

  • Ditto Draft
  • Expanded
  • Gym Leader Challenge
  • Legacy
  • Standard — Dark Sandslash is not Standard-legal (regulation mark out of rotation).
  • Worlds 2015 — Dark Sandslash is from a set that isn't legal in Worlds 2015.