
Butterfree
Base Set 2 · #34
Overview
Legality, special rules, and flavor text
Format legality
- StandardNot Legal
- UnlimitedLegal
- ExpandedNot Legal
- Gym Leader ChallengeNot Legal
Flavor text
In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.
Card details
Printing, type line, and catalog data
Identity & printing
- Card ID
- base4-34--normal
- Name
- Butterfree
- Number
- 34
- Printed number
- 34/130
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Rarity code
- ♦
Set, artist & references
- Artist
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Language
- English
- Set name
- Base Set 2
- Game name
- Pokémon
Battle
Abilities, attacks, weakness & resistance
Attacks
- Whirlwind20Cost: 2
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)
- Mega Drain40Cost: 4
Remove a number of damage counters from Butterfree equal to half the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance) (rounded up to the nearest 10). If Butterfree has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.
Weaknesses
- Fire ×2
Resistances
- Fighting -30
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