Arceus, Volcanion from CP5; More Info!
The official Pokemon Card website has revealed that the full art Arceus from our Mythical Pokemon Collections will also be included in CP5 as a regular art card. The same will apply to Volcanion – the full art version we saw the other day will also have a regular art version (as you can see below). The site mentions some cards will have two versions, so we can assume Magearna and the other Mythical Pokemon from our Mythical Pokemon Collections will also have them.
Our Zygarde prerelease promo was also revealed for Japan. However, it won’t be included in CP5 — it’ll be a promo in July 16th’s “Zygarde Special Set,” which is a blister pack that also comes with a holo Zygarde 10% forme and two XY11 booster packs.
CP5 is is a 36-card mini-set that will be released in Japan on July 16th. All Pokemon in the set will be Legendary or Mythical Pokemon, and all cards will be holo.
We can now account for most of the cards in the set. There’s 11 Mythical Pokemon from our Mythical Pokemon Collections in America, plus Volcanion and Magearna, which could mean that’s potentially 26 cards right there if each of them has a regular art version. Then we have Rayquaza-EX, Hoopa-EX, and Latios-EX from the Power Beyond Tins and Zygarde-EX, shiny Xerneas-EX, and shiny Yveltal-EX from the Shiny Kalos Tins. That’s now a potential total of 33 cards, leaving three more to the imagination.
How might those 13 regular art cards be released in America? Well, they could make them a sub-set and stick them into a reprint set to end the XY era like with Call of Legends and Legendary Treasures. We still don’t know if our next set will be a reprint set or if it’ll be the first Sun and Moon set, but history tells us it’s more likely to be the former. And now we have potential candidates for the sub-set portion… bleh.
Thanks goes to Michael S. for the translations below!
Arceus – Colorless – HP130
Basic Pokemon[C] Type Change: Choose either [G], [R], [W], [L], [P][, [F], [D], [M], [Y], or [N]. Until the end of your next turn, Arceus is that type.
[C][C][C][C] Power Blast: 120 damage. Discard an Energy card attached to Arceus.
Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1
Magearna – Metal – HP90
Basic Pokemon[C] Entertain: Heal 40 damage from 1 of your Benched Pokemon.
[M] Prism Wave: 20x damage. Does 20 damage times the number of different types of Pokemon on your opponent’s Bench.
Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: Metal (-20)
Retreat: 1
Volcanion – Fire – HP130
Basic Pokemon[R][C][C] Concentrated Fire: 50x damage. Flip a coin for each [R] Energy attached to this Pokemon. This attack does 50 damage times the number of heads.
[R][C][C][C] Flame Impact: 100 damage. Your opponent switches his or her Active Pokemon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokemon.
Weakness: Water (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 4
