Our next entry is the delightfully sweet Slurpuff, the “Meringue Pokémon.” This is a 1st Edition holographic card from the XY-era set Phantom Gate. While it may seem like an unusual entry for a geology-themed archive, this charming Pokémon brings its own unique flavour to the collection.
Card Details
- Pokémon Name: Slurpuff (ペロリーム)
- Set: Phantom Gate (XY4)
- Year: 2014
- Card Number: 062-088
- Rarity/Edition: Holo Rare (1st Edition)
- Artist: sui
- National Pokédex No.: 685
Card Text & Attacks
- Type: Fairy
- HP: 90
- Evolves From: Swirlix
Ability: Tasting
- Japanese: テイスティング
- Romaji: Teisutingu
- Effect: Once during your turn, you may draw a card. If this Pokémon is in the Active Spot, draw 1 more card.
Attack: Light Pulse
- Japanese: ひかりのはどう
- Romaji: Hikari no Hadō
- Cost: [Fairy][Colourless][Colourless]
- Damage: 60
- Effect: During your opponent’s next turn, this Pokémon isn’t affected by the effects of attacks.
- Weakness: Metal x2
- Resistance: Dark -20
- Retreat Cost: [Colourless]
Pokédex Entry:
- Japanese: わずかなにおいでも かぎわける 敏感な きゅうかくを 活かして パティシエの 手伝いをしている。
- Romaji: Wazukana nioi demo kagiwakeru binkan na kyūkaku o ikashite patishie no tetsudai o shiteiru.
- English: It uses its sensitive sense of smell, which can distinguish even the faintest of odours, to help pastry chefs.
Collector’s Notes
This Slurpuff is a 1st Edition Holo Rare from the Japanese set Phantom Gate (XY4), released in 2014. As an early XY-era card, its 1st Edition stamp adds a nice layer of collectability. The card’s beautiful “cosmos” holographic pattern creates a sparkling, dream-like effect in the background, perfectly suiting this whimsical Pokémon.
The artwork by sui is wonderfully charming and sweet. Sui is an artist known for a soft, storybook illustration style that brings a gentle and often playful personality to the Pokémon they draw. This piece is a perfect example, showing a content Slurpuff in a lovely garden at night, with a city skyline in the distance. It’s a peaceful and endearing scene that captures the Pokémon’s pleasant nature.
As a “friend of the collection,” Slurpuff’s connection to our geological theme is a fun exercise in chemistry. Slurpuff is the Meringue Pokémon, based on a confection made primarily of sugar. While not a rock, sugar (sucrose) is a fascinating substance because it can form crystals. In the world of mineralogy, a substance is considered a mineral if it is a naturally occurring, solid, crystalline substance with a defined chemical structure. By a strict definition, the crystalline sugar in a sugar cane fits this description! We can therefore think of Slurpuff as a representative of “organic minerals,” a sweet and delightful counterpoint to the hard silicates and carbonates of its rock-type brethren.
