Our second new arrival is an otherworldly and powerful creature: the Ultra Beast, Nihilego-GX. This Double Rare card from the Sun & Moon era set GX Battle Boost features a full-art, textured holographic treatment that perfectly captures the strange energy of this extradimensional being.
Card Details
- Pokémon Name: Nihilego-GX (ウツロイドGX)
- Set: GX Battle Boost (SM4+)
- Year: 2017
- Card Number: 022/050
- Rarity/Edition: Double Rare (RR) – Pokémon-GX
- Artist: 5ban Graphics
- National Pokédex No.: 793
Card Text & Attacks
- Type: Psychic
- HP: 180
- Ability: Empty Light (うつろなひかり)
- Effect: When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may leave both Active Pokémon Poisoned and Confused.
- Attack 1: Lock Up (とじこめる)
- Cost: [Psychic][Psychic][Psychic]
- Damage: 120
- Effect: During your opponent’s next turn, the Pokémon damaged by this attack can’t retreat.
- GX Attack: Parasite GX (パラサイトGX)
- Cost: [Psychic][Psychic][Psychic]
- Effect: Take the top 2 cards of your opponent’s deck and put them face down as their Prize cards. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
- Weakness: Psychic x2
- Resistance: None
- Retreat Cost: [Colourless][Colourless]
- Rule Box: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
Collector’s Notes
This Nihilego-GX is a powerful card from the Sun & Moon era, representing a special class of extradimensional Pokémon known as “Ultra Beasts.” These creatures were a major feature of the Alola region’s lore and had a distinct, alien aesthetic. The artwork by 5ban Graphics captures this perfectly, depicting the ethereal, jellyfish-like creature floating in a dark, energy-filled space.
Nihilego is a premier and fascinating Geological Pokémon. While its TCG type is Psychic (representing its Poison and otherworldly nature), in the video games it is a dual-type Rock/Poison Pokémon. Its body is described as being made of a substance similar to glass. Glass is a non-crystalline, amorphous solid, and its natural form, obsidian (volcanic glass), is a type of igneous rock. Nihilego is, in essence, a sentient, parasitic being made of a glass-like geological material, making it one of the most unique specimens in our collection.
