Our next freebie is the final evolution of the Tynamo line, the powerful Eelektross. This is a 1st Edition holographic card from the XY-era set Tidal Storm, featuring a wonderfully moody illustration by the legendary Mitsuhiro Arita.
Card Details
- Pokémon Name: Eelektross (シビルドン)
- Set: Tidal Storm (XY5)
- Year: 2014
- Card Number: 039-070
- Rarity/Edition: Holo Rare (1st Edition)
- Artist: Mitsuhiro Arita
- National Pokédex No.: 604
Card Text & Attacks
- Type: Electric
- HP: 140
- Evolves From: Eelektrik
Ability: Energy Connect
- Japanese: エナジーコネクト
- Romaji: Enajī Konekuto
- Effect: As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may move a basic Energy from 1 of your Benched Pokémon to your Active Pokémon.
Attack: Elekiball
- Japanese: エレキほう
- Romaji: Ereki Hō
- English: Electricannon
- Cost: [Electric][Electric][Colourless][Colourless]
- Damage: 80+
- Effect: You may discard all Electric Energy attached to this Pokémon. If you do, this attack does 50 more damage.
- Weakness: Fighting x2
- Resistance: Metal -20
- Retreat Cost: [Colourless][Colourless][Colourless]
Pokédex Entry:
- Japanese: 腕の 力で 海から はい出し 沿岸の 浅瀬に 襲いかかる。一瞬で 獲物を 海へ 引きずりこむ。
- Romaji: Ude no chikara de umi kara haidashi engan no asase ni osoikakaru. Isshun de emono o umi e hikizurikomu.
- English: With the strength of its arms, it crawls onto land and attacks prey on the shallow coast. In an instant, it drags its prey into the sea.
Collector’s Notes
This Eelektross is a 1st Edition Holo Rare from the Japanese set Tidal Storm (XY5). As a 1st Edition from the 2014 print run, it’s a lovely artefact from the mid-XY era. Its “Energy Connect” ability was famously powerful in a previous incarnation during the Black & White TCG era, making this card a nostalgic nod for long-time players.
The artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita is a fantastic piece of storytelling. Arita’s mastery of light and shadow is on full display, depicting Eelektross lurking in a dark, underwater cave or ravine. The light filtering down from the surface illuminates the scene, catching the Pokémon’s form and the surrounding bubbles. It creates a sense of mystery and predatory power, perfectly matching the creature described in the Pokédex entry.
As a Friend of Geopik, Eelektross has a fascinating, if indirect, connection to our theme. It is an “EleFish Pokémon” that lives in the deepest parts of the ocean. Its habitat is the abyssal plain and the deep-sea trenches—the most remote and extreme geological environments on our planet. It is a creature of immense pressure and darkness, a world shaped by tectonic trenches and volcanic vents. The artwork’s depiction of a dark, cavernous underwater space perfectly evokes this connection to deep-ocean geology.
