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Cards/Altaria-GX
Altaria-GX card from the Hidden Fates Shiny Vault set
Illustration by 5ban Graphics. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Altaria-GX

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A sturdy Dragon type with powerful healing and protection abilities.

Dragon200 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

Altaria-GX has 200 HP and evolves from Swablu.

It can block damage from strong GX and EX Pokemon for one turn.

It deals heavy damage that ignores opponent defences.

Signature attack

Sonic Edge

This attack's damage isn't affected by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon. (110 damage)

The Euphoria-GX attack is the card's main feature. It puts the opponent's active Pokemon to sleep and heals all your Pokemon, giving you a major advantage in battle.

Attacks

FC
Bright Tone50

During your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX.

WFC
Sonic Edge110

This attack's damage isn't affected by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon.

FC
Euphoria-GX

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Asleep. Heal all damage from all of your Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Which deck it belongs in

This card suits decks that focus on healing and controlling the game pace. It works well with Fairy and Dragon energy types.

Strengths
  • High HP
  • Healing power
  • Damage protection
Watch out for
  • One GX attack limit
  • Fairy weakness
  • Complex energy costs
Pro tip

Use Bright Tone to protect Altaria-GX from big attacks while you set up your next move.

From the Pokédex

Altaria is known for its beautiful songs and fluffy cloud-like appearance.

Note for the parent

Remind your child they can only use one GX attack per game, so they should choose carefully when to activate Euphoria-GX.

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