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Butterfree
Legendary Collection 21/110 • rare
- Set
- Legendary Collection
- Number
- 21/110
- Rarity
- Rare
- Released
- 2002
- Energy type
- grass energy
- Market price
- $9.24
- Artist
- Kagemaru Himeno
What it does
Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon, if any. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)
Remove a number of damage counters from Butterfree equal of half the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance) (rounded up to the nearest 10). If Butterfree has fewer damage counters that that, remove all of them.
In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- ExpandedNot legal
- UnlimitedLegal
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Where it came from
Released in 2002, the Legendary Collection served as a nostalgic retrospective for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, bringing together iconic cards from the original Base Set, Jungle, and Fossil expansions. The set is particularly noted for its introduction of the 'reverse holographic' foil pattern, where the entire card face is covered in a prismatic firework-like sheen, distinguishing it from the standard holographic releases of the late 1990s.
The Butterfree card, numbered 21/110, features artwork originally commissioned for the Jungle expansion by illustrator Mitsuhiro Arita. Arita's style for this piece emphasizes the naturalistic, moth-like anatomy of the creature against a soft, atmospheric background. While the Legendary Collection reissued this card with the modern-era card frame and the distinctive reverse holo treatment, the art remained faithful to the original aesthetic, which was widely praised for its balance of creature design and gentle coloring.
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