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Raichu & Alolan Raichu (Japanese: ライチュウ&アローラライチュウGX Raichu & Alolan RaichuGX) is a Lightning-type Basic TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX card. It is part of the Unified Minds expansion.

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Release information

This card was included as a Regular card, a Full Art card, a Special Full Art card, and as a Secret Rainbow Rare in the Unified Minds expansion, first released in the Japanese GG End subset. The Regular print features artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita, the Full Art and Rainbow Rare prints feature artwork by ConceptLab, while the Special Full Art print features artwork by tetsuya koizumi.

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Trivia

Atsushi Nagashima, the game director of the TCG, has stated that this card was designed to further augment Lightning-based decks, including those based around Pikachu & Zekrom-GX.[1] Raichu and Alolan Raichu are featured on this card to contrast it from Pikachu & Zekrom-GX. This card's Lightning Ride-GX attack is intended to describe Raichu and its Alolan form surfing together.[2]

Origin

This card features the regular and Alolan forms of Raichu.

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