Once during your turn, you may use this Ability. Choose a card in your hand that evolves from this Pokémon and put it onto this Pokémon to evolve it. If you do, place 2 damage counters on the Pokémon you evolved in this way. You can't use this Ability during your first turn.
Artwork is identical across finishes; the holo or reverse shimmer is indicative.
Story & meaning
This is a Common Basic Pokémon card of Phantump (Card #38) from the 'Chaos Rising' set, an English-language printing. As a Common Basic card, it would typically serve as an early-evolution play option; note that 'Chaos Rising' is not a…
“According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest.”
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About this card
This is a Common Basic Pokémon card of Phantump (Card #38) from the 'Chaos Rising' set, an English-language printing. As a Common Basic card, it would typically serve as an early-evolution play option; note that 'Chaos Rising' is not a recognized official Pokémon TCG set, so specific artwork or gameplay details for this particular card cannot be reliably confirmed.
History
Phantump is a dual Ghost/Grass-type Pokémon introduced in Generation VI (Pokémon X and Y), depicted as a small, hollow tree stump inhabited by a wandering spirit. According to lore, it is the spirit of a child who became lost and died in the forest, now possessing an old stump; it mimics a child's voice to lure people deep into the woods. Despite this eerie behavior, it is said that those who befriend it can be guided safely out of the forest, and it evolves into the larger Trevenant.
Name & meaning
The Japanese name ボクレー (Bokurē) combines 木 (boku, an on'yomi reading meaning 'tree' or 'wood'), often associated with the word 朽ちる (kuchiru, 'to rot/decay') or 株 (kabu, 'stump'), with レー evoking a ghostly, spectral sound (suggestive of a wail or the English 'wraith'). The English name 'Phantump' is a portmanteau of 'phantom' (reflecting its Ghost typing and ghostly nature) and 'stump' (referencing its tree-stump body and its Stump Pokémon category).