Dark Arbok - Pokemon Team Rocket #19
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Dark Arbok Card Facts & History
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Card History
Dark Arbok is one of the signature Dark Pokémon from the Team Rocket expansion, the landmark set that introduced Dark Pokémon to the TCG and gave them a more aggressive, lower-HP design identity collectors still associate with villain-era cards.
Set Lore
This non-holo Rare version of Dark Arbok comes from Team Rocket’s April 24, 2000 English release, a set remembered for bringing Team Rocket’s corruption theme directly into pack openings.
Artist
Mitsuhiro Arita gave Dark Arbok a unique hood pattern created specifically for the TCG, an evil grin-and-mask design that does not match Arbok’s standard game patterns and makes this artwork especially distinctive to collectors.
Card History
Dark Arbok feels especially tied to the anime because Arbok was Jessie’s primary battling Pokémon for much of the original series, making any Team Rocket-era Arbok card instantly resonate with fans of the show’s earliest years.
Card History
Dark Arbok was also featured in the Team Rocket ‘Trouble’ Theme Deck, giving the card extra nostalgia as both a pack-pulled rare and a face card of one of the era’s villain-themed preconstructed decks.