Articuno 17 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 70 HP and a top attack printed at 50 damage.
Water · Basic · Fossil · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Articuno 17 do in a game?
Articuno 17 is a Water Pokémon card with 70 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Blizzard, is printed at 50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.
Articuno 17Fossil
Articuno 17 performance summary
70 HP · Water · Basic · retreat 2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3
Strongest on Top printed damage — top 50.4% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 17.4%.
Each spoke is this card's place among every card in the archive that prints that figure. Further out is stronger — retreat and attack cost are shown as lightness, so a cheap card reaches outward. Counted July 28, 2026.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 25.7% | 70 HP |
| Top printed damage | 49.6% | 50 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 28.4% | 13 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 17.4% | 3 Energy |
2 attacks printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.
Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 10,622 at 70 HP.
Articuno 1770 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 310 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Articuno 17
- Hit points 70 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 13 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
- Legality 6 of the 43 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Articuno 17 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 70 HP printed as Basic, printed in Fossil.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 50 damage for 4 Energy.
- What it costs to move. 2 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Unlimited only.
- What this page does not claim. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published here, because the card files this site reads do not contain them.
What do the attacks on Articuno 17 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 4 Energy and returns 50 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freeze Dry | 3 Water | 3 | 30 | 10 | Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. |
| Blizzard | 4 Water | 4 | 50 | 13 | Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. If tails, this attack does 10 damage to each of your own Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) |
Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
What each attack asks a deck to attach before it can be used, drawn as the symbols printed on the card.
One Energy card attaches per turn, so the number of symbols is also the number of turns the attack waits.
How does Articuno 17 compare with every other card?
Each bar below is the whole archive cut by one printed figure, with the band this card falls into marked. A number on its own says nothing about whether it is high or low — the shape of the archive does.

The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.
This card prints 70 HP, which is 18% of that ceiling.
Every figure in this panel is counted the same way: from the card files this site reads, read July 28, 2026, over the 17,290 cards that print an HP figure. Each bar is measured against the tallest HP in the archive, 380 HP.
17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 70 HP.
Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 — this card | 38.6% | 6,669 cards |
| 80~120 | 33.1% | 5,725 cards |
| 130~180 | 15.5% | 2,679 cards |
| 190~230 | 6.6% | 1,148 cards |
| 240~280 | 3.3% | 567 cards |
| 290~330 | 2.4% | 412 cards |
| 340+ | 0.5% | 90 cards |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 50.
Cards in the 40~60 band typically have 101 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 — this card | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 | 21.8% | 3,535 cards |
| 130~180 | 9.0% | 1,461 cards |
| 190~250 | 3.8% | 621 cards |
| 260+ | 0.8% | 125 cards |
17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 3 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 3 typically have 153 HP and print 104 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 — this card | 14.7% | 2,533 cards |
| 4 | 2.4% | 421 cards |
| 5 | 0.3% | 47 cards |
17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 — this card | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Articuno 17 stands highest on HP — number 16 of 58 cards in Fossil. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 70 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 50 damage
middle half 20–90 damage
- Lowest to highest printed in the archive
- Middle half of the archive
- This card
Each row is stretched from the lowest printed figure to the highest, so the two rows are not on one shared scale — read each row on its own.
Open the group this card falls into
Back to summaryIs Articuno 17 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 50 damage attack that needs 4 Energy and one that needs two are different cards. Dividing one by the other puts every attack on the same scale.
Each bar is what cards asking that much Energy typically print, divided by the Energy they ask for. The number beside the bar is that figure.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 3 typically return 34.7 damage per Energy card. This card returns 13.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Energy | 49.0 | 49 damage typical |
| 2 Energy | 32.5 | 65 damage typical |
| 3 Energy | 34.7 | 104 damage typical |
| 4 Energy | 27.8 | 111 damage typical |
| 5 Energy | 41.8 | 209 damage typical |
| Articuno 17 — this card | 13.0 | 50 damage for 4 Energy |
Further right is a costlier attack, further up is a harder-hitting one, so the cheap and heavy corner is top left. The size of a grey dot is how many cards sit at that Energy cost.
| Group | Typical printed damage | Damage per Energy card | Cards in this group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy | 45 | — | 304 |
| Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy | 49 | 49 | 9,392 |
| Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy | 65 | 33 | 4,565 |
| Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy | 104 | 35 | 2,533 |
| Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy | 111 | 28 | 421 |
| Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy | 209 | 42 | 47 |
| Freeze Dry | — | 10 | — |
| Blizzard | — | 13 | — |
Where this sits once the archive is cut by damage instead
The bars above cut the archive by what an attack asks for. Cut the same archive by what an attack prints and the groups come out differently — the damage ranges on record are gathered on one page, which is where a figure like 50 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Water card do for Articuno 17?
Type decides two things at once — which cards take double damage from this one, and which cards deal double to it. Both are read from the weakness printed on each group, not from a rule of thumb.
17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 13.5% | 2,335 cards |
| Water — this card | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 12.6% | 2,173 cards |
| Fire | 9.1% | 1,574 cards |
| Fighting | 10.9% | 1,884 cards |
| Lightning | 8.8% | 1,520 cards |
| Grass | 13.8% | 2,387 cards |
| Metal | 5.4% | 925 cards |
| Darkness | 7.2% | 1,249 cards |
| Dragon | 3.1% | 530 cards |
| Fairy | 1.4% | 237 cards |
Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Water weakness.
What being a Water card is worth
Groups that most often print a Water weakness: Fire (1,574 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double.
What is Articuno as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Articuno 17 is one print of Articuno. The figures below are about the Pokémon rather than this single card — how many times it has been printed, how tough those prints run, and how many of them can still be played.
Every Articuno print on record, split by whether it can still be entered in Standard play.
Legality is read from the print rather than from the Pokémon, so an older copy of the same Pokémon is a different card for tournament purposes.
Back to summaryIs this the strongest Articuno print, and can the older ones still be played?
45 prints carry this name in the archive, and 43 of them are laid out below. They share a Pokémon but not a card — printed HP, printed damage and tournament legality all move from one print to the next.
Bar height and the number above each bar = highest HP that year; the two digits below = the year.
43 rows are shown of the 45 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX SM210 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX 44/68 | Hidden Fates | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX 66/68 | Hidden Fates | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX 69/68 | Hidden Fates | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno V 170/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno V TG16/TG30 | SWSH10: Astral Radiance Trainer Gallery | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno V 058/198 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno V 169/198 | SWSH06: Chilling Reign | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno V 181/172 | SWSH09: Brilliant Stars | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno-EX 132/135 | Plasma Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno-GX 171/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno-GX SV54/SV94 | Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno-GX 154/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno-EX 25/135 | Plasma Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno-GX 31/168 | SM - Celestial Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 25/83 | Generations | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Rocket's Articuno 051/182 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Articuno SM144 | SM Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno SWSH123 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 27/99 | Next Destinies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 17/108 | XY - Roaring Skies | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 32/113 | Legendary Treasures | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno 063/203 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 016/108 | Deck Exclusives | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Galarian Articuno SWSH282 | SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 144/165 | SV: Scarlet & Violet 151 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Articuno 024/078 | Pokemon GO | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Articuno ex 114/112 | EX FireRed & LeafGreen | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 161/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Articuno 32/181 | SM - Team Up | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 036/195 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Articuno 032/159 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Rocket's Articuno ex 96/109 | EX Team Rocket Returns | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 1/100 | Majestic Dawn | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 16 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Team Aqua's Seviper 009/034 | Trading Card Game Classic | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 48/53 | WoTC Promo | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 004/144 | Skyridge | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 002/110 | Legendary Collection | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 148 | Supreme Victors | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 02/62 | Fossil | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 17/62 | Fossil | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Articuno 22/53 | WoTC Promo | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
6 of the 43 prints listed here are legal in Standard play. An older print of the same Pokémon is a different card for legality, because legality is read from the print rather than from the name — so owning the cheap old copy does not always mean you can enter with it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Articuno 17?
Every card below carries the same Pokédex number as this one, so they are the same Pokémon printed as different cards — different stages, different mechanics and different names all sit in this group.
What was printed next to Articuno 17 in Fossil?
A card is met inside a set, not on its own, and the number on it is the order that set gave it. The cards either side are the ones a collector actually turns past to reach this one.
These are the cards numbered either side of #17 in Fossil. The badge on each card is its printed HP. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
Which rules apply to Articuno 17, and where can it be played?
Two kinds of rule meet on one card — the sentence printed on the card face, and the rulebook clauses that apply because of what the card carries.
| Clause | What the rulebook says | Cards it applies to | Share of the archive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat | Retreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn). | 17,244 cards | 84.3% |
| Energy per turn | You can attach Energy just once each turn! | 17,180 cards | 84.0% |
Counted across 20,444 English cards. A clause applies to this card because the card carries the property the clause names, not because we judged it to.
| Format | Status | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Not listed | This card is not listed for this format |
| Expanded | Not listed | This card is not listed for this format |
| Unlimited | Legal | Can be played in this format |
Read from the format list recorded with the card. Formats rotate on a schedule set by the organiser, and that schedule is not published on this page.
Where this card can be played
This card is legal in Unlimited play. It was released on October 10, 1999.
Articuno 17 in depth — what these figures add up to
Three readings of the same card, side by side: what it costs to get going, where it sits among the cards it will be compared with, and what takes it off the field.
What it asks a deck for
- Its hardest attack, Blizzard, needs 4 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 4 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- Going the other way, it removes 958 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Articuno 17 card record
| Hit points | 70 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost | 2 Energy | Card type | Basic |
| Pokédex number | #144 | Set | Fossil |
| Card number | 17 of 62 | Series | Base |
| Released | October 10, 1999 | Rarity | Rare |
| Illustrator | Mitsuhiro Arita | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Articuno 17 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Articuno 17 — frequently asked questions
What is the strongest attack on Articuno 17?
What is the retreat cost of Articuno 17?
Can an older Articuno print be played in a tournament?
Can Articuno 17 be played in a tournament?
Does this page say how good Articuno 17 is in a deck?
Where these card facts come from
Card facts are read once from openly published card files and do not change between readings — a printed card cannot gain HP. The places below are where the same information can be checked. Last updated: July 28, 2026 — the counts and rankings on this page were taken from the card files read on that day.
Primary official source
First-party official sources — the body that issues the data itself, such as a government agency, a statutory register or a rights holder publishing its own records.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.