Cobalion BW72 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Cobalion BW72
Brand: Pokémon
Author: 5ban Graphics

This card has 120 HP, a top attack printed at 60 damage and a Fire weakness.

Metal · Basic · BW Black Star Promos · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Cobalion BW72 do in a game?

Cobalion BW72 is a Metal Pokémon card with 120 HP, printed as Basic.

Its strongest attack, Iron Head, is printed at 60 damage for 3 Energy — 20 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Metal Basic Promo Unlimited and Expanded #638 Cobalion

Cobalion BW72BW Black Star Promos

120 HP · Metal · Basic · retreat 3 · Fire weakness ×2

Top printed damage6020 per Energy Iron Head60 damage for 3 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points120 HP33.1% of 17,290 in the 80~120 band

Printed damage6022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band

Retreat cost3 Energy12.6% of 17,240 in the 3 band

Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 20 · typical 34.7
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3

Price trackPromoBW Black Star Promos18 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classBasic

RarityPromo

SetBW Black Star Promos

Card numberBW72

AbilityJustified

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$3.43Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by60 damage120 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness Turns of setup3 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it768 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name18 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line17 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #638 Where it can be playedUnlimited and ExpandedRead from the official format list

How Cobalion BW72 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Hit points — top 33.9% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 16.8%.

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.

How Cobalion BW72 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	66.1%	120 HP
Top printed damage	57.4%	60 damage
Energy efficiency	46.1%	20 per Energy
Retreat lightness	16.8%	3 Energy
Attack cost lightness	17.4%	3 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

3EIron Head20 damage per Energy card · has printed text60damage

1 attack printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

No. 4,897of 17,290 cards ranked by printed HP

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Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 4,897 at 120 HP.

Metal cardsNo. 400of 924 by printed HP BW Black Star PromosNo. 33of 93 by printed HP

This cardCobalion BW72BW Black Star Promos120 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 260 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Cobalion BW72

Hit points 120 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Energy It returns 20 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
Weakness A Fire attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Legality 5 of the 18 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Cobalion BW72 at a glance

What it is. A Metal Pokémon card with 120 HP printed as Basic, printed in BW Black Star Promos.
What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 60 damage for 3 Energy.
What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 60 printed damage is enough to remove it.
What it costs to move. 3 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
Where it can be played. Unlimited and Expanded 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.

Source: Card facts are read once from openly published card files and change only when a source corrects them.

What do the attacks on Cobalion BW72 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 60 damage, which is 20 damage for every Energy card attached.

Cobalion BW72 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Iron Head	2 Metal + 1 Colorless	3	60+	20	Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 20 more damage for each heads.

Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Iron Head3 Energy cards

The Energy this 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.

Iron Head 3 Energy60 damage for 3 Energy — 20 per Energy card60

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (60).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.

Iron Head is printed as 60+, so the printed number is a floor — the attack deals at least that much, and the sentence beside it says what adds to it.

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How does Cobalion BW72 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.

Cobalion BW72 — BW Black Star Promos — CobalionBW Black Star Promos BW72

No.4,897by HP in the archive

Cobalion BW72 prints 120 HP, which puts it at number 4,897 of the 17,290 cards in this archive that print an HP figure at all. The tallest figure printed on any card is 380 HP (Mega Emboar ex).

57% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 28%Where it sits on printed HP

This card120 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Cobalion printed120 HP

The ceiling of this archive is Mega Emboar ex at 380 HP — every bar here is measured against it.

This card prints 120 HP, which is 32% 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.

Hit points — where this card sits

~7038.6%6,669 cards

80~120 — this card33.1%5,725 cards

130~18015.5%2,679 cards

190~2306.6%1,148 cards

240~2803.3%567 cards

290~3302.4%412 cards

340+0.5%90 cards

17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 120 HP.

Cards in the 80~120 band typically print 56 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
~70	38.6%	6,669 cards
80~120 — this card	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

Top printed damage — where this card sits

~3042.7%6,938 cards

40~60 — this card22.0%3,566 cards

70~12021.8%3,535 cards

130~1809.0%1,461 cards

190~2503.8%621 cards

260+0.8%125 cards

16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 60.

Cards in the 40~60 band typically have 101 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
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

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits

01.8%304 cards

154.4%9,392 cards

226.4%4,565 cards

3 — this card14.7%2,533 cards

42.4%421 cards

50.3%47 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.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
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

Retreat cost — where this card sits

05.3%914 cards

149.3%8,503 cards

228.6%4,926 cards

3 — this card12.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 cards

17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 3 Energy to retreat.

Cards with a retreat cost of 3 typically have 150 HP and print 99 damage.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0	5.3%	914 cards
1	49.3%	8,503 cards
2	28.6%	4,926 cards
3 — this card	12.6%	2,168 cards
4	4.2%	729 cards

No. 4,897of 17,290

That is where Cobalion BW72 stands highest on HP — number 4,897 of 17,290 cards in Every card in the archive. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.

Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 4,897 of 17,290 by HP · No. 5,743 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 35% on damage
Metal cards — 925 cards No. 400 of 924 by HP · No. 459 of 903 by damage · top by HP: Copperajah VMAX, 340

top 51% on damage
BW Black Star Promos — 101 cards No. 33 of 93 by HP · No. 35 of 91 by damage · top by HP: Reshiram-EX, 180

top 37% on damage

Each bar is how far up this card sits when the archive is cut a different way. The bar is its place on HP; the tick is its place on printed damage. Counted from the card files this site reads, read July 28, 2026.

Hit points 120 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 120
Top printed damage 60 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 60

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.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.

Cards in the same HP band

5,725 of 17,290 (33.1%)

Cards with this much printed damage

3,566 of 16,246 (22.0%)

Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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What Cobalion BW72 does without attacking

Cobalion BW72 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.

Printed effects

Capped at once a turn

None

Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.

Justified — Ability

Each of this Pokémon's attack does 50 more damage to Darkness Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

Quoted from the card face. The label after the dash is how the card itself names the effect.

Why this sits apart from the attacks

An attack costs Energy and ends your turn. What is printed above does neither — it is available while the card is in play, so it is a different kind of cost to a deck. Attack costs are in the section above.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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Is Cobalion BW72 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 60 damage attack that needs 3 Energy and one that needs two are different cards. Dividing one by the other puts every attack on the same scale.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive

1 Energy9,392 cards49.049 damage typical

2 Energy4,565 cards32.565 damage typical

3 Energy2,533 cards34.7104 damage typical

4 Energy421 cards27.8111 damage typical

5 Energy47 cards41.8209 damage typical

Cobalion BW72 — this card20.060 damage for 3 Energy

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 20.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
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
Cobalion BW72 — this card	20.0	60 damage for 3 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsIron Head 60 / 3

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.

Energy cost against printed damage. Each grey dot is what cards asking that much Energy typically print; the coloured dots are the attacks on Cobalion BW72.
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
Iron Head	—	20	—

This card, per Energy card

20 damage

Typical for a 3 Energy attack

34.7 damage

Difference

-14.7 damage

Both figures are damage divided by Energy cost, counted the same way.

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 60 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Metal card do for Cobalion BW72?

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.

Deals double to this card 1,574 Fire cards carry that type A Fire attack printed at 60 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Cobalion BW72 · Basic 120 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 60 damage.

Takes double from this card 237 cards in groups that print a Metal weakness Against Fairy, printed damage from this card counts double.

How the archive splits by energy type

Psychicmost often weak to Psychic13.5%2,335 cards

Watermost often weak to Lightning14.1%2,435 cards

Colorlessmost often weak to Fighting12.6%2,173 cards

Firemost often weak to Water9.1%1,574 cards

Fightingmost often weak to Grass10.9%1,884 cards

Lightningmost often weak to Fighting8.8%1,520 cards

Grassmost often weak to Fire13.8%2,387 cards

Metal — this cardmost often weak to Fire5.4%925 cards

Darknessmost often weak to Fighting7.2%1,249 cards

Dragonmost often weak to Fairy3.1%530 cards

Fairymost often weak to Metal1.4%237 cards

17,249 cards carry an energy type. The note under each name is the weakness printed most often on that group.

How the archive splits by energy type
Group	Share	Value
Psychic	13.5%	2,335 cards
Water	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 — this card	5.4%	925 cards
Darkness	7.2%	1,249 cards
Dragon	3.1%	530 cards
Fairy	1.4%	237 cards

Metalweak to Fire

Fairyweak to Metal

Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Metal weakness.

What being a Metal card is worth

Groups that most often print a Metal weakness: Fairy (237 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Metal cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Cobalion BW72 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Fire attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 60 printed damage rather than 120.

Cards that remove it in one attack

768

Cards it removes in one attack

647

Fire damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 120 HP against a Fire weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackNinetalesMega Evolution 2060 damage

×2Fire weakness · 60 printed damage is enough
60 damage becomes 120 against this card

This cardCobalion BW72BW Black Star Promos BW72120 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 759 cards in the archive that can remove Cobalion BW72 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 60 printed damage against a bar of 60. Anything printed higher removes it just as surely, so this is where the line actually sits, and this print is legal in Standard play today.

Cobalionweak to Fire ×2

Cobalionresists Psychic -20

Read from the two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.

What the Psychic resistance changes

Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack printed high enough to knock this card out on paper may not do it. Resistance is a flat subtraction, not a multiplier — it does not scale with the attack.

Fire cards that remove Cobalion in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Charizard ex (183)	151	330	330	660
Charizard ex (199)	151	330	330	660
Charizard ex (161)	Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos	330	330	660
Mega Emboar ex (31)	Ascended Heroes	380	320	640
Mega Emboar ex (273)	Ascended Heroes	380	320	640
Charizard VSTAR (19)	Crown Zenith	280	320	640

120 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 60 damage or more is enough. 768 cards in the archive clear that bar.

120 HP Abomasnow [26]

120 HP Team Aqua's Walrein [6]

Cards this one removes in a single attack

647 cards in the archive are weak to Metal and sit inside the damage this card can deal. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

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What is Cobalion as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Cobalion BW72 is one print of Cobalion. 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.

Cobalion has been printed 18 times, and the printed numbers move from one print to the next. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.

The three toughest Cobalion cards ever printedPokédex #638Prints on record 18Toughest print 210 HPThis card 120 HP

18prints

Legal in Standard5Older prints, not in Standard13

Every Cobalion 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.

The toughest Cobalion printed is 210 HP, and this card is 57.1% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon

Cobalion ex 103/086the toughest Cobalion ever printedME04: Chaos Rising210 HP
Cobalion BW72against that record57.1% of the record120 HP

Read from the printed card face of every Cobalion print on record. Printed HP does not change after a card is issued.

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Is this the strongest Cobalion print, and can the older ones still be played?

18 prints carry this name in the archive. 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.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (210 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

Cobalion prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Cobalion ex 103/086	ME04: Chaos Rising	Mark J	Legal in Standard
Cobalion ex 064/086	ME04: Chaos Rising	Mark J	Legal in Standard
Cobalion-EX 133/135	Plasma Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion-EX 93/135	Plasma Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion-GX 189/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion-GX 168/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion-GX 106/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 100/101	Noble Victories	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 144/086	SV: Black Bolt	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Cobalion 066/086	SV: Black Bolt	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Cobalion BW72	Black and White Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 084/101	Blister Exclusives	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 74/114	World Championship Decks	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 91/113	Legendary Treasures	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 129/214	SM - Lost Thunder	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 114/198	SWSH06: Chilling Reign	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Cobalion 126/195	SWSH12: Silver Tempest	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Cobalion 77/98	Emerging Powers	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

5 of the 18 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.

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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.

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What was printed next to Cobalion BW72 in BW Black Star Promos?

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.

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #BW72 in BW Black Star Promos. 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.

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Which rules apply to Cobalion BW72, 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.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Cobalion BW72
Clause	What the rulebook says	Cards it applies to	Share of the archive
Weakness	Some Pokemon have Weakness or Resistance to Pokemon of certain types, marked in the lower-left corner of the card.	16,744 cards	81.9%
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.

Cobalion BW72 — tournament formats
Format	Status	What that means
Standard	Not listed	This card is not listed for this format
Expanded	Legal	Can be played in 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 and Expanded play. It was released on March 1, 2011.

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Cobalion BW72 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, Iron Head, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 20 damage for every Energy card attached.
Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 4,897 of 17,290

Metal cardsNo. 400 of 924

BW Black Star PromosNo. 33 of 93

What actually removes it

A Fire attack printed at 60 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 120 HP.
768 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 647 cards in one attack.
Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.

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Cobalion BW72 card record

Cobalion BW72 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	120 HP	Type	Metal
Weakness	Fire ×2	Retreat cost	3 Energy
Card type	Basic	Pokédex number	#638
Set	BW Black Star Promos	Card number	BW72 of 101
Series	Black & White	Released	March 1, 2011
Rarity	Promo	Illustrator	5ban Graphics
Tournament legality	Unlimited and Expanded only

Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.

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What does Cobalion BW72 cost?

This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.

Market price today

$3.43

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One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.

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Cobalion BW72 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Cobalion BW72?

Cobalion BW72 has 120 HP and a Fire weakness at ×2, so a Fire attack printed at 60 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 120.

What is the strongest attack on Cobalion BW72?

Iron Head, printed at 60 damage for 3 Energy — 20 damage per Energy card. Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 20 more damage for each heads.

What is the retreat cost of Cobalion BW72?

3 Energy, discarded from this card to move it out of the active spot. Retreating is allowed once per turn.

What does the + after the damage on Iron Head mean?

It marks the damage as conditional: the printed figure is the least it can deal, and the sentence on the card says what is added to it. The full sentence is printed on the card and quoted in the attack table on this page — "Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 20 more damage for each heads."

Can an older Cobalion print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 18 prints listed on this page, 5 are legal in Standard play. The rest can still be played in formats that accept them, and the table on this page names the regulation mark each print carries.

Can Cobalion BW72 be played in a tournament?

It is legal in Unlimited and Expanded play. Standard events run on a rotating list of sets, so check the current rotation before entering one.

Does this page say how good Cobalion BW72 is in a deck?

No. Every figure here is read from the printed card. Deck lists, tournament results and win rates are not published on this site, because the card files it reads do not contain them.

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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.

The Pokémon Company International — official rules, tournament format and rotation announcements www.pokemon.com

Industry source

Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.

Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com

TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com

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Cobalion BW72 — what does this card actually do?

What does Cobalion BW72 do in a game?

Cobalion BW72 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Cobalion BW72 at a glance

What do the attacks on Cobalion BW72 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Cobalion BW72 compare with every other card?

What Cobalion BW72 does without attacking

Is Cobalion BW72 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

What does being a Metal card do for Cobalion BW72?

What knocks out Cobalion BW72 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What is Cobalion as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Is this the strongest Cobalion print, and can the older ones still be played?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Cobalion BW72?

What was printed next to Cobalion BW72 in BW Black Star Promos?

Which rules apply to Cobalion BW72, and where can it be played?

Cobalion BW72 in depth — what these figures add up to

What it asks a deck for

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Cobalion BW72 card record

What does Cobalion BW72 cost?

Cobalion BW72 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Cobalion BW72?

What is the strongest attack on Cobalion BW72?

What is the retreat cost of Cobalion BW72?

What does the + after the damage on Iron Head mean?

Can an older Cobalion print be played in a tournament?

Can Cobalion BW72 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Cobalion BW72 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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