Darkrai DP24 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 80 HP, a top attack printed at 80 damage and a Fighting weakness.
Darkness · Basic · DP Black Star Promos · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Darkrai DP24 do in a game?
Darkrai DP24 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 80 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Roar of Time, is printed at 80 damage for 3 Energy — 27 damage per Energy card.
Darkrai DP24DP Black Star Promos
Darkrai DP24 performance summary
80 HP · Darkness · Basic · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness +20
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 38.6%.
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 | 38.6% | 80 HP |
| Top printed damage | 68.9% | 80 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 64.0% | 27 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 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 9,046 at 80 HP.
Darkrai DP2480 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 300 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Darkrai DP24
- Hit points 80 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 27 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
- Legality 18 of the 45 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Darkrai DP24 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 80 HP printed as Basic, printed in DP Black Star Promos.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 80 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fighting weakness at +20.
- What it costs to move. 1 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 Darkrai DP24 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 80 damage, which is 27 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spacial Rend | 1 Water | 1 | 10 | 10 | Search your deck for a Stadium card, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. If there is any Stadium card in play, discard it. |
| Roar of Time | 3 Metal | 3 | 80 | 27 | Search your discard pile for 3 Pokémon, show them to your opponent, and put them on top of your deck. Shuffle your deck afterward. (If you don't have 3 Pokémon in your discard pile, this attack does nothing.) |
Retreating costs a further 1 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 Darkrai DP24 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 80 HP, which is 21% 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 80 HP.
Cards in the 80~120 band typically print 56 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 80.
Cards in the 70~120 band typically have 141 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 22.0% | 3,566 cards |
| 70~120 — this card | 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 1 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically have 93 HP and print 49 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 — this card | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 | 26.4% | 4,565 cards |
| 3 | 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 1 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 1 typically have 81 HP and print 40 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 — this card | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Darkrai DP24 stands highest on HP — number 9,046 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.
- Hit points 80 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 80 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 Darkrai DP24 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 80 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.
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 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 27.
| 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 |
| Darkrai DP24 — this card | 27.0 | 80 damage for 3 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 |
| Spacial Rend | — | 10 | — |
| Roar of Time | — | 27 | — |
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 80 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
What does being a Darkness card do for Darkrai DP24?
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 | 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 — this card | 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 Darkness weakness.
What being a Darkness card is worth
No group in the archive most often prints a Darkness weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Darkness cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.
What knocks out Darkrai DP24 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
The weakness printed on the card decides which attacks are enough to remove it in one turn.
60 damage becomes 80 against this card
Darkrai DP2480 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 901 cards in the archive that can remove Darkrai DP24 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.
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.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Lucario ex (77) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 270 |
| Mega Lucario ex (160) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 270 |
| Mega Lucario ex (179) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 270 |
| Mega Lucario ex (188) | Mega Evolution | 340 | 270 | 270 |
| Mega Lucario ex (113) | Ascended Heroes | 340 | 270 | 270 |
| Toxtricity ex (100) | Paradox Rift | 260 | 270 | 270 |
753 cards in the archive are weak to Darkness 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.
What is Darkrai as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Darkrai DP24 is one print of Darkrai. 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 Darkrai 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 Darkrai print, and can the older ones still be played?
64 prints carry this name in the archive, and 45 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.
45 rows are shown of the 64 prints counted under this name.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Darkrai ex 116/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Darkrai ex 120/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Darkrai ex 101/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Mega Darkrai ex 048/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Umbreon & Darkrai-GX 125/236 | SM - Unified Minds | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai VSTAR GG50/GG70 | SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai VSTAR 099/189 | Jumbo Cards | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai ex 110 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai V 098/189 | SWSH10: Astral Radiance | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-EX 107/108 | Dark Explorers | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-GX SV70/SV94 | Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-EX 118/122 | XY - BREAKpoint | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-GX 158/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-GX 139/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-EX BW46 | Black and White Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-EX 88/113 | Legendary Treasures | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-EX 63/108 | Dark Explorers | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-GX 88/147 | SM - Burning Shadows | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai-EX 74/122 | XY - BREAKpoint | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Kingambit 113 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai ◇ 77/156 | SM - Ultra Prism | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND 100/102 | Triumphant | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 136/197 | Trick or Trade BOOster Bundle 2024 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Yveltal 118/182 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai XY22 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 087/147 | League & Championship Cards | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 105/189 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark D | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 120/196 | SWSH11: Lost Origin | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Salazzle 140/197 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai XY114 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai XY194 | XY Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 167/264 | Battle Academy 2022 | Mark E | Not legal in Standard |
| Seviper 137/193 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai LV.X 104/106 | Great Encounters | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai LV.X DP19 | Diamond and Pearl Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Bisharp 112 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Darkrai G 3/111 | Rising Rivals | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai DP52 | Diamond and Pearl Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 3/100 | Majestic Dawn | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 4/106 | Great Encounters | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai DP24 | DP Black Star Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Darkrai 3/106 | Great Encounters | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Pawniard 111 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Salandit 139/197 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Rookidee 164/193 | Battle Academy 2024 | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
18 of the 45 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 Darkrai DP24?
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 Darkrai DP24 in DP 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.
These are the cards numbered either side of #DP24 in DP 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.
Which rules apply to Darkrai DP24, 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.
The rule printed on this card
“Enigma Berry: If Darkrai is damaged by an attack from your opponent's Fighting Pokémon, remove 4 damage counters at the end of that turn.”
| 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.
| 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 May 1, 2007.
Darkrai DP24 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, Roar of Time, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 27 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fighting attack printed at 60 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 80 HP.
- 909 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 753 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.
Darkrai DP24 card record
| Hit points | 80 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fighting +20 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #491 |
| Set | DP Black Star Promos | Card number | DP24 of 56 |
| Series | Diamond & Pearl | Released | May 1, 2007 |
| Rarity | Promo | Illustrator | Kouki Saitou |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
| Printed rule | Enigma Berry: If Darkrai is damaged by an attack from your opponent's Fighting Pokémon, remove 4 damage counters at the end of that turn. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Darkrai DP24 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Darkrai DP24 — frequently asked questions
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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.
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