Magby 17 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 30 HP.
Fire · Baby · Expedition Base Set · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Magby 17 do in a game?
Magby 17 is a Fire Pokémon card with 30 HP, printed as Baby.
Magby 17Expedition Base Set
Magby 17 performance summary
30 HP · Fire · Baby · retreat 1
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 0.1%.
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 | 0.0% | 30 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 Energy |
1 attack 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 17,062 at 30 HP.
Magby 1730 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 350 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Magby 17
- Hit points 30 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Legality 2 of the 10 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Magby 17 at a glance
- What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 30 HP printed as Baby, printed in Expedition Base Set.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- 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 Magby 17 cost, and what do they hit for?
Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Catch | 1 Fire | 1 | — | — | Flip a coin. If heads, put a basic Energy card from your discard pile into your hand. |
Retreating costs a further 1 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
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.
Back to summaryHow does Magby 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 30 HP, which is 8% 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 30 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 |
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 Magby 17 stands highest on HP — number 131 of 136 cards in Expedition Base Set. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 30 HP
middle half 60–130 HP
- 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 summaryWhat does being a Fire card do for Magby 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 | 14.1% | 2,435 cards |
| Colorless | 12.6% | 2,173 cards |
| Fire — this card | 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 Fire weakness.
What being a Fire card is worth
Groups that most often print a Fire weakness: Grass (2,387 cards) and Metal (925 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double.
What is Magby as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Magby 17 is one print of Magby. 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 Magby 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 summaryWhat has to be in play before Magby 17 can be?
Magby evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- It is not the end of the line either — Magmar evolves from this card, so a deck can keep going past it.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.
Every print of a stage is counted, not just the one shown in the chain above, so the bar is the ceiling that stage has reached rather than one card from it.
Is this the strongest Magby print, and can the older ones still be played?
10 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magby 24/109 | EX Team Rocket Returns | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 58/92 | EX Legend Maker | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 88/123 | Mysterious Treasures | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 017/165 | Expedition | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 186/182 | SV04: Paradox Rift | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Magby 052/165 | Expedition | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 023/111 | Neo Genesis | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 41/102 | Triumphant | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 46/95 | Call of Legends | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Magby 019/182 | SV04: Paradox Rift | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
2 of the 10 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 Magby 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.
50
Magby [24]
40
Magby [58]
30
Magby [186]
30
Magby [52]
30
Magby [23]
30
Magby [41]
40
Magby [88]
30
Magby [46]
30
Magby [19]
9 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number. The badge on each card is its printed HP, the figure under the name is its hardest printed attack, and the name sits under the picture. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
What was printed next to Magby 17 in Expedition Base Set?
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.
70
Fearow [11]
120
Feraligatr [12]
90
Gengar [13]
100
Golem [14]
80
Kingler [15]
120
Machamp [16]
100
Meganium [18]
50
Mew [19]
70
Mewtwo [20]
80
Ninetales [21]
30
Pichu [22]
80
Pidgeot [23]
These are the cards numbered either side of #17 in Expedition Base Set. 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 Magby 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.
The rule printed on this card
“If your Active Pokémon is a Baby Pokémon and your opponent announces an attack, your opponent flips a coin (before doing anything else). If tails, your opponent's turn ends.”
| 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 September 15, 2002.
Magby 17 card record
| Hit points | 30 HP | Type | Fire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost | 1 Energy | Card type | Baby |
| Pokédex number | #240 | Set | Expedition Base Set |
| Card number | 17 of 165 | Series | E-Card |
| Released | September 15, 2002 | Rarity | Rare Holo |
| Illustrator | Mitsuhiro Arita | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited only | ||
| Printed rule | If your Active Pokémon is a Baby Pokémon and your opponent announces an attack, your opponent flips a coin (before doing anything else). If tails, your opponent's turn ends. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Magby 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.
- Magby 17 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page
Magby 17 — frequently asked questions
What is the retreat cost of Magby 17?
Can an older Magby print be played in a tournament?
Can Magby 17 be played in a tournament?
What does the rule on Magby 17 mean?
Does this page say how good Magby 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.
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