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Slugma 73 — what does this card actually do?

This card has 40 HP, a top attack printed at 10 damage and a Water weakness.

Fire · Basic · Unseen Forces · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Slugma 73 do in a game?

Slugma 73 is a Fire Pokémon card with 40 HP, printed as Basic.

Its strongest attack, Headbutt, is printed at 10 damage for 1 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 20 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Slugma 73Unseen Forces

Slugma 73 performance summary

40 HP · Fire · Basic · retreat 1 · Water weakness ×2

Top printed damage1010 per Energy Headbutt10 damage for 1 Energy
as of July 28, 2026
Hit points40 HP38.6% of 17,290 in the ~70 band
Printed damage1042.7% of 16,246 in the ~30 band
Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band
Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 10 · typical 49.0
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Price trackCommonUnseen Forces25 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classBasic
RarityCommon
SetUnseen Forces
Card number73
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Slugma 73 is built, on five measures
Hit points40 HPTop printed damage10 damageEnergy efficiency10 per EnergyRetreat lightness1 EnergyAttack cost lightness1 Energy

Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Top printed damage — 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.

How Slugma 73 is built, on five measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points1.3%40 HP
Top printed damage0.0%10 damage
Energy efficiency3.1%10 per Energy
Retreat lightness94.4%1 Energy
Attack cost lightness98.2%1 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 1EYawnhas printed text
  • 1EHeadbutt10 damage per Energy card10damage

2 attacks printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 16,429 at 40 HP.

This cardSlugma 73 — Unseen ForcesSlugma 73Unseen Forces40 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP340 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex — Ascended HeroesMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Slugma 73

  • Hit points 40 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
  • Energy It returns 10 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
  • Weakness A Water attack printed at 20 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
  • Legality 5 of the 23 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Slugma 73 at a glance

  • What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 40 HP printed as Basic, printed in Unseen Forces.
  • What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 10 damage for 1 Energy.
  • What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 20 printed damage is enough to remove it.
  • 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.
Source: Card facts are read once from openly published card files and change only when a source corrects them.

What do the attacks on Slugma 73 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 1 Energy and returns 10 damage, which is 10 damage for every Energy card attached.

Slugma 73 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Yawn1 Colorless1The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
Headbutt1 Colorless11010No extra effect.

Retreating costs a further 1 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Yawn1 Energy card
Headbutt1 Energy card

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.

  • Headbutt 1 Energy10 damage for 1 Energy — 10 per Energy card10

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (10).

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How does Slugma 73 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.

Slugma 73 — Unseen Forces
SlugmaUnseen Forces 73

Slugma 73 prints 40 HP, which puts it at number 16,429 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).

0% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

  • This card40 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
  • Strongest Slugma printed80 HP
Mega Emboar ex — Ascended Heroes 273 · the highest printed HP in the archive at 380

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

This card prints 40 HP, which is 11% 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
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%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 40 HP.

Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%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
Top printed damage — where this card sits
~30 — this card42.7%6,938 cards
40~6022.0%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 10.

Cards in the ~30 band typically have 70 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~30 — this card42.7%6,938 cards
40~6022.0%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
Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
01.8%304 cards
1 — this card54.4%9,392 cards
226.4%4,565 cards
314.7%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 1 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically have 93 HP and print 49 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
01.8%304 cards
1 — this card54.4%9,392 cards
226.4%4,565 cards
314.7%2,533 cards
42.4%421 cards
50.3%47 cards
Retreat cost — where this card sits
05.3%914 cards
1 — this card49.3%8,503 cards
228.6%4,926 cards
312.6%2,168 cards
44.2%729 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.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
05.3%914 cards
1 — this card49.3%8,503 cards
228.6%4,926 cards
312.6%2,168 cards
44.2%729 cards

That is where Slugma 73 stands highest on HP — number 16,429 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.

  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 16,429 of 17,290 by HP · No. 14,164 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 87% on damage
  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Fire cards — 1,574 cards No. 1,538 of 1,574 by HP · No. 1,417 of 1,526 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 93% on damage
  • Tyranitar ex — 160 HP, the highest in this group
    Unseen Forces — 145 cards No. 121 of 124 by HP · No. 73 of 93 by damage · top by HP: Tyranitar ex, 160
    top 77% 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 40 HPmiddle half 60–130 HP
  • Top printed damage 10 damagemiddle 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.

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
6,669 of 17,290 (38.6%)
Cards with this much printed damage
6,938 of 16,246 (42.7%)
Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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Is Slugma 73 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 10 damage attack that needs 1 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
Slugma 73 — this card10.010 damage for 1 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 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 10.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
GroupShareValue
1 Energy49.049 damage typical
2 Energy32.565 damage typical
3 Energy34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy41.8209 damage typical
Slugma 73 — this card10.010 damage for 1 Energy
2501250 damage
012345 Energy
Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsHeadbutt 10 / 1

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 Slugma 73.
GroupTypical printed damageDamage per Energy cardCards in this group
Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy45304
Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy49499,392
Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy65334,565
Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy104352,533
Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy11128421
Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy2094247
Headbutt10
This card, per Energy card
10 damage
Typical for a 1 Energy attack
49.0 damage
Difference
-39.0 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 10 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Fire card do for Slugma 73?

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 2,435 Water cards carry that type A Water attack printed at 20 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Slugma 73 · Basic 40 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 10 damage.
Takes double from this card 3,312 cards in groups that print a Fire weakness Against Grass and Metal, 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
Fire — this cardmost 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
Metalmost 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
GroupShareValue
Psychic13.5%2,335 cards
Water14.1%2,435 cards
Colorless12.6%2,173 cards
Fire — this card9.1%1,574 cards
Fighting10.9%1,884 cards
Lightning8.8%1,520 cards
Grass13.8%2,387 cards
Metal5.4%925 cards
Darkness7.2%1,249 cards
Dragon3.1%530 cards
Fairy1.4%237 cards
Fireweak to Water
Grassweak to Fire
Metalweak to Fire

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. Going the other way, Fire cards are themselves most exposed to Water.

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What knocks out Slugma 73 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Water attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 20 printed damage rather than 40.

Cards that remove it in one attack
2,001
Water damage needed to knock it out
20
Counted across the whole card archive. 40 HP against a Water weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackSeelSeelPhantasmal Flames 2120 damage
×2Water weakness · 20 printed damage is enough
20 damage becomes 40 against this card
This cardSlugma 73Slugma 73Unseen Forces 7340 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 1,974 cards in the archive that can remove Slugma 73 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 20 printed damage against a bar of 20. 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.

Slugmaweak to Water ×2

Read from the weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.

Water cards that remove Slugma in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Vaporeon ex (23)Prismatic Evolutions280280560
Vaporeon ex (149)Prismatic Evolutions280280560
Wailord ex (16)Pitch Black380270540
Wailord ex (97)Pitch Black380270540
Palafin ex (61)Twilight Masquerade340250500
Palafin ex (193)Twilight Masquerade340250500

40 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 20 damage or more is enough. 2,001 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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

Slugma 73 is one print of Slugma. 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.

Slugma has been printed 25 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 Slugma cards ever printedPokédex #218Prints on record 25Toughest print 80 HPThis card 40 HP
25prints
Legal in Standard5Older prints, not in Standard20

Every Slugma 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 Slugma printed is 80 HP, and this card is 50% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon
  • Slugma 6/39the toughest Slugma ever printedKalos Starter Set80 HP
  • Slugma 73against that record50% of the record40 HP

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

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What has to be in play before Slugma 73 can be?

Slugma evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Slugma line, oldest stage firstPokédex #218
  • 1SlugmaSlugmaHardest attack printed at this stage: 60 damage80 HP
  • 2MagcargoMagcargoHardest attack printed at this stage: 220 damage. Evolving here adds 50 HP over the stage before it130 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (130 HP). The note beside each bar is the hardest attack printed at that stage.

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.

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

25 prints carry this name in the archive, and 23 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.

Rows run from the toughest print down. Bars are printed HP, measured against the toughest print of this name shown here (80 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

23 rows are shown of the 25 prints counted under this name.

Slugma prints — can each one still be played?
PrintSetRegulation markStandard
Slugma 6/39Kalos Starter SetNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 26/236SM - Cosmic EclipseNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 43/214SM - Lost ThunderNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 028/167SV06: Twilight MasqueradeMark HLegal in Standard
Slugma 034/264SWSH08: Fusion StrikeMark ENot legal in Standard
Ethan's Slugma 023/217ME: Ascended HeroesMark ILegal in Standard
Ethan's Slugma 035/182SV10: Destined RivalsMark ILegal in Standard
Slugma 028/162SV05: Temporal ForcesMark HLegal in Standard
Slugma 22/160XY - Primal ClashNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 23/168SM - Celestial StormNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 20/146XY Base SetNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 021/196SWSH11: Lost OriginMark FLegal in Standard
Slugma 027/185SWSH04: Vivid VoltageMark DNot legal in Standard
Slugma 67/90UndauntedNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 83/106Great EncountersNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 77/109EX Team Rocket ReturnsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 75/107EX DeoxysNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 099/144SkyridgeNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 098/144SkyridgeNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 72/97EX DragonNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 53/64Neo RevelationNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 082/105Neo DestinyNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Slugma 73/115EX Unseen ForcesNo mark printedNot legal in Standard

5 of the 23 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 Slugma 73 in Unseen Forces?

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 #73 in Unseen Forces. 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 Slugma 73, 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 Slugma 73
ClauseWhat the rulebook saysCards it applies toShare of the archive
WeaknessSome Pokemon have Weakness or Resistance to Pokemon of certain types, marked in the lower-left corner of the card.16,744 cards81.9%
RetreatRetreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn).17,244 cards84.3%
Energy per turnYou can attach Energy just once each turn!17,180 cards84.0%

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.

Slugma 73 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardNot listedThis card is not listed for this format
ExpandedNot listedThis card is not listed for this format
UnlimitedLegalCan 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 August 1, 2005.

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Slugma 73 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, Headbutt, needs 1 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 1 turn from an empty card.
  • That works out at 10 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

Every card in the archiveNo. 16,429 of 17,290
Fire cardsNo. 1,538 of 1,574
Unseen ForcesNo. 121 of 124

What actually removes it

  • A Water attack printed at 20 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 40 HP.
  • 2,001 cards in the archive clear that bar.
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Slugma 73 card record

Slugma 73 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points40 HPTypeFire
WeaknessWater ×2Retreat cost1 Energy
Card typeBasicPokédex number#218
SetUnseen ForcesCard number73 of 115
SeriesEXReleasedAugust 1, 2005
RarityCommonIllustratorTomokazu Komiya
Tournament legalityUnlimited only

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

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What does Slugma 73 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
$0.79
Read on
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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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Slugma 73 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Slugma 73?

Slugma 73 has 40 HP and a Water weakness at ×2, so a Water attack printed at 20 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 40.

What is the strongest attack on Slugma 73?

Headbutt, printed at 10 damage for 1 Energy — 10 damage per Energy card.

What is the retreat cost of Slugma 73?

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

Can an older Slugma print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 23 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 Slugma 73 be played in a tournament?

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

Does this page say how good Slugma 73 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.

1
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.

1
Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com
2
TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com
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