Shiftry 12 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Shiftry 12
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Mitsuhiro Arita

This card has 110 HP, a top attack printed at 40 damage and a Fighting weakness.

Darkness · Stage 2 · Legend Maker · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Shiftry 12 do in a game?

Shiftry 12 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 110 HP, printed as Stage 2.

Its strongest attack, Cross-Cut, is printed at 40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 55 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Darkness Stage 2 Rare Holo Unlimited #275 Shiftry

Shiftry 12Legend Maker

110 HP · Darkness · Stage 2 · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2

Top printed damage4013 per Energy Cross-Cut40 damage for 3 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points110 HP33.1% of 17,290 in the 80~120 band

Printed damage4022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band

Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band

Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 13 · typical 32.5
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2

Price trackRare HoloLegend Maker23 printsranked among Stage 2 cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classStage 2

RarityRare Holo

SetLegend Maker

Card number12

AbilityEvolutionary Fan

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$24.99Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by55 damage110 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness Turns of setup3 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it909 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name23 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line22 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #275 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Shiftry 12 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% of the archive. Weakest on Energy efficiency — bottom 28.4%.

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.

How Shiftry 12 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	61.6%	110 HP
Top printed damage	42.7%	40 damage
Energy efficiency	28.4%	13 per Energy
Retreat lightness	94.4%	1 Energy
Attack cost lightness	43.8%	2 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

2EReactive Beating15 damage per Energy card · has printed text30damage
3ECross-Cut13 damage per Energy card · has printed text40damage

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

Where it stands

No. 5,859of 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 5,859 at 110 HP.

Darkness cardsNo. 523of 1,248 by printed HP Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,439of 1,749 by printed HP

This cardShiftry 12Legend Maker110 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 270 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Shiftry 12

Hit points 110 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Energy It returns 13 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 55 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Legality 4 of the 23 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Shiftry 12 at a glance

What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 110 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Legend Maker.
What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 40 damage for 3 Energy.
What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 55 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 Shiftry 12 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 40 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.

Shiftry 12 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Reactive Beating	2 Colorless	2	30	15	If Shiftry has any React Energy cards attached to it, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
Cross-Cut	1 Darkness + 2 Colorless	3	40+	13	If the Defending Pokémon is an Evolved Pokémon, this attack does 40 damage plus 30 more damage.

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

Reactive Beating2 Energy cards

Cross-Cut3 Energy cards

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.

Reactive Beating 2 Energy30 damage for 2 Energy — 15 per Energy card30
Cross-Cut 3 Energy40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 per Energy card40

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (40).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

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

Cross-Cut is printed as 40+, 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 Shiftry 12 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.

Shiftry 12 — Legend Maker — ShiftryLegend Maker 12

No.5,859by HP in the archive

Shiftry 12 prints 110 HP, which puts it at number 5,859 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).

43% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 34%Where it sits on printed HP

This card110 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Stage 2 card380 HP
Strongest Shiftry printed160 HP

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

This card prints 110 HP, which is 29% 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 110 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 40.

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

2 — this card26.4%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 2 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0	1.8%	304 cards
1	54.4%	9,392 cards
2 — this card	26.4%	4,565 cards
3	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

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
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

No. 9of 85

That is where Shiftry 12 stands highest on HP — number 9 of 85 cards in Legend Maker. 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. 5,859 of 17,290 by HP · No. 8,196 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 50% on damage
Darkness cards — 1,249 cards No. 523 of 1,248 by HP · No. 669 of 1,170 by damage · top by HP: Mega Gengar ex, 350

top 57% on damage
Stage 2 cards — 1,749 cards No. 1,439 of 1,749 by HP · No. 1,451 of 1,721 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 84% on damage
Legend Maker — 93 cards No. 9 of 85 by HP · No. 17 of 71 by damage · top by HP: Armaldo ex, 160

top 23% 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 110 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 110
Top printed damage 40 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 40

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 printed as Stage 2

1,749 on record

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.

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What Shiftry 12 does without attacking

Shiftry 12 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

1 of 1

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

Evolutionary Fan — Poké-Power · once a turn

Once during your turn, when you play Shiftry from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may choose 1 of your Evolved Pokémon in play (excluding any Shiftry). Return that Pokémon and all cards attached to it to your hand.

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.

Evolutionary Fan can only be used once a turn

The words once during your turn are printed in it, which caps it at one use per turn on that one card. Two copies of the card in play are two separate Pokémon, so each carries its own use.

Every card mechanic in the archive

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Is Shiftry 12 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 40 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

Shiftry 12 — this card13.040 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 2 typically return 32.5 damage per Energy card. This card returns 13.

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
Shiftry 12 — this card	13.0	40 damage for 3 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsReactive Beating 30 / 2Cross-Cut 40 / 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 Shiftry 12.
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
Reactive Beating	—	15	—
Cross-Cut	—	13	—

This card, per Energy card

13 damage

Typical for a 2 Energy attack

32.5 damage

Difference

-19.5 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 40 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Darkness card do for Shiftry 12?

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 1,884 Fighting cards carry that type A Fighting attack printed at 55 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Shiftry 12 · Stage 2 110 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 40 damage.

Takes double from this card — no group most often prints a Darkness weakness This type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule.

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

Metalmost often weak to Fire5.4%925 cards

Darkness — this cardmost 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	5.4%	925 cards
Darkness — this card	7.2%	1,249 cards
Dragon	3.1%	530 cards
Fairy	1.4%	237 cards

Darknessweak to Fighting

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.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Shiftry 12 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Fighting attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 55 printed damage rather than 110.

Cards that remove it in one attack

909

Cards it removes in one attack

353

Fighting damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 110 HP against a Fighting weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackMarshadowMega Evolution 14660 damage

×2Fighting weakness · 55 printed damage is enough
60 damage becomes 120 against this card

This cardShiftry 12Legend Maker 12110 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 901 cards in the archive that can remove Shiftry 12 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 60 printed damage against a bar of 55. 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.

Shiftryweak to Fighting ×2

Shiftryresists Psychic -30

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.

Fighting cards that remove Shiftry in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Mega Lucario ex (77)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (160)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (179)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (188)	Mega Evolution	340	270	540
Mega Lucario ex (113)	Ascended Heroes	340	270	540
Toxtricity ex (100)	Paradox Rift	260	270	540

110 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 55 damage or more is enough. 909 cards in the archive clear that bar.

Cards this one removes in a single attack

353 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.

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

Shiftry 12 is one print of Shiftry. 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.

Shiftry has been printed 23 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 Shiftry cards ever printedPokédex #275Prints on record 23Toughest print 240 HPThis card 110 HP

23prints

Legal in Standard4Older prints, not in Standard19

Every Shiftry 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 Shiftry printed is 240 HP, and this card is 45.8% of it

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

Shiftry-GX 169/168the toughest Shiftry ever printedSM - Celestial Storm240 HP
Shiftry 12against that record45.8% of the record110 HP

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

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What has to be in play before Shiftry 12 can be?

Shiftry evolves from Nuzleaf, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Shiftry line, oldest stage first

Seedot16 prints on record · EX Legend Maker

+40 HP · +30 damage

Nuzleaf17 prints on record · EX Power Keepers

+60 HP · +150 damage

Shiftry14 prints on record · EX Legend Maker

Seedot → Nuzleaf → Shiftry

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Nuzleaf.
The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.

1SeedotHardest attack printed at this stage: 30 damage60 HP
2NuzleafHardest attack printed at this stage: 60 damage. Evolving here adds 40 HP over the stage before it100 HP
3ShiftryHardest attack printed at this stage: 210 damage. Evolving here adds 60 HP over the stage before it160 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (160 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 Shiftry print, and can the older ones still be played?

23 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 (240 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

Shiftry prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Shiftry-GX 169/168	SM - Celestial Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry-GX 152/168	SM - Celestial Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry-GX 14/168	SM - Celestial Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 013/196	SWSH11: Lost Origin	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Shiftry 015/132	ME01: Mega Evolution	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Shiftry 163/162	SV05: Temporal Forces	Mark H	Legal in Standard
Shiftry 012/185	SWSH04: Vivid Voltage	Mark D	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 097/203	SWSH07: Evolving Skies	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 005/162	SV05: Temporal Forces	Mark H	Legal in Standard
Shiftry ex 97/108	EX Power Keepers	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry ex 97/100	EX Crystal Guardians	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 11/114	XY - Steam Siege	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry XY23	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 7/106	XY - Flashfire	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 73/122	XY - BREAKpoint	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 13/111	Rising Rivals	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 72/99	Next Destinies	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 12/100	EX Sandstorm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 14/130	Diamond and Pearl	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 22/100	EX Sandstorm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 12/92	EX Legend Maker	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 14/101	EX Hidden Legends	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shiftry 25/107	EX Deoxys	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

4 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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What can you use instead of Shiftry 12?

Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.

Cards that fill the same slot as Shiftry 12
Card	Set	HP	Top damage	Retreat
Tyranitar	Neo Discovery	100	50	3
Tyranitar ex	POP Series 1	150	80	4
Tyranitar	Expedition Base Set	120	50	4
Krookodile	Dragons Exalted	150	60	3
Tyranitar	Aquapolis	120	60	3
Hydreigon	Next Destinies	150	60	3

This card itself is 110 HP, 40 top damage and 1 retreat, and every card here is Darkness like 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 Shiftry 12 in Legend Maker?

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 #12 in Legend Maker. 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 Shiftry 12, 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 Shiftry 12
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.

Shiftry 12 — tournament formats
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 February 1, 2006.

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Shiftry 12 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, Cross-Cut, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
Moving it out of the active spot costs 1 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
It cannot start the game in play — Nuzleaf has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 5,859 of 17,290

Darkness cardsNo. 523 of 1,248

Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,439 of 1,749

Legend MakerNo. 9 of 85

What actually removes it

A Fighting attack printed at 55 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 110 HP.
909 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 353 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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Shiftry 12 card record

Shiftry 12 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	110 HP	Type	Darkness
Weakness	Fighting ×2	Retreat cost	1 Energy
Evolves from	Nuzleaf	Card type	Stage 2
Pokédex number	#275	Set	Legend Maker
Card number	12 of 92	Series	EX
Released	February 1, 2006	Rarity	Rare Holo
Illustrator	Mitsuhiro Arita
Tournament legality	Unlimited only

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

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What does Shiftry 12 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

$24.99

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Shiftry 12 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Shiftry 12?

Shiftry 12 has 110 HP and a Fighting weakness at ×2, so a Fighting attack printed at 55 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 110.

What is the strongest attack on Shiftry 12?

Cross-Cut, printed at 40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card. If the Defending Pokémon is an Evolved Pokémon, this attack does 40 damage plus 30 more damage.

What is the retreat cost of Shiftry 12?

1 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 Cross-Cut 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 — "If the Defending Pokémon is an Evolved Pokémon, this attack does 40 damage plus 30 more damage."

How often can you use Evolutionary Fan?

Once during your turn. The limit is printed in the ability itself, and it is counted per Pokémon — a second copy of Shiftry in play carries its own use.

Can an older Shiftry print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 23 prints listed on this page, 4 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.

What does Shiftry evolve from?

Nuzleaf. It cannot be played straight from your hand onto an empty spot — the earlier stage has to be in play first.

Can Shiftry 12 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 Shiftry 12 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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Shiftry 12 — what does this card actually do?

What does Shiftry 12 do in a game?

Shiftry 12 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Shiftry 12 at a glance

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How does Shiftry 12 compare with every other card?

What Shiftry 12 does without attacking

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Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Shiftry 12 card record

What does Shiftry 12 cost?

Shiftry 12 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Shiftry 12?

What is the strongest attack on Shiftry 12?

What is the retreat cost of Shiftry 12?

What does the + after the damage on Cross-Cut mean?

How often can you use Evolutionary Fan?

Can an older Shiftry print be played in a tournament?

What does Shiftry evolve from?

Can Shiftry 12 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Shiftry 12 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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