N's Zoroark ex 286 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 280 HP and a Grass weakness.
Darkness · Stage 1 ex · Ascended Heroes · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does N's Zoroark ex 286 do in a game?
N's Zoroark ex 286 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 280 HP, printed as Stage 1 ex.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 140 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
N's Zoroark ex 286Ascended Heroes
N's Zoroark ex 286 performance summary
280 HP · Darkness · Stage 1 ex · retreat 2 · Grass weakness ×2
Strongest on Hit points — top 3.5% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 43.8%.
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.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 96.5% | 280 HP |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 43.8% | 2 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 503 at 280 HP.
N's Zoroark ex 286280 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 100 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on N's Zoroark ex 286
- Hit points 280 HP puts it in the 240~280 band, where 3.3% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 140 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 6 of the 6 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
N's Zoroark ex 286 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 280 HP printed as Stage 1 ex, printed in Ascended Heroes.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 140 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 2 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Standard and Unlimited and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark I.
- 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 N's Zoroark ex 286 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night Joker | 2 Darkness | 2 | — | — | Choose 1 of your Benched N's Pokémon's attacks and use it as this attack. |
Retreating costs a further 2 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 N's Zoroark ex 286 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 280 HP, which is 74% 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 280 HP.
Cards in the 240~280 band typically print 158 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~70 | 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 — this card | 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 2 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.
| 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 |
17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 — this card | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where N's Zoroark ex 286 stands highest on HP — number 503 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 280 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 N's Zoroark ex 286 does without attacking
N's Zoroark ex 286 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.
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.
Trade 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.
Is N's Zoroark ex 286 strong for a ex card?
ex cards are built large to begin with, so measuring this one against the whole archive mixes up what the mechanic gives it with what the card itself gives it. Measured inside its own group, the two come apart.
The group is every ex card in the archive — 942 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.
What does being a Darkness card do for N's Zoroark ex 286?
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 Grass.
What knocks out N's Zoroark ex 286 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Grass attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 140 printed damage rather than 280.
140 damage becomes 280 against this card
N's Zoroark ex 286280 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 134 cards in the archive that can remove N's Zoroark ex 286 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 140 printed damage against a bar of 140. 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 weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flapple VMAX (19) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Flapple VMAX (164) | Battle Styles | 320 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (3) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (155) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Mega Venusaur ex (177) | Mega Evolution | 380 | 240 | 480 |
| Decidueye ex (12) | Perfect Order | 320 | 240 | 480 |
280 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 140 damage or more is enough. 134 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is N's Zoroark as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
N's Zoroark ex 286 is one print of N's Zoroark. 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 N's Zoroark 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 N's Zoroark print, and can the older ones still be played?
6 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| N's Zoroark ex 286/217 | ME: Ascended Heroes | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| N's Zoroark ex 185/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| N's Zoroark ex 189/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| N's Zoroark ex 175/159 | SV09: Journey Together | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| N's Zoroark ex 098/159 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| N's Zoroark ex 137/217 | ME: Ascended Heroes | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
6 of the 6 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 summaryWhat can you use instead of N's Zoroark ex 286?
Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.
| Card | Set | HP | Top damage | Retreat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbreon ex | Prismatic Evolutions | 280 | 160 | 2 |
| Mega Darkrai ex | Pitch Black | 280 | 110 | 2 |
| Mega Darkrai ex | Pitch Black | 280 | 110 | 2 |
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex | Ascended Heroes | 320 | 180 | 2 |
| Team Rocket's Crobat ex | Destined Rivals | 310 | 120 | 1 |
| Gengar ex | Temporal Forces | 310 | 160 | 2 |
This card itself is 280 HP, 0 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Darkness like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind N's Zoroark ex 286?
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 N's Zoroark ex 286 in Ascended Heroes?
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 #286 in Ascended Heroes. 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 N's Zoroark ex 286, 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
“Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.”
Prize cards your opponent takes when it is knocked out
Every knockout carries the opponent 2 steps closer to winning, and that is the cost of putting this card on the field whatever it cost to buy.
| 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 | Legal | Can be played in 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 Standard and Unlimited and Expanded play. It carries regulation mark I, printed next to the card number. It was released on January 30, 2026.
Which generation of cards does N's Zoroark ex 286 belong to?
The single letter printed beside the card number groups a card with everything issued under the same rules. Tournament formats are cut along those letters, so the size of a letter is the size of the pool a card sits in.
8,194 cards in the archive carry a regulation mark. Older prints carry none at all, so this is not the whole archive.
The regulation mark is the single letter recorded with each modern card. Older prints carry no mark at all, so this axis covers only the part of the archive that has one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Mark D | 15.4% | 1,261 cards |
| Mark E | 14.7% | 1,202 cards |
| Mark F | 14.4% | 1,180 cards |
| Mark G | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I — this card | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
N's Zoroark ex 286 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
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — N's Zorua has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Grass attack printed at 140 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 280 HP.
- 134 cards in the archive clear that bar.
N's Zoroark ex 286 card record
| Hit points | 280 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Evolves from | N's Zorua | Card type | Stage 1 ex |
| Regulation mark | Mark I | Pokédex number | #571 |
| Set | Ascended Heroes | Card number | 286 of 217 |
| Series | Mega Evolution | Released | January 30, 2026 |
| Rarity | Special Illustration Rare (SIR) | Illustrator | Raita Kazama |
| Tournament legality | Standard and Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
| Printed rule | Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does N's Zoroark ex 286 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
N's Zoroark ex 286 — 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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Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.