Poltchageist 5 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 30 HP and a Fire weakness.
Grass · Basic · Pitch Black · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Poltchageist 5 do in a game?
Poltchageist 5 is a Grass Pokémon card with 30 HP, printed as Basic.
Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 15 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Poltchageist 5Pitch Black
Poltchageist 5 performance summary
30 HP · Grass · Basic · retreat 0 · Fire weakness ×2
Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 0.1% 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 | 100.0% | 0 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.
Poltchageist 530 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 350 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Poltchageist 5
- Hit points 30 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Fire attack printed at 15 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 4 of the 4 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Poltchageist 5 at a glance
- What it is. A Grass Pokémon card with 30 HP printed as Basic, printed in Pitch Black.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 15 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 0 Energy to retreat, discarded from the card itself.
- Where it can be played. Standard and Unlimited and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark J.
- 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 Poltchageist 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furtive Drop | 1 Colorless | 1 | — | — | Place 1 damage counter on your opponent's Active Pokémon. |
This card has no retreat cost at all, so it can leave the active spot without discarding any Energy — the only limit is that retreating happens once a turn.
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.
This card places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage
Furtive Drop puts damage counters on a Pokémon instead of dealing damage to it. The two look alike on the board — one counter is ten damage — but the rules treat them apart: anything that reduces or prevents damage does not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them either.
How does Poltchageist 5 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 0 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 0 typically have 103 HP and print 61 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 — this card | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 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 Poltchageist 5 stands highest on HP — number 17,062 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 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 Poltchageist 5 does without attacking
Poltchageist 5 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.
What does being a Grass card do for Poltchageist 5?
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 — this card | 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 Grass weakness.
What being a Grass card is worth
Groups that most often print a Grass weakness: Fighting (1,884 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Grass cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.
What knocks out Poltchageist 5 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Fire attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 15 printed damage rather than 30.
Vulpix20 damage20 damage becomes 40 against this card
Poltchageist 530 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 1,393 cards in the archive that can remove Poltchageist 5 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 20 printed damage against a bar of 15. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charizard ex (183) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (199) | 151 | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Charizard ex (161) | Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos | 330 | 330 | 660 |
| Mega Emboar ex (31) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Mega Emboar ex (273) | Ascended Heroes | 380 | 320 | 640 |
| Charizard VSTAR (19) | Crown Zenith | 280 | 320 | 640 |
30 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 15 damage or more is enough. 1,418 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Poltchageist as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Poltchageist 5 is one print of Poltchageist. 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 Poltchageist 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 Poltchageist print, and can the older ones still be played?
4 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poltchageist 021/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Poltchageist 171/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Poltchageist 020/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Poltchageist 005/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
4 of the 4 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 Poltchageist 5?
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.
3 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 Poltchageist 5 in Pitch Black?
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.
110
Tropius [1]
70
Grubbin [2]
70
Fomantis [3]
260
Lurantis ex [4]
60
Sinistcha [6]
140
Heatran [7]
350
Mega Delphox ex [8]
80
Sizzlipede [9]
140
Centiskorch [10]
80
Charcadet [11]
These are the cards numbered either side of #5 in Pitch Black. 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 Poltchageist 5, 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.
| 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 J, printed next to the card number. It was released on July 17, 2026.
Which generation of cards does Poltchageist 5 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 | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J — this card | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Poltchageist 5 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.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Fire attack printed at 15 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 30 HP.
- 1,418 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Poltchageist 5 card record
| Hit points | 30 HP | Type | Grass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Fire ×2 | Retreat cost | 0 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Regulation mark | Mark J |
| Pokédex number | #1012 | Set | Pitch Black |
| Card number | 5 of 84 | Series | Mega Evolution |
| Released | July 17, 2026 | Rarity | Common |
| Illustrator | Mousho | ||
| Tournament legality | Standard and Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Poltchageist 5 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Poltchageist 5 — 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.
Industry source
Second-party sources — marketplaces, trade associations, research institutes and companies that compile data about the market.