Articuno 16 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Articuno 16
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Mitsuhiro Arita

This card has 100 HP, a top attack printed at 50 damage and a Metal weakness.

Water · Basic · Supreme Victors · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Articuno 16 do in a game?

Articuno 16 is a Water Pokémon card with 100 HP, printed as Basic.

Its strongest attack, Ice Beam, is printed at 50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.

Water Basic Rare Unlimited #144 Articuno

Articuno 16Supreme Victors

100 HP · Water · Basic · retreat 2 · Metal weakness +30

Top printed damage5013 per Energy Ice Beam50 damage for 4 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points100 HP33.1% of 17,290 in the 80~120 band

Printed damage5022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band

Retreat cost2 Energy28.6% of 17,240 in the 2 band

Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 13 · typical 34.7
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3

Price trackRareSupreme Victors45 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classBasic

RarityRare

SetSupreme Victors

Card number16

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$21.99Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Turns of setup4 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it467 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name45 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line41 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #144 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Articuno 16 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Hit points — top 43.9% of the archive. Weakest on Attack cost lightness — bottom 17.4%.

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 Articuno 16 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	56.1%	100 HP
Top printed damage	49.6%	50 damage
Energy efficiency	28.4%	13 per Energy
Retreat lightness	45.3%	2 Energy
Attack cost lightness	17.4%	3 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

3ESharp Beak10 damage per Energy card · has printed text30damage
4EIce Beam13 damage per Energy card · has printed text50damage

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

Where it stands

No. 6,636of 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 6,636 at 100 HP.

Water cardsNo. 900of 2,435 by printed HP Supreme VictorsNo. 15of 146 by printed HP

This cardArticuno 16Supreme Victors100 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 280 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Articuno 16

Hit points 100 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 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
Legality 6 of the 43 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Articuno 16 at a glance

What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 100 HP printed as Basic, printed in Supreme Victors.
What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 50 damage for 4 Energy.
What it fears. A Metal weakness at +30.
What it costs to move. 2 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 Articuno 16 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 4 Energy and returns 50 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.

Articuno 16 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Sharp Beak	1 Water + 2 Colorless	3	30+	10	Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage.
Ice Beam	2 Water + 2 Colorless	4	50	13	Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Sharp Beak3 Energy cards

Ice Beam4 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.

Sharp Beak 3 Energy30 damage for 3 Energy — 10 per Energy card30
Ice Beam 4 Energy50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 per Energy card50

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (50).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

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

Sharp Beak is printed as 30+, 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 Articuno 16 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.

Articuno 16 — Supreme Victors — ArticunoSupreme Victors 16

No.6,636by HP in the archive

Articuno 16 prints 100 HP, which puts it at number 6,636 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).

50% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 38%Where it sits on printed HP

This card100 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Articuno printed120 HP

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

This card prints 100 HP, which is 26% 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 100 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 50.

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

226.4%4,565 cards

3 — this card14.7%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 3 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 3 typically have 153 HP and print 104 damage.

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

149.3%8,503 cards

2 — this card28.6%4,926 cards

312.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 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.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
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

No. 15of 146

That is where Articuno 16 stands highest on HP — number 15 of 146 cards in Supreme Victors. 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. 6,636 of 17,290 by HP · No. 6,925 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 43% on damage
Water cards — 2,435 cards No. 900 of 2,435 by HP · No. 912 of 2,316 by damage · top by HP: Wailord ex, 380

top 39% on damage
Supreme Victors — 153 cards No. 15 of 146 by HP · No. 24 of 137 by damage · top by HP: Wailord, 180

top 17% 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 100 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 100
Top printed damage 50 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 50

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

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.

Open the group this card falls into

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Is Articuno 16 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 50 damage attack that needs 4 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

Articuno 16 — this card13.050 damage for 4 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 3 typically return 34.7 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
Articuno 16 — this card	13.0	50 damage for 4 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsSharp Beak 30 / 3Ice Beam 50 / 4

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 Articuno 16.
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
Sharp Beak	—	10	—
Ice Beam	—	13	—

This card, per Energy card

13 damage

Typical for a 3 Energy attack

34.7 damage

Difference

-21.7 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 50 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Water card do for Articuno 16?

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 925 Metal cards carry that type Damage from Metal attacks is increased before it is applied.

Articuno 16 · Basic 100 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 50 damage.

Takes double from this card 1,574 cards in groups that print a Water weakness Against Fire, printed damage from this card counts double.

How the archive splits by energy type

Psychicmost often weak to Psychic13.5%2,335 cards

Water — this cardmost 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

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
Group	Share	Value
Psychic	13.5%	2,335 cards
Water — this card	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	7.2%	1,249 cards
Dragon	3.1%	530 cards
Fairy	1.4%	237 cards

Waterweak to Metal

Fireweak to Water

Read from the weakness printed on each group. The first row is this card; the rest are groups that most often print a Water weakness.

What being a Water card is worth

Groups that most often print a Water weakness: Fire (1,574 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Water cards are themselves most exposed to Metal.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Articuno 16 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

The weakness printed on the card decides which attacks are enough to remove it in one turn.

Cards that remove it in one attack

467

Cards it removes in one attack

958

Metal damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 100 HP against a Metal weakness at +30 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackDuraludonPhantasmal Flames 7470 damage

+30Metal weakness · 70 printed damage is enough
70 damage becomes 100 against this card

This cardArticuno 16Supreme Victors 16100 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 464 cards in the archive that can remove Articuno 16 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 70 printed damage against a bar of 70. 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.

Articunoweak to Metal +30

Articunoresists Fighting -20

Read from the two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.

What the Fighting resistance changes

Damage from Fighting 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.

Metal cards that remove Articuno in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH163)	SWSH Black Star Promos	320	340	340
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH164)	SWSH Black Star Promos	320	340	340
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH165)	SWSH Black Star Promos	320	340	340
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH166)	SWSH Black Star Promos	320	340	340
Zacian VSTAR (96)	Crown Zenith	270	310	310
Aggron VMAX (97)	Brilliant Stars	330	270	270

100 HP Volcarona [13]

Cards this one removes in a single attack

958 cards in the archive are weak to Water 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 Articuno as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Articuno 16 is one print of Articuno. 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.

Articuno has been printed 45 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 Articuno cards ever printedPokédex #144Prints on record 45Toughest print 300 HPThis card 100 HP

45prints

Legal in Standard6Older prints, not in Standard39

Every Articuno 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 Articuno printed is 300 HP, and this card is 33.3% of it

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

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX SM210the toughest Articuno ever printedSM Promos300 HP
Articuno 16against that record33.3% of the record100 HP

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

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

45 prints carry this name in the archive, and 43 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 (300 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

43 rows are shown of the 45 prints counted under this name.

Articuno prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX SM210	SM Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX 44/68	Hidden Fates	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX 66/68	Hidden Fates	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX 69/68	Hidden Fates	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno V 170/198	SWSH06: Chilling Reign	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno V TG16/TG30	SWSH10: Astral Radiance Trainer Gallery	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno V 058/198	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno V 169/198	SWSH06: Chilling Reign	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno V 181/172	SWSH09: Brilliant Stars	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Articuno-EX 132/135	Plasma Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno-GX 171/168	SM - Celestial Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno-GX SV54/SV94	Hidden Fates: Shiny Vault	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno-GX 154/168	SM - Celestial Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno-EX 25/135	Plasma Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno-GX 31/168	SM - Celestial Storm	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 25/83	Generations	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Team Rocket's Articuno 051/182	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Articuno SM144	SM Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno SWSH123	SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 27/99	Next Destinies	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 17/108	XY - Roaring Skies	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 32/113	Legendary Treasures	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno 063/203	Prize Pack Series Cards	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 016/108	Deck Exclusives	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Galarian Articuno SWSH282	SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Mark E	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 144/165	SV: Scarlet & Violet 151	Mark G	Legal in Standard
Articuno 024/078	Pokemon GO	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Articuno ex 114/112	EX FireRed & LeafGreen	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 161/159	SV09: Journey Together	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Articuno 32/181	SM - Team Up	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 036/195	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Articuno 032/159	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Mark I	Legal in Standard
Rocket's Articuno ex 96/109	EX Team Rocket Returns	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 1/100	Majestic Dawn	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 16	Supreme Victors	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Team Aqua's Seviper 009/034	Trading Card Game Classic	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 48/53	WoTC Promo	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 004/144	Skyridge	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 002/110	Legendary Collection	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 148	Supreme Victors	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 02/62	Fossil	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 17/62	Fossil	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Articuno 22/53	WoTC Promo	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

6 of the 43 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 Articuno 16 in Supreme Victors?

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.

90 Butterfree FB [17]

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #16 in Supreme Victors. 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 Articuno 16, 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 Articuno 16
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.

Articuno 16 — 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 August 19, 2009.

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Articuno 16 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, Ice Beam, needs 4 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 4 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 13 damage for every Energy card attached.
Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 6,636 of 17,290

Water cardsNo. 900 of 2,435

Supreme VictorsNo. 15 of 146

What actually removes it

A Metal attack printed at 70 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 100 HP.
467 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 958 cards in one attack.
Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.

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Articuno 16 card record

Articuno 16 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	100 HP	Type	Water
Weakness	Metal +30	Retreat cost	2 Energy
Card type	Basic	Pokédex number	#144
Set	Supreme Victors	Card number	16 of 147
Series	Platinum	Released	August 19, 2009
Rarity	Rare	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 Articuno 16 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

$21.99

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One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.

Articuno 16 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page

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Articuno 16 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Articuno 16?

Articuno 16 has 100 HP and a Metal weakness at +30, so a Metal attack printed at 70 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 100.

What is the strongest attack on Articuno 16?

Ice Beam, printed at 50 damage for 4 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

What is the retreat cost of Articuno 16?

2 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 Sharp Beak 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 — "Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage."

Can an older Articuno print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 43 prints listed on this page, 6 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 Articuno 16 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 Articuno 16 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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Articuno 16 — what does this card actually do?

What does Articuno 16 do in a game?

Articuno 16 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Articuno 16 at a glance

What do the attacks on Articuno 16 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Articuno 16 compare with every other card?

Is Articuno 16 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

What does being a Water card do for Articuno 16?

What knocks out Articuno 16 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

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

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

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Articuno 16?

What was printed next to Articuno 16 in Supreme Victors?

Which rules apply to Articuno 16, and where can it be played?

Articuno 16 in depth — what these figures add up to

What it asks a deck for

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Articuno 16 card record

What does Articuno 16 cost?

Articuno 16 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Articuno 16?

What is the strongest attack on Articuno 16?

What is the retreat cost of Articuno 16?

What does the + after the damage on Sharp Beak mean?

Can an older Articuno print be played in a tournament?

Can Articuno 16 be played in a tournament?

Does this page say how good Articuno 16 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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