Arceus AR5 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Arceus AR5
Brand: Pokémon
Author: Mitsuhiro Arita

This card has 80 HP and a Fighting weakness.

Colorless · Basic · Arceus · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Arceus AR5 do in a game?

Arceus AR5 is a Colorless Pokémon card with 80 HP, printed as Basic.

Because of the Fighting weakness, any Fighting attack printed at 40 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Colorless Basic Rare Unlimited #493 Arceus

Arceus AR5Arceus

80 HP · Colorless · Basic · retreat 1 · Fighting weakness ×2

Hit points80 HP33.1% of 17,290 in the 80~120 band

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

Price trackRareArceus37 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classBasic

RarityRare

SetArceus

Card numberAR5

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$49.70Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by40 damage80 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness Cards that can do it1,221 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Other prints of this name37 printsPrinted HP and legality move from print to print Cards in the same line32 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #493 Where it can be playedUnlimitedRead from the official format list

How Arceus AR5 is built, on three measures

Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 38.6%.

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 Arceus AR5 is built, on three measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	38.6%	80 HP
Retreat lightness	94.4%	1 Energy
Attack cost lightness	100.0%	0 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

0ERipple Swellhas printed text—
3ESky Spearhas printed text—

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

Where it stands

No. 9,046of 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 9,046 at 80 HP.

Colorless cardsNo. 999of 2,171 by printed HP ArceusNo. 40of 102 by printed HP

This cardArceus AR5Arceus80 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 300 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Arceus AR5

Hit points 80 HP puts it in the 80~120 band, where 33.1% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Weakness A Fighting attack printed at 40 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Legality 10 of the 35 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Arceus AR5 at a glance

What it is. A Colorless Pokémon card with 80 HP printed as Basic, printed in Arceus.
What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
What it fears. A Fighting weakness at ×2, which means 40 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 Arceus AR5 cost, and what do they hit for?

Every attack printed on the card, with the Energy it asks for.

Arceus AR5 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Ripple Swell	No Energy	0	—	—	If you have 6 Arceus in play and each of them is a different type, search your deck for up to 6 basic Energy cards. Attach each of those Energy cards to a different Pokémon you have in play. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Sky Spear	3 Colorless	3	—	—	Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 80 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Remove all Energy cards attached to Arceus and put them in the Lost Zone.

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

Ripple Swellno Energy at all0 Energy cards

Sky Spear3 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.

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How does Arceus AR5 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.

No.9,046by HP in the archive

Arceus AR5 prints 80 HP, which puts it at number 9,046 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).

Bottom 48%Where it sits on printed HP

This card80 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest Arceus printed130 HP

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

This card prints 80 HP, which is 21% 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 80 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

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits

0 — this card1.8%304 cards

154.4%9,392 cards

226.4%4,565 cards

314.7%2,533 cards

42.4%421 cards

50.3%47 cards

17,262 cards have at least one attack with an Energy cost. The cheapest on this card asks 0 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 0 typically have 84 HP and print 45 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0 — this card	1.8%	304 cards
1	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

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. 40of 102

That is where Arceus AR5 stands highest on HP — number 40 of 102 cards in Arceus. 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. 9,046 of 17,290 by HP · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
Colorless cards — 2,173 cards No. 999 of 2,171 by HP · top by HP: Slaking ex, 340
Arceus — 111 cards No. 40 of 102 by HP · top by HP: Charizard, 140

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 80 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 80

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%)

Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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What does being a Colorless card do for Arceus AR5?

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 40 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Arceus AR5 · Basic 80 HP It prints no attack damage.

Takes double from this card — no group most often prints a Colorless 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

Colorless — this cardmost 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	14.1%	2,435 cards
Colorless — this card	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

Colorlessweak 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 Colorless weakness.

What being a Colorless card is worth

No group in the archive most often prints a Colorless weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Colorless cards are themselves most exposed to Fighting.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Arceus AR5 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 40 printed damage rather than 80.

Cards that remove it in one attack

1,221

Fighting damage needed to knock it out

Counted across the whole card archive. 80 HP against a Fighting weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackCynthia's GabiteAscended Heroes 11040 damage

×2Fighting weakness · 40 printed damage is enough
40 damage becomes 80 against this card

This cardArceus AR5Arceus AR580 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 1,208 cards in the archive that can remove Arceus AR5 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 40. 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.

Arceusweak to Fighting ×2

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

Fighting cards that remove Arceus 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

80 HP against a Fighting ×2 weakness means any Fighting attack printed at 40 damage or more is enough. 1,221 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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

Arceus AR5 is one print of Arceus. 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.

Arceus has been printed 37 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 Arceus cards ever printedPokédex #493Prints on record 37Toughest print 280 HPThis card 80 HP

37prints

Legal in Standard10Older prints, not in Standard27

Every Arceus 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 Arceus printed is 280 HP, and this card is 28.6% of it

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

Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX 221/236the toughest Arceus ever printedSM - Cosmic Eclipse280 HP
Arceus AR5against that record28.6% of the record80 HP

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

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

37 prints carry this name in the archive, and 35 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 (280 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

35 rows are shown of the 37 prints counted under this name.

Arceus prints — can each one still be played?
Print	Set	Regulation mark	Standard
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX 221/236	SM - Cosmic Eclipse	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus VSTAR GG70/GG70	SWSH: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX 258/236	SM - Cosmic Eclipse	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX 220/236	SM - Cosmic Eclipse	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX 156/236	SM - Cosmic Eclipse	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus VSTAR 123/172	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus VSTAR 184/172	SWSH09: Brilliant Stars	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus VSTAR 176/172	SWSH09: Brilliant Stars	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus VSTAR SWSH307	SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus V 166/172	SWSH09: Brilliant Stars	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus V SWSH204	SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus V 122/172	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus V 165/172	SWSH09: Brilliant Stars	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus V SWSH306	SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Mark F	Legal in Standard
Arceus ◇ 96/131	SM - Forbidden Light	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus XY116	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Shining Arceus 57/73	Shining Legends	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus XY197	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus XY83	XY Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus LV.X DP56	Diamond and Pearl Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus LV.X 95/99	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus LV.X 94/99	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus LV.X DP53	Diamond and Pearl Promos	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus LV.X 96/99	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Tangrowth 010/099	Deck Exclusives	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Swalot 009/099	Deck Exclusives	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR4	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR9	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR2	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR5	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR7	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR3	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR8	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR1	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard
Arceus AR6	Arceus	No mark printed	Not legal in Standard

10 of the 35 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 Arceus AR5 in Arceus?

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 #AR5 in Arceus. 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 Arceus AR5, 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

“You may have as many of this card in your deck as you like.”

Rulebook clauses that apply to Arceus AR5
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%

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.

Arceus AR5 — 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 November 4, 2009.

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Arceus AR5 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

Every card in the archiveNo. 9,046 of 17,290

Colorless cardsNo. 999 of 2,171

ArceusNo. 40 of 102

What actually removes it

A Fighting attack printed at 40 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 80 HP.
1,221 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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Arceus AR5 card record

Arceus AR5 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	80 HP	Type	Colorless
Weakness	Fighting ×2	Retreat cost	1 Energy
Card type	Basic	Pokédex number	#493
Set	Arceus	Card number	AR5 of 99
Series	Platinum	Released	November 4, 2009
Rarity	Rare	Illustrator	Mitsuhiro Arita
Tournament legality	Unlimited only
Printed rule	You may have as many of this card in your deck as you like.

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

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What does Arceus AR5 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

$49.70

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August 14, 2026

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

Arceus AR5 priceOne year of daily prices, every print variant, and where to buy it.Open the price page

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Arceus AR5 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Arceus AR5?

Arceus AR5 has 80 HP and a Fighting weakness at ×2, so a Fighting attack printed at 40 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 80.

What is the retreat cost of Arceus AR5?

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

Can an older Arceus print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 35 prints listed on this page, 10 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 Arceus AR5 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.

What does the rule on Arceus AR5 mean?

The card reads “You may have as many of this card in your deck as you like.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Arceus AR5 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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Arceus AR5 — what does this card actually do?

What does Arceus AR5 do in a game?

Arceus AR5 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Arceus AR5 at a glance

What do the attacks on Arceus AR5 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Arceus AR5 compare with every other card?

What does being a Colorless card do for Arceus AR5?

What knocks out Arceus AR5 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

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

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

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Arceus AR5?

What was printed next to Arceus AR5 in Arceus?

Which rules apply to Arceus AR5, and where can it be played?

Arceus AR5 in depth — what these figures add up to

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

What actually removes it

Arceus AR5 card record

What does Arceus AR5 cost?

Arceus AR5 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Arceus AR5?

What is the retreat cost of Arceus AR5?

Can an older Arceus print be played in a tournament?

Can Arceus AR5 be played in a tournament?

What does the rule on Arceus AR5 mean?

Does this page say how good Arceus AR5 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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