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Infernape 23 — what does this card actually do?

This card has 130 HP, a top attack printed at 50 damage and a Water weakness.

Fire · Stage 2 · Ultra Prism · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Infernape 23 do in a game?

Infernape 23 is a Fire Pokémon card with 130 HP, printed as Stage 2.

Its strongest attack, Burst Punch, is printed at 50 damage for 2 Energy — 25 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Water weakness, any Water attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Infernape 23Ultra Prism

Infernape 23 performance summary

130 HP · Fire · Stage 2 · retreat 1 · Water weakness ×2

Top printed damage5025 per Energy Burst Punch50 damage for 2 Energy
as of July 28, 2026
Hit points130 HP15.5% of 17,290 in the 130~180 band
Printed damage5022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band
Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band
Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 25 · typical 32.5
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Price trackRare HoloUltra Prism18 printsranked among Stage 2 cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classStage 2
RarityRare Holo
SetUltra Prism
Card number23
AbilityFlaming Fighter
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Infernape 23 is built, on five measures
Hit points130 HPTop printed damage50 damageEnergy efficiency25 per EnergyRetreat lightness1 EnergyAttack cost lightness2 Energy

Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% 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.

How Infernape 23 is built, on five measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points71.7%130 HP
Top printed damage49.6%50 damage
Energy efficiency60.6%25 per Energy
Retreat lightness94.4%1 Energy
Attack cost lightness43.8%2 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 2EBurst Punch25 damage per Energy card · has printed text50damage

1 attack printed on the card. The badge is the Energy it asks for.

Where it stands

Among the 17,290 cards in every card in the archive that carry printed HP, this one is number 4,029 at 130 HP.

This cardInfernape 23 — Ultra PrismInfernape 23Ultra Prism130 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP250 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex — Ascended HeroesMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Infernape 23

  • Hit points 130 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
  • Energy It returns 25 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
  • Weakness A Water attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
  • Legality 5 of the 17 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Infernape 23 at a glance

  • What it is. A Fire Pokémon card with 130 HP printed as Stage 2, printed in Ultra Prism.
  • What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 50 damage for 2 Energy.
  • What it fears. A Water weakness at ×2, which means 65 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 and Expanded 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 Infernape 23 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 50 damage, which is 25 damage for every Energy card attached.

Infernape 23 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Burst Punch1 Fire + 1 Colorless25025Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Burned.

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

Burst Punch2 Energy cards

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.

  • Burst Punch 2 Energy50 damage for 2 Energy — 25 per Energy card50

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

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How does Infernape 23 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.

Infernape 23 — Ultra Prism
InfernapeUltra Prism 23

Infernape 23 prints 130 HP, which puts it at number 4,029 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

  • This card130 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
  • Strongest Stage 2 card380 HP
  • Strongest Infernape printed150 HP
Mega Emboar ex — Ascended Heroes 273 · the highest printed HP in the archive at 380

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

This card prints 130 HP, which is 34% 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
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~180 — this card15.5%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 130 HP.

Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~7038.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~180 — this card15.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards
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
GroupShareValue
~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
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
GroupShareValue
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
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
GroupShareValue
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

That is where Infernape 23 stands highest on HP — number 4,029 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.

  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 4,029 of 17,290 by HP · No. 6,925 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 43% on damage
  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Fire cards — 1,574 cards No. 404 of 1,574 by HP · No. 767 of 1,526 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 50% on damage
  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Stage 2 cards — 1,749 cards No. 1,100 of 1,749 by HP · No. 1,309 of 1,721 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 76% on damage
  • Solgaleo-GX — 250 HP, the highest in this group
    Ultra Prism — 178 cards No. 41 of 138 by HP · No. 74 of 128 by damage · top by HP: Solgaleo-GX, 250
    top 57% 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 130 HPmiddle half 60–130 HP
  • Top printed damage 50 damagemiddle half 20–90 damage
  • 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
2,679 of 17,290 (15.5%)
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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What Infernape 23 does without attacking

Infernape 23 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.

Printed effects
1
Capped at once a turn
None
Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.
Flaming Fighter — Ability
Put 6 damage counters instead of 2 on your opponent's Burned Pokémon between turns.
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.

This effect places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage

Flaming Fighter puts damage counters on a Pokémon rather than dealing damage to it. One counter is ten damage on the board, but the rules keep them apart: effects that reduce or prevent damage do not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them.

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Is Infernape 23 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 50 damage attack that needs 2 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
Infernape 23 — this card25.050 damage for 2 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 25.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
GroupShareValue
1 Energy49.049 damage typical
2 Energy32.565 damage typical
3 Energy34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy41.8209 damage typical
Infernape 23 — this card25.050 damage for 2 Energy
2501250 damage
012345 Energy
Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsBurst Punch 50 / 2

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 Infernape 23.
GroupTypical printed damageDamage per Energy cardCards in this group
Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy45304
Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy49499,392
Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy65334,565
Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy104352,533
Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy11128421
Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy2094247
Burst Punch25
This card, per Energy card
25 damage
Typical for a 2 Energy attack
32.5 damage
Difference
-7.5 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 50 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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What does being a Fire card do for Infernape 23?

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 2,435 Water cards carry that type A Water attack printed at 65 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Infernape 23 · Stage 2 130 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 50 damage.
Takes double from this card 3,312 cards in groups that print a Fire weakness Against Grass and Metal, printed damage from this card counts double.
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
Fire — this cardmost 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
GroupShareValue
Psychic13.5%2,335 cards
Water14.1%2,435 cards
Colorless12.6%2,173 cards
Fire — this card9.1%1,574 cards
Fighting10.9%1,884 cards
Lightning8.8%1,520 cards
Grass13.8%2,387 cards
Metal5.4%925 cards
Darkness7.2%1,249 cards
Dragon3.1%530 cards
Fairy1.4%237 cards
Fireweak to Water
Grassweak to Fire
Metalweak to Fire

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

What being a Fire card is worth

Groups that most often print a Fire weakness: Grass (2,387 cards) and Metal (925 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Fire cards are themselves most exposed to Water.

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What knocks out Infernape 23 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Water attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 65 printed damage rather than 130.

Cards that remove it in one attack
741
Cards it removes in one attack
1,815
Water damage needed to knock it out
65
Counted across the whole card archive. 130 HP against a Water weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackDewgongDewgongPhantasmal Flames 2270 damage
×2Water weakness · 65 printed damage is enough
70 damage becomes 140 against this card
This cardInfernape 23Infernape 23Ultra Prism 23130 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 739 cards in the archive that can remove Infernape 23 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 70 printed damage against a bar of 65. 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.

Infernapeweak to Water ×2

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

Water cards that remove Infernape in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Vaporeon ex (23)Prismatic Evolutions280280560
Vaporeon ex (149)Prismatic Evolutions280280560
Wailord ex (16)Pitch Black380270540
Wailord ex (97)Pitch Black380270540
Palafin ex (61)Twilight Masquerade340250500
Palafin ex (193)Twilight Masquerade340250500

130 HP against a Water ×2 weakness means any Water attack printed at 65 damage or more is enough. 741 cards in the archive clear that bar.

Cards this one removes in a single attack

1,815 cards in the archive are weak to Fire 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 Infernape as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?

Infernape 23 is one print of Infernape. 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.

Infernape has been printed 18 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 Infernape cards ever printedPokédex #392Prints on record 18Toughest print 200 HPThis card 130 HP
18prints
Legal in Standard5Older prints, not in Standard13

Every Infernape 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 Infernape printed is 200 HP, and this card is 65% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon
  • Infernape V SWSH252the toughest Infernape ever printedSWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards200 HP
  • Infernape 23against that record65% of the record130 HP

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

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What has to be in play before Infernape 23 can be?

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

The Infernape line, oldest stage first
  • 1ChimcharChimcharHardest attack printed at this stage: 40 damage60 HP
  • 2MonfernoMonfernoHardest attack printed at this stage: 80 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it90 HP
  • 3InfernapeInfernapeHardest attack printed at this stage: 200 damage. Evolving here adds 60 HP over the stage before it150 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (150 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 Infernape print, and can the older ones still be played?

18 prints carry this name in the archive, and 17 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 (200 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

17 rows are shown of the 18 prints counted under this name.

Infernape prints — can each one still be played?
PrintSetRegulation markStandard
Infernape V SWSH252SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo CardsMark FLegal in Standard
Infernape 026/172SWSH09: Brilliant StarsMark FLegal in Standard
Infernape 116SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo CardsMark HLegal in Standard
Infernape 173/167SV06: Twilight MasqueradeMark HLegal in Standard
Infernape 033/167SV06: Twilight MasqueradeMark HLegal in Standard
Infernape 17/135Plasma StormNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 23/156SM - Ultra PrismNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 59/131SM - Forbidden LightNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 20/114XY - Steam SiegeNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape LV.X 121/130Diamond and PearlNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape LV.X DP10Diamond and Pearl PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 3/100StormfrontNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape E4 LV.X 108/111Rising RivalsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 22/100Majestic DawnNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 31/127PlatinumNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape 5/130Diamond and PearlNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Infernape E4 43/111Rising RivalsNo mark printedNot legal in Standard

5 of the 17 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 Infernape 23?

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 Infernape 23
CardSetHPTop damageRetreat
CharizardPlasma Storm1601503
CharizardDragon120602
TyphlosionNeo Genesis100802
CharizardStormfront1201003
CharizardSM Black Star Promos150302
Blaine's CharizardGym Challenge100203

This card itself is 130 HP, 50 top damage and 1 retreat, and every card here is Fire 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 Infernape 23 in Ultra Prism?

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 #23 in Ultra Prism. 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 Infernape 23, 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 Infernape 23
ClauseWhat the rulebook saysCards it applies toShare of the archive
WeaknessSome Pokemon have Weakness or Resistance to Pokemon of certain types, marked in the lower-left corner of the card.16,744 cards81.9%
RetreatRetreat your Active Pokemon (only once per turn).17,244 cards84.3%
Energy per turnYou can attach Energy just once each turn!17,180 cards84.0%

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.

Infernape 23 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardNot listedThis card is not listed for this format
ExpandedLegalCan be played in this format
UnlimitedLegalCan 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 and Expanded play. It was released on February 2, 2018.

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Infernape 23 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, Burst Punch, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
  • That works out at 25 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 — Monferno has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 4,029 of 17,290
Fire cardsNo. 404 of 1,574
Stage 2 cardsNo. 1,100 of 1,749
Ultra PrismNo. 41 of 138

What actually removes it

  • A Water attack printed at 65 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 130 HP.
  • 741 cards in the archive clear that bar.
  • Going the other way, it removes 1,815 cards in one attack.
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Infernape 23 card record

Infernape 23 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points130 HPTypeFire
WeaknessWater ×2Retreat cost1 Energy
Evolves fromMonfernoCard typeStage 2
Pokédex number#392SetUltra Prism
Card number23 of 156SeriesSun & Moon
ReleasedFebruary 2, 2018RarityRare Holo
Illustratornagimiso
Tournament legalityUnlimited and Expanded only

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

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What does Infernape 23 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
$2.17
Read on
August 14, 2026
One figure only — the price record, the daily chart and the marketplaces live on the price page.
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Infernape 23 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Infernape 23?

Infernape 23 has 130 HP and a Water weakness at ×2, so a Water attack printed at 65 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 130.

What is the strongest attack on Infernape 23?

Burst Punch, printed at 50 damage for 2 Energy — 25 damage per Energy card. Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Burned.

What is the retreat cost of Infernape 23?

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

Does Infernape 23 deal damage or place damage counters?

It places damage counters. One counter is ten damage on the board, but the two are different things in the rules: weakness and resistance are not applied to counters, and effects that reduce or prevent damage do not stop counters from being placed.

Can an older Infernape print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 17 prints listed on this page, 5 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 Infernape evolve from?

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

Can Infernape 23 be played in a tournament?

It is legal in Unlimited and Expanded play. Standard events run on a rotating list of sets, so check the current rotation before entering one.

Does this page say how good Infernape 23 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.

1
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.

1
Pokémon TCG Data — openly published card files (card text, HP, attacks, weakness, retreat cost, illustrator credits) github.com
2
TCGdex card database — openly licensed card files (set membership and card numbering) github.com
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Before you rely on these figures