Alolan Sandshrew 28 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 60 HP, a top attack printed at 10 damage and a Metal weakness.
Water · Basic · Ultra Prism · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Alolan Sandshrew 28 do in a game?
Alolan Sandshrew 28 is a Water Pokémon card with 60 HP, printed as Basic.
Its strongest attack, Fury Swipes, is printed at 10 damage for 0 Energy.
Because of the Metal weakness, any Metal attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Sandshrew 28Ultra Prism
Alolan Sandshrew 28 performance summary
60 HP · Water · Basic · retreat 1 · Metal weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 0.1% of the archive. Weakest on Top printed damage — 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 | 13.1% | 60 HP |
| Top printed damage | 0.0% | 10 damage |
| Retreat lightness | 94.4% | 1 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 100.0% | 0 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 12,840 at 60 HP.
Alolan Sandshrew 2860 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 320 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Alolan Sandshrew 28
- Hit points 60 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Weakness A Metal attack printed at 30 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Alolan Sandshrew 28 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 60 HP printed as Basic, printed in Ultra Prism.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 10 damage for 0 Energy.
- What it fears. A Metal weakness at ×2, which means 30 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.
What do the attacks on Alolan Sandshrew 28 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 0 Energy and returns 10 damage, which is 0 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fury Swipes | No Energy | 0 | 10× | — | Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage for each heads. |
Retreating costs a further 1 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
The Energy this attack asks a deck to attach before it can be used, drawn as the symbols printed on the card.
One Energy card attaches per turn, so the number of symbols is also the number of turns the attack waits.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Fury Swipes is printed as 10×, so the printed number is multiplied — the attack deals that much for each thing the sentence beside it counts.
How does Alolan Sandshrew 28 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 60 HP, which is 16% 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 60 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 10.
Cards in the ~30 band typically have 70 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 — this card | 42.7% | 6,938 cards |
| 40~60 | 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 |
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.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 |
That is where Alolan Sandshrew 28 stands highest on HP — number 12,840 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 60 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 10 damage
middle 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.
Open the group this card falls into
Back to summaryWhat does being a Water card do for Alolan Sandshrew 28?
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 — 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 |
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.
What knocks out Alolan Sandshrew 28 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Metal attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 30 printed damage rather than 60.
Tinkatuff30 damage30 damage becomes 60 against this card
Alolan Sandshrew 2860 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 775 cards in the archive that can remove Alolan Sandshrew 28 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 30 printed damage against a bar of 30. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH163) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH164) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH165) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian V-UNION (SWSH166) | SWSH Black Star Promos | 320 | 340 | 680 |
| Zacian VSTAR (96) | Crown Zenith | 270 | 310 | 620 |
| Aggron VMAX (97) | Brilliant Stars | 330 | 270 | 540 |
60 HP against a Metal ×2 weakness means any Metal attack printed at 30 damage or more is enough. 786 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Back to summaryWhat is Alolan Sandshrew as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Alolan Sandshrew 28 is one print of Alolan Sandshrew. 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 Alolan Sandshrew 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 summaryWhat has to be in play before Alolan Sandshrew 28 can be?
Alolan Sandshrew evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- It is not the end of the line either — Sandslash evolves from this card, so a deck can keep going past it.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn before this one can be.
- Every print in the line shares Pokédex number 027.
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.
Is this the strongest Alolan Sandshrew print, and can the older ones still be played?
5 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alolan Sandshrew 004/012 | McDonald's Promos 2019 | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Sandshrew 019a/145 | Alternate Art Promos | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Sandshrew 19/145 | SM Trainer Kit: Alolan Sandslash & Alolan Ninetales | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Sandshrew 137/236 | SM - Cosmic Eclipse | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Alolan Sandshrew 28/156 | SM - Ultra Prism | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
0 of the 5 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 Alolan Sandshrew 28?
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.
50
Sandshrew [74]
40
Sandshrew [62]
40
Sandshrew [92]
60
Sandshrew [79]
50
Brock's Sandshrew [72]
50
Sandshrew [75]
70
Sandshrew [78]
50
Sandshrew [124]
60
Sandshrew [96]
60
Alolan Sandshrew [19a]
50
Sandshrew [82]
40
Brock's Sandshrew [71]
60
Sandshrew [75]
60
Alolan Sandshrew [137]
60
Sandshrew [131]
60
Alolan Sandshrew [19]
40
Sandshrew [91]
40
Sandshrew [91]
70
Sandshrew [83]
60
Sandshrew [54]
70
Sandshrew [68]
60
Sandshrew [27]
60
Sandshrew [97]
24 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number (#027). 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 Alolan Sandshrew 28 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.
80
Monferno [22]
130
Infernape [23]
90
Heat Rotom [24]
70
Salandit [25]
110
Salazzle [26]
130
Turtonator [27]
120
Alolan Sandslash [29]
60
Alolan Vulpix [30]
60
Piplup [31]
70
Piplup [32]
90
Prinplup [33]
160
Empoleon [34]
These are the cards numbered either side of #28 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.
Which rules apply to Alolan Sandshrew 28, 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% |
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 | Not listed | This card is not listed for 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 Unlimited and Expanded play. It was released on February 2, 2018.
Alolan Sandshrew 28 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 Metal attack printed at 30 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 60 HP.
- 786 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Alolan Sandshrew 28 card record
| Hit points | 60 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Metal ×2 | Retreat cost | 1 Energy |
| Card type | Basic | Pokédex number | #027 |
| Set | Ultra Prism | Card number | 28 of 156 |
| Series | Sun & Moon | Released | February 2, 2018 |
| Rarity | Common | Illustrator | Shin Nagasawa |
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Expanded only | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Alolan Sandshrew 28 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Alolan Sandshrew 28 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Alolan Sandshrew 28?
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What is the retreat cost of Alolan Sandshrew 28?
What does the × after the damage on Fury Swipes mean?
Can an older Alolan Sandshrew print be played in a tournament?
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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.