Blastoise-GX SM189 — what does this card actually do?

Name: Blastoise-GX SM189
Brand: Pokémon
Author: sadaji

This card has 240 HP, a top attack printed at 60 damage and a Grass weakness.

Water · Stage 2 GX · SM Black Star Promos · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Blastoise-GX SM189 do in a game?

Blastoise-GX SM189 is a Water Pokémon card with 240 HP, printed as Stage 2 GX.

Its strongest attack, Rocket Splash, is printed at 60 damage for 2 Energy — 30 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Water Stage 2 GX Promo Unlimited and Expanded #009 Blastoise-GX

Blastoise-GX SM189SM Black Star Promos

240 HP · Water · Stage 2 GX · retreat 3 · Grass weakness ×2

Top printed damage6030 per Energy Rocket Splash60 damage for 2 Energy
as of July 28, 2026

Hit points240 HP3.3% of 17,290 in the 240~280 band

Printed damage6022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band

Retreat cost3 Energy12.6% of 17,240 in the 3 band

Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 30 · typical 49.0
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1

Price trackPromoSM Black Star Promosranked among GX cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it

Card classStage 2 GX

RarityPromo

SetSM Black Star Promos

Card numberSM189

AbilitySolid Shell

Card data readJuly 28, 2026

What it sells for now$21.81Opens the price page — daily prices, every print variant, where to buy · read August 14, 2026 Removed in one hit by120 damage240 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness Turns of setup2 turnsEnergy attaches once a turn, so the top attack waits that long Cards that can do it234 cardsCounted across the whole card archive Cards in the same line38 moreEvery print carrying Pokédex #009 Where it can be playedUnlimited and ExpandedRead from the official format list

How Blastoise-GX SM189 is built, on five measures

Strongest on Attack cost lightness — top 1.8% of the archive. Weakest on Retreat lightness — bottom 16.8%.

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 Blastoise-GX SM189 is built, on five measures
Measure	Percentile	Printed value
Hit points	93.8%	240 HP
Top printed damage	57.4%	60 damage
Energy efficiency	67.1%	30 per Energy
Retreat lightness	16.8%	3 Energy
Attack cost lightness	98.2%	1 Energy

What it can do

Attack record

2ERocket Splash30 damage per Energy card · has printed text60damage
1EGiant Geyser-GXhas printed text—

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

Where it stands

No. 978of 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 978 at 240 HP.

Water cardsNo. 115of 2,435 by printed HP GX cardsNo. 156of 601 by printed HP

This cardBlastoise-GX SM189SM Black Star Promos240 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 140 HP above this card.

Highest printed HPMega Emboar ex 273Ascended Heroes380 HP

What stands out on Blastoise-GX SM189

Hit points 240 HP puts it in the 240~280 band, where 3.3% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
Energy It returns 30 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
Weakness A Grass attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Blastoise-GX SM189 at a glance

What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 240 HP printed as Stage 2 GX, printed in SM Black Star Promos.
What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 60 damage for 2 Energy.
What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 120 printed damage is enough to remove it.
What it costs to move. 3 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 Blastoise-GX SM189 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 2 Energy and returns 60 damage, which is 30 damage for every Energy card attached.

Blastoise-GX SM189 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
Attack	Energy cost	Cards of Energy	Printed damage	Damage per Energy	Effect
Rocket Splash	2 Water	2	60×	30	Shuffle any amount of Water Energy from your Pokémon into your deck. This attack does 60 damage for each card you shuffled into your deck in this way.
Giant Geyser-GX	1 Water	1	—	—	Attach any number of Water Energy cards from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Rocket Splash2 Energy cards

Giant Geyser-GX1 Energy card

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.

Rocket Splash 2 Energy60 damage for 2 Energy — 30 per Energy card60

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (60).

Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol

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

Rocket Splash is printed as 60×, so the printed number is multiplied — the attack deals that much for each thing the sentence beside it counts.

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How does Blastoise-GX SM189 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.

Blastoise-GX SM189 — SM Black Star Promos — Blastoise-GXSM Black Star Promos SM189

No.978by HP in the archive

Blastoise-GX SM189 prints 240 HP, which puts it at number 978 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).

57% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

Top 6%Where it sits on printed HP

This card240 HP
Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
Strongest GX card300 HP

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

This card prints 240 HP, which is 63% 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

130~18015.5%2,679 cards

190~2306.6%1,148 cards

240~280 — this card3.3%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 240 HP.

Cards in the 240~280 band typically print 158 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
~70	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 — this card	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 60.

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

1 — this card54.4%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 1 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically have 93 HP and print 49 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0	1.8%	304 cards
1 — this card	54.4%	9,392 cards
2	26.4%	4,565 cards
3	14.7%	2,533 cards
4	2.4%	421 cards
5	0.3%	47 cards

Retreat cost — where this card sits

05.3%914 cards

149.3%8,503 cards

228.6%4,926 cards

3 — this card12.6%2,168 cards

44.2%729 cards

17,240 cards carry a retreat cost. This one costs 3 Energy to retreat.

Cards with a retreat cost of 3 typically have 150 HP and print 99 damage.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
Group	Share	Value
0	5.3%	914 cards
1	49.3%	8,503 cards
2	28.6%	4,926 cards
3 — this card	12.6%	2,168 cards
4	4.2%	729 cards

No. 115of 2,435

That is where Blastoise-GX SM189 stands highest on HP — number 115 of 2,435 cards in Water cards. 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. 978 of 17,290 by HP · No. 5,743 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380

top 35% on damage
Water cards — 2,435 cards No. 115 of 2,435 by HP · No. 735 of 2,316 by damage · top by HP: Wailord ex, 380

top 32% on damage
GX cards — 601 cards No. 156 of 601 by HP · No. 487 of 594 by damage · top by HP: Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300

top 82% on damage
SM Black Star Promos — 251 cards No. 27 of 247 by HP · No. 160 of 238 by damage · top by HP: Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300

top 67% 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 240 HP~~middle half 60–130 HP~~
this card 240
Top printed damage 60 damage~~middle half 20–90 damage~~
this card 60

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 GX

601 on record

Cards in the same HP band

567 of 17,290 (3.3%)

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 Blastoise-GX SM189 does without attacking

Blastoise-GX SM189 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.

Printed effects

Capped at once a turn

None

Read from the printed text quoted below, not counted anywhere else.

Solid Shell — Ability

This Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

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.

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Is Blastoise-GX SM189 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 60 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

Blastoise-GX SM189 — this card30.060 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 1 typically return 49.0 damage per Energy card. This card returns 30.

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
Blastoise-GX SM189 — this card	30.0	60 damage for 2 Energy

2501250 damage

012345 Energy

Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsRocket Splash 60 / 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 Blastoise-GX SM189.
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
Rocket Splash	—	30	—

This card, per Energy card

30 damage

Typical for a 1 Energy attack

49.0 damage

Difference

-19.0 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 60 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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Is Blastoise-GX SM189 strong for a GX card?

GX cards are built large to begin with, so measuring this one against the whole archive mixes up what the mechanic gives it with what the card itself gives it. Measured inside its own group, the two come apart.

Hit points240 HPtypical for the group is 214 HP — this card is 12% above

Top printed damage60 damagetypical for the group is 133 damage — this card is 55% below

Retreat cost3 Energytypical for the group is 2 Energy — this card is 50% above

The group is every GX card in the archive — 601 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.

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What does being a Water card do for Blastoise-GX SM189?

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 2,387 Grass cards carry that type A Grass attack printed at 120 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.

Blastoise-GX SM189 · Stage 2 GX 240 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 60 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 Grass

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 Grass.

Every energy type in the archive

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What knocks out Blastoise-GX SM189 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Grass attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 120 printed damage rather than 240.

Cards that remove it in one attack

234

Cards it removes in one attack

1,154

Grass damage needed to knock it out

120

Counted across the whole card archive. 240 HP against a Grass weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.

Removes it in one attackTangrowthMega Evolution 7120 damage

×2Grass weakness · 120 printed damage is enough
120 damage becomes 240 against this card

This cardBlastoise-GX SM189SM Black Star Promos SM189240 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 234 cards in the archive that can remove Blastoise-GX SM189 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 120 printed damage against a bar of 120. 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.

Blastoise-GXweak to Grass ×2

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

Grass cards that remove Blastoise-GX in one attack
Card	Set	HP	Printed damage	After weakness
Flapple VMAX (19)	Battle Styles	320	250	500
Flapple VMAX (164)	Battle Styles	320	250	500
Mega Venusaur ex (3)	Mega Evolution	380	240	480
Mega Venusaur ex (155)	Mega Evolution	380	240	480
Mega Venusaur ex (177)	Mega Evolution	380	240	480
Decidueye ex (12)	Perfect Order	320	240	480

240 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 120 damage or more is enough. 234 cards in the archive clear that bar.

120 HP Charizard [4]

120 HP Charizard [3]

120 HP Darmanitan [25]

120 HP Moltres [22]

120 HP Excadrill [57]

120 HP Arcanine [13]

Cards this one removes in a single attack

1,154 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 has to be in play before Blastoise-GX SM189 can be?

Blastoise-GX evolves from Wartortle, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.

The Blastoise-GX line, oldest stage firstPokédex #009

No imageSquirtle20 prints on record · Base Set (Shadowless)

+30 HP · +30 damage

Wartortle15 prints on record · Base Set (Shadowless)

Squirtle → Wartortle

This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Wartortle.
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 009.

1SquirtleNo imageSquirtleHardest attack printed at this stage: 40 damage70 HP
2WartortleHardest attack printed at this stage: 70 damage. Evolving here adds 30 HP over the stage before it100 HP

Bars are the highest HP ever printed on that stage, measured against the top of this line (100 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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What can you use instead of Blastoise-GX SM189?

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 Blastoise-GX SM189
Card	Set	HP	Top damage	Retreat
Blastoise & Piplup-GX	Cosmic Eclipse	270	150	3
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX	Unified Minds	250	40	2
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX	Unified Minds	250	40	2
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX	Unified Minds	250	40	2
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX	Unified Minds	250	40	2
Blastoise & Piplup-GX	Cosmic Eclipse	270	150	3

This card itself is 240 HP, 60 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Water 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 Blastoise-GX SM189 in SM Black Star Promos?

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.

70 Pikachu [SM183]

50 Eevee [SM184]

150 Typhlosion [SM185]

110 Flareon [SM186]

Alolan Marowak-GX SM187 — SM Black Star Promos

200 Alolan Marowak-GX [SM187]

Kangaskhan-GX SM188 — SM Black Star Promos

180 Kangaskhan-GX [SM188]

Detective Pikachu SM190 — SM Black Star Promos

90 Detective Pikachu [SM190]

Mewtwo & Mew-GX SM191 — SM Black Star Promos

270 Mewtwo & Mew-GX [SM191]

Lucario & Melmetal-GX SM192 — SM Black Star Promos

260 Lucario & Melmetal-GX [SM192]

Garchomp & Giratina-GX SM193 — SM Black Star Promos

270 Garchomp & Giratina-GX [SM193]

Detective Pikachu SM194 — SM Black Star Promos

90 Detective Pikachu [SM194]

Charizard-GX SM195 — SM Black Star Promos

250 Charizard-GX [SM195]

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #SM189 in SM Black Star Promos. 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 Blastoise-GX SM189, 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

“Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.”

Prize cards your opponent takes when it is knocked out

Every knockout carries the opponent 2 steps closer to winning, and that is the cost of putting this card on the field whatever it cost to buy.

Rulebook clauses that apply to Blastoise-GX SM189
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.

Blastoise-GX SM189 — tournament formats
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 3, 2017.

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Blastoise-GX SM189 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, Rocket Splash, needs 2 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 2 turns from an empty card.
That works out at 30 damage for every Energy card attached.
Moving it out of the active spot costs 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
It cannot start the game in play — Wartortle has to be on the field first.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 978 of 17,290

Water cardsNo. 115 of 2,435

GX cardsNo. 156 of 601

SM Black Star PromosNo. 27 of 247

What actually removes it

A Grass attack printed at 120 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 240 HP.
234 cards in the archive clear that bar.
Going the other way, it removes 1,154 cards in one attack.

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Blastoise-GX SM189 card record

Blastoise-GX SM189 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points	240 HP	Type	Water
Weakness	Grass ×2	Retreat cost	3 Energy
Evolves from	Wartortle	Card type	Stage 2 GX
Pokédex number	#009	Set	SM Black Star Promos
Card number	SM189 of 248	Series	Sun & Moon
Released	February 3, 2017	Rarity	Promo
Illustrator	sadaji
Tournament legality	Unlimited and Expanded only
Printed rule	Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

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

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What does Blastoise-GX SM189 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

$21.81

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

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Blastoise-GX SM189 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Blastoise-GX SM189?

Blastoise-GX SM189 has 240 HP and a Grass weakness at ×2, so a Grass attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 240.

What is the strongest attack on Blastoise-GX SM189?

Rocket Splash, printed at 60 damage for 2 Energy — 30 damage per Energy card. Shuffle any amount of Water Energy from your Pokémon into your deck. This attack does 60 damage for each card you shuffled into your deck in this way.

What is the retreat cost of Blastoise-GX SM189?

3 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 Rocket Splash mean?

It marks the damage as conditional: the printed figure is dealt once for each thing the sentence on the card counts. The full sentence is printed on the card and quoted in the attack table on this page — "Shuffle any amount of Water Energy from your Pokémon into your deck. This attack does 60 damage for each card you shuffled into your deck in this way."

What does Blastoise-GX evolve from?

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

Can Blastoise-GX SM189 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.

What does the rule on Blastoise-GX SM189 mean?

The card reads “Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Blastoise-GX SM189 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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Blastoise-GX SM189 — what does this card actually do?

What does Blastoise-GX SM189 do in a game?

Blastoise-GX SM189 performance summary

What it can do

Where it stands

Blastoise-GX SM189 at a glance

What do the attacks on Blastoise-GX SM189 cost, and what do they hit for?

How does Blastoise-GX SM189 compare with every other card?

What Blastoise-GX SM189 does without attacking

Is Blastoise-GX SM189 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Is Blastoise-GX SM189 strong for a GX card?

What does being a Water card do for Blastoise-GX SM189?

What knocks out Blastoise-GX SM189 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

What has to be in play before Blastoise-GX SM189 can be?

What can you use instead of Blastoise-GX SM189?

Which other cards share the Pokémon behind Blastoise-GX SM189?

What was printed next to Blastoise-GX SM189 in SM Black Star Promos?

Which rules apply to Blastoise-GX SM189, and where can it be played?

Blastoise-GX SM189 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

Blastoise-GX SM189 card record

What does Blastoise-GX SM189 cost?

Blastoise-GX SM189 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Blastoise-GX SM189?

What is the strongest attack on Blastoise-GX SM189?

What is the retreat cost of Blastoise-GX SM189?

What does the × after the damage on Rocket Splash mean?

What does Blastoise-GX evolve from?

Can Blastoise-GX SM189 be played in a tournament?

What does the rule on Blastoise-GX SM189 mean?

Does this page say how good Blastoise-GX SM189 is in a deck?

Where these card facts come from

Before you rely on these figures

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