Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 270 HP, a top attack printed at 210 damage and a Grass weakness.
Darkness · Stage 1 ex · Destined Rivals · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 do in a game?
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 is a Darkness Pokémon card with 270 HP, printed as Stage 1 ex.
Its strongest attack, Boss Headbutt, is printed at 210 damage for 3 Energy — 70 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 135 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218Destined Rivals
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 performance summary
270 HP · Darkness · Stage 1 ex · retreat 3 · Grass weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
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.
| Measure | Percentile | Printed value |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points | 95.6% | 270 HP |
| Top printed damage | 97.2% | 210 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 97.0% | 70 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 Energy |
2 attacks 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 611 at 270 HP.
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218270 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 110 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218
- Hit points 270 HP puts it in the 240~280 band, where 3.3% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 70 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 135 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 3 of the 3 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 at a glance
- What it is. A Darkness Pokémon card with 270 HP printed as Stage 1 ex, printed in Destined Rivals.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 210 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Grass weakness at ×2, which means 135 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 Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark I.
- 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 Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 210 damage, which is 70 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vigorous Tackle | 1 Colorless | 1 | 30+ | 30 | If this Pokémon has no damage counters on it, this attack does 120 more damage. |
| Boss Headbutt | 3 Colorless | 3 | 210 | 70 | During your next turn, this Pokémon can't use Boss Headbutt. |
Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
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.
Why one of these damage figures carries a symbol
A number on a Pokémon card is not always the number that lands.
- Vigorous Tackle is printed as 30+, so the printed number is a floor — the attack deals at least that much, and the sentence beside it says what adds to it.
How does Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 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 270 HP, which is 71% 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 270 HP.
Cards in the 240~280 band typically print 158 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| 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 |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 210.
Cards in the 190~250 band typically have 238 HP and ask 2 Energy to retreat.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ~30 | 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 — this card | 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 1 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 1 typically have 93 HP and print 49 damage.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 |
That is where Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 stands highest on HP — number 611 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 270 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 210 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 summaryIs Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 210 damage attack that needs 3 Energy and one that needs two are different cards. Dividing one by the other puts every attack on the same scale.
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 70.
| 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 |
| Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 — this card | 70.0 | 210 damage for 3 Energy |
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.
| 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 |
| Vigorous Tackle | — | 30 | — |
| Boss Headbutt | — | 70 | — |
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 210 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
Is Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 strong for a ex card?
ex 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.
The group is every ex card in the archive — 942 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.
What does being a Darkness card do for Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218?
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 | 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 — this card | 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 Darkness weakness.
What being a Darkness card is worth
No group in the archive most often prints a Darkness weakness, so this type gains nothing automatic from the weakness rule. Going the other way, Darkness cards are themselves most exposed to Grass.
What knocks out Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 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 135 printed damage rather than 270.
Meganium140 damage140 damage becomes 280 against this card
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218270 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 134 cards in the archive that can remove Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 140 printed damage against a bar of 135. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
270 HP against a Grass ×2 weakness means any Grass attack printed at 135 damage or more is enough. 134 cards in the archive clear that bar.
360 HP
Mega Gardevoir ex [60]
360 HP
Mega Gardevoir ex [159]
360 HP
Mega Gardevoir ex [178]
360 HP
Mega Gardevoir ex [187]
360 HP
Mega Gardevoir ex [89]
350 HP
Mega Chandelure ex [38]
945 cards in the archive are weak to Darkness 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.
What is Arven's Mabosstiff as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 is one print of Arven's Mabosstiff. 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 Arven's Mabosstiff 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 summaryIs this the strongest Arven's Mabosstiff print, and can the older ones still be played?
3 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arven's Mabosstiff ex 235/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Arven's Mabosstiff ex 139/182 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
| Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218/182 | SV10: Destined Rivals | Mark I | Legal in Standard |
3 of the 3 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 summaryWhat can you use instead of Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218?
Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.
| Card | Set | HP | Top damage | Retreat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbreon ex | Prismatic Evolutions | 280 | 160 | 2 |
| Mega Darkrai ex | Pitch Black | 280 | 110 | 2 |
| Mega Darkrai ex | Pitch Black | 280 | 110 | 2 |
| Roaring Moon ex | Prismatic Evolutions | 230 | 100 | 2 |
| N's Zoroark ex | Ascended Heroes | 280 | 0 | 2 |
| Team Rocket's Crobat ex | Destined Rivals | 310 | 120 | 1 |
This card itself is 270 HP, 210 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Darkness like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218?
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.
270
Arven's Mabosstiff ex [235]
130
Mabosstiff [218]
130
Mabosstiff [188]
270
Arven's Mabosstiff ex [139]
130
Mabosstiff [137]
130
Mabosstiff [63]
140
Mabosstiff [143]
140
Mabosstiff [58]
8 cards in the archive share this Pokédex number. 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 Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 in Destined Rivals?
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.
280
Electivire ex [212]
280
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex [213]
230
Regirock ex [214]
330
Cynthia's Garchomp ex [215]
330
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex [216]
310
Team Rocket's Crobat ex [217]
260
Team Rocket's Persian ex [219]
Emcee's Hype [220]
Ethan's Adventure [221]
Judge [222]
Team Rocket's Archer [223]
Team Rocket's Ariana [224]
These are the cards numbered either side of #218 in Destined Rivals. 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 Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218, 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 ex rule: When your Pokémon ex 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.
| 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.
| Format | Status | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Legal | Can be played in 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 Standard and Expanded play. It carries regulation mark I, printed next to the card number. It was released on May 30, 2025.
Which generation of cards does Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 belong to?
The single letter printed beside the card number groups a card with everything issued under the same rules. Tournament formats are cut along those letters, so the size of a letter is the size of the pool a card sits in.
8,194 cards in the archive carry a regulation mark. Older prints carry none at all, so this is not the whole archive.
The regulation mark is the single letter recorded with each modern card. Older prints carry no mark at all, so this axis covers only the part of the archive that has one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Mark D | 15.4% | 1,261 cards |
| Mark E | 14.7% | 1,202 cards |
| Mark F | 14.4% | 1,180 cards |
| Mark G | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I — this card | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 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, Boss Headbutt, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 70 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 — Arven's Maschiff has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Grass attack printed at 135 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 270 HP.
- 134 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 945 cards in one attack.
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 card record
| Hit points | 270 HP | Type | Darkness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Evolves from | Arven's Maschiff | Card type | Stage 1 ex |
| Regulation mark | Mark I | Pokédex number | #943 |
| Set | Destined Rivals | Card number | 218 of 182 |
| Series | Scarlet & Violet | Released | May 30, 2025 |
| Rarity | Ultra Rare (UR) | ||
| Tournament legality | Unlimited and Standard and Expanded only | ||
| Printed rule | Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218?
What is the strongest attack on Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218?
What is the retreat cost of Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218?
What does the + after the damage on Vigorous Tackle mean?
Can an older Arven's Mabosstiff print be played in a tournament?
What does Arven's Mabosstiff ex evolve from?
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Does this page say how good Arven's Mabosstiff ex 218 is in a deck?
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
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