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Mimikyu 97 — what does this card actually do?

This card has 70 HP and a Metal weakness.

Psychic · Basic · Paldea Evolved · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Mimikyu 97 do in a game?

Mimikyu 97 is a Psychic Pokémon card with 70 HP, printed as Basic.

Because of the Metal weakness, any Metal attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Mimikyu 97Paldea Evolved

Mimikyu 97 performance summary

70 HP · Psychic · Basic · retreat 1 · Metal weakness ×2

Hit points70 HP38.6% of 17,290 in the ~70 band
Retreat cost1 Energy49.3% of 17,240 in the 1 band
Price trackRarePaldea Evolved37 printsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classBasic
Regulation markG
RarityRare
SetPaldea Evolved
Card number97
AbilitySafeguard
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Mimikyu 97 is built, on three measures
Hit points70 HPRetreat lightness1 EnergyAttack cost lightness2 Energy

Strongest on Retreat lightness — top 5.6% of the archive. Weakest on Hit points — bottom 25.7%.

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 Mimikyu 97 is built, on three measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points25.7%70 HP
Retreat lightness94.4%1 Energy
Attack cost lightness43.8%2 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 2EGhost Eyehas printed text

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 10,622 at 70 HP.

This cardMimikyu 97 — Paldea EvolvedMimikyu 97Paldea Evolved70 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP310 HP above this card.

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

What stands out on Mimikyu 97

  • Hit points 70 HP puts it in the ~70 band, where 38.6% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
  • Weakness A Metal attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
  • Legality 10 of the 32 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.

Mimikyu 97 at a glance

  • What it is. A Psychic Pokémon card with 70 HP printed as Basic, printed in Paldea Evolved.
  • What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 0 damage for 0 Energy.
  • What it fears. A Metal weakness at ×2, which means 35 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 Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark G.
  • 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 Mimikyu 97 cost, and what do they hit for?

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

Mimikyu 97 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Ghost Eye1 Psychic + 1 Colorless2Put 7 damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon.

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

Ghost Eye2 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.

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

Ghost Eye puts damage counters on a Pokémon instead of dealing damage to it. The two look alike on the board — one counter is ten damage — but the rules treat them apart: anything that reduces or prevents damage does not stop counters from being placed, and weakness and resistance are not applied to them either.

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How does Mimikyu 97 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.

Mimikyu 97 — Paldea Evolved
MimikyuPaldea Evolved 97

Mimikyu 97 prints 70 HP, which puts it at number 10,622 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).

  • This card70 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
  • Strongest Mimikyu printed70 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 70 HP, which is 18% 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
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~18015.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards

17,290 cards in the archive carry a printed HP figure. This one has 70 HP.

Cards in the ~70 band typically print 23 damage and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~70 — this card38.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~18015.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards
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 Mimikyu 97 stands highest on HP — number 1,349 of 2,334 cards in Psychic cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.

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 70 HPmiddle half 60–130 HP
  • Lowest to highest printed in the archive
  • Middle half of the archive
  • This card

Each row is stretched from the lowest printed figure to the highest, so the two rows are not on one shared scale — read each row on its own.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.
Cards in the same HP band
6,669 of 17,290 (38.6%)
Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

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What Mimikyu 97 does without attacking

Mimikyu 97 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.
Safeguard — Ability
Prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from your opponent's Pokémon ex and Pokémon V.
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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What does being a Psychic card do for Mimikyu 97?

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 925 Metal cards carry that type A Metal attack printed at 35 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Mimikyu 97 · Basic 70 HP It prints no attack damage.
Takes double from this card 2,335 cards in groups that print a Psychic weakness Against Psychic, printed damage from this card counts double.
How the archive splits by energy type
Psychic — this cardmost 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
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
GroupShareValue
Psychic — this card13.5%2,335 cards
Water14.1%2,435 cards
Colorless12.6%2,173 cards
Fire9.1%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
Psychicweak to Metal
Psychicweak to Psychic

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

What being a Psychic card is worth

Groups that most often print a Psychic weakness: Psychic (2,335 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Psychic cards are themselves most exposed to Metal.

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What knocks out Mimikyu 97 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 35 printed damage rather than 70.

Cards that remove it in one attack
675
Metal damage needed to knock it out
35
Counted across the whole card archive. 70 HP against a Metal weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackBronzongBronzongPhantasmal Flames 7240 damage
×2Metal weakness · 35 printed damage is enough
40 damage becomes 80 against this card
This cardMimikyu 97Mimikyu 97Paldea Evolved 9770 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 667 cards in the archive that can remove Mimikyu 97 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 40 printed damage against a bar of 35. 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.

Mimikyuweak to Metal ×2

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

Metal cards that remove Mimikyu in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH163)SWSH Black Star Promos320340680
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH164)SWSH Black Star Promos320340680
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH165)SWSH Black Star Promos320340680
Zacian V-UNION (SWSH166)SWSH Black Star Promos320340680
Zacian VSTAR (96)Crown Zenith270310620
Aggron VMAX (97)Brilliant Stars330270540

70 HP against a Metal ×2 weakness means any Metal attack printed at 35 damage or more is enough. 675 cards in the archive clear that bar.

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

Mimikyu 97 is one print of Mimikyu. 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.

Mimikyu has been printed 37 times, and the printed numbers move from one print to the next. Point at a card to see it full size.Tap a card to open its page.
The three toughest Mimikyu cards ever printedPokédex #778Prints on record 37Toughest print 300 HPThis card 70 HP
37prints
Legal in Standard10Older prints, not in Standard27

Every Mimikyu 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 Mimikyu printed is 300 HP, and this card is 23.3% of it

Bars are printed HP, measured against the record for this Pokémon
  • Mimikyu VMAX TG17/TG30the toughest Mimikyu ever printedSWSH09: Brilliant Stars Trainer Gallery300 HP
  • Mimikyu 97against that record23.3% of the record70 HP

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

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

37 prints carry this name in the archive, and 32 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 (300 HP), and the highlighted row is the card this page is about.

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

Mimikyu prints — can each one still be played?
PrintSetRegulation markStandard
Mimikyu VMAX TG17/TG30SWSH09: Brilliant Stars Trainer GalleryMark ENot legal in Standard
Mimikyu VMAX 069/172SWSH09: Brilliant StarsMark ENot legal in Standard
Gengar & Mimikyu-GX 165/181SM - Team UpNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Gengar & Mimikyu-GX 186/181SM - Team UpNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Gengar & Mimikyu-GX 53/181SM - Team UpNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Gengar & Mimikyu-GX 164/181SM - Team UpNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu ex 069/159Miscellaneous Cards & ProductsMark HLegal in Standard
Mimikyu-GX 226/214SM - Lost ThunderNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu-GX 206/214SM - Lost ThunderNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu-GX 149/214SM - Lost ThunderNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu V TG16/TG30SWSH09: Brilliant Stars Trainer GalleryMark ENot legal in Standard
Mimikyu V 148/163SWSH05: Battle StylesMark ENot legal in Standard
Mimikyu V 068/172SWSH09: Brilliant StarsMark ENot legal in Standard
Mimikyu V 062/163SWSH05: Battle StylesMark ENot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 245/236SM - Cosmic EclipseNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 075SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo CardsMark GLegal in Standard
Mimikyu 160/091SV: Paldean FatesMark GLegal in Standard
Mimikyu SM163SM PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu SM99SM PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 97/236SM - Cosmic EclipseNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu SM29SM PromosNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 112/181SM - Team UpNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 96/236SM - Cosmic EclipseNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 58/145SM - Guardians RisingNo mark printedNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 097/193Prize Pack Series CardsMark GLegal in Standard
Mimikyu 081/189Miscellaneous Cards & ProductsMark DNot legal in Standard
Mimikyu 080/196SWSH11: Lost OriginMark FLegal in Standard
Mimikyu 037/091Trick or Trade BOOster Bundle 2024Mark GLegal in Standard
Mimikyu 042/094ME02: Phantasmal FlamesMark ILegal in Standard
Team Rocket's Mimikyu 087/182Miscellaneous Cards & ProductsMark ILegal in Standard
Team Rocket's Mimikyu 238/217ME: Ascended HeroesMark ILegal in Standard
Team Rocket's Mimikyu 097/217ME: Ascended HeroesMark ILegal in Standard

10 of the 32 prints listed here are legal in Standard play. An older print of the same Pokémon is a different card for legality, because legality is read from the print rather than from the name — so owning the cheap old copy does not always mean you can enter with it.

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Every card below carries the same Pokédex number as this one, so they are the same Pokémon printed as different cards — different stages, different mechanics and different names all sit in this group.

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What was printed next to Mimikyu 97 in Paldea Evolved?

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 #97 in Paldea Evolved. 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 Mimikyu 97, 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 Mimikyu 97
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.

Mimikyu 97 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardLegalCan be played in 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 Standard and Expanded play. It carries regulation mark G, printed next to the card number. It was released on June 9, 2023.

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Which generation of cards does Mimikyu 97 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.

Cards carrying each regulation mark
Mark Dtypically 133 HP · 84 damage15.4%1,261 cards
Mark Etypically 150 HP · 87 damage14.7%1,202 cards
Mark Ftypically 142 HP · 88 damage14.4%1,180 cards
Mark G — this cardtypically 124 HP · 80 damage19.9%1,634 cards
Mark Htypically 132 HP · 88 damage15.7%1,283 cards
Mark Itypically 134 HP · 80 damage14.8%1,215 cards
Mark Jtypically 148 HP · 86 damage5.1%419 cards

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.

Cards carrying each regulation mark
GroupShareValue
Mark D15.4%1,261 cards
Mark E14.7%1,202 cards
Mark F14.4%1,180 cards
Mark G — this card19.9%1,634 cards
Mark H15.7%1,283 cards
Mark I14.8%1,215 cards
Mark J5.1%419 cards
This card
Mark G
Cards sharing that mark
1,634
Typical HP for the mark
124 (this card 70)
Counted from the mark printed beside the card number.
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Mimikyu 97 in depth — what these figures add up to

Three readings of the same card, side by side: what it costs to get going, where it sits among the cards it will be compared with, and what takes it off the field.

Where its HP stands, cut four ways

Every card in the archiveNo. 10,622 of 17,290
Psychic cardsNo. 1,349 of 2,334
Paldea EvolvedNo. 158 of 238

What actually removes it

  • A Metal attack printed at 35 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 70 HP.
  • 675 cards in the archive clear that bar.
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Mimikyu 97 card record

Mimikyu 97 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points70 HPTypePsychic
WeaknessMetal ×2Retreat cost1 Energy
Card typeBasicRegulation markMark G
Pokédex number#778SetPaldea Evolved
Card number97 of 193SeriesScarlet & Violet
ReleasedJune 9, 2023RarityRare
IllustratorKagemaru Himeno
Tournament legalityUnlimited and Standard and Expanded only

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

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What does Mimikyu 97 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
$0.36
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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Mimikyu 97 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Mimikyu 97?

Mimikyu 97 has 70 HP and a Metal weakness at ×2, so a Metal attack printed at 35 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 70.

What is the retreat cost of Mimikyu 97?

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

Does Mimikyu 97 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 Mimikyu print be played in a tournament?

Legality is read from the print, not from the Pokémon. Of the 32 prints listed on this page, 10 are legal in Standard play. The rest can still be played in formats that accept them, and the table on this page names the regulation mark each print carries.

Can Mimikyu 97 be played in a tournament?

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

Does this page say how good Mimikyu 97 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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