Vespiquen ex 212 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 270 HP, a top attack printed at 200 damage and a Darkness weakness.
Psychic · Stage 1 ex Tera · Obsidian Flames · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Vespiquen ex 212 do in a game?
Vespiquen ex 212 is a Psychic Pokémon card with 270 HP, printed as Stage 1 ex Tera.
Its strongest attack, Phantom Queen, is printed at 200 damage for 3 Energy — 67 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Darkness weakness, any Darkness attack printed at 135 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Vespiquen ex 212Obsidian Flames
Vespiquen ex 212 performance summary
270 HP · Psychic · Stage 1 ex Tera · retreat 2 · Darkness 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 45.3%.
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 | 95.9% | 200 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 96.0% | 67 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 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.
Vespiquen ex 212270 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 110 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Vespiquen ex 212
- 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 67 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
- Weakness A Darkness attack printed at 135 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 4 of the 12 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Vespiquen ex 212 at a glance
- What it is. A Psychic Pokémon card with 270 HP printed as Stage 1 ex Tera, printed in Obsidian Flames.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 200 damage for 3 Energy.
- What it fears. A Darkness weakness at ×2, which means 135 printed damage is enough to remove it.
- What it costs to move. 2 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.
What do the attacks on Vespiquen ex 212 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 2 attacks. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 200 damage, which is 67 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healing Pheromone | 1 Grass | 1 | — | — | Heal 60 damage from 1 of your Pokémon. |
| Phantom Queen | 3 Grass | 3 | 200 | 67 | Put 3 damage counters on each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon that has any damage counters on it. |
Retreating costs a further 2 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.
This card places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage
Phantom Queen 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.
How does Vespiquen ex 212 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 200.
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 2 Energy to retreat.
Cards with a retreat cost of 2 typically have 132 HP and print 79 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5.3% | 914 cards |
| 1 | 49.3% | 8,503 cards |
| 2 — this card | 28.6% | 4,926 cards |
| 3 | 12.6% | 2,168 cards |
| 4 | 4.2% | 729 cards |
That is where Vespiquen ex 212 stands highest on HP — number 71 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.
- Hit points 270 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 200 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 Vespiquen ex 212 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 200 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 67.
| 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 |
| Vespiquen ex 212 — this card | 67.0 | 200 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 |
| Phantom Queen | — | 67 | — |
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 200 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
Is Vespiquen ex 212 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 Psychic card do for Vespiquen ex 212?
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 — this card | 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 | 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 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 Darkness.
What knocks out Vespiquen ex 212 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Darkness attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 135 printed damage rather than 270.
Krookodile ex140 damage140 damage becomes 280 against this card
Vespiquen ex 212270 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 155 cards in the archive that can remove Vespiquen ex 212 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 two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.
What the Fighting resistance changes
Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack printed high enough to knock this card out on paper may not do it. Resistance is a flat subtraction, not a multiplier — it does not scale with the attack.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (126) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (225) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (226) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 500 |
| Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX (245) | Unified Minds | 280 | 250 | 500 |
| Drapion VSTAR (119) | Lost Origin | 270 | 250 | 500 |
| Drapion VSTAR (200) | Lost Origin | 270 | 250 | 500 |
270 HP against a Darkness ×2 weakness means any Darkness attack printed at 135 damage or more is enough. 155 cards in the archive clear that bar.
350 HP
Mega Gallade ex [48]
340 HP
Mega Lucario ex [77]
340 HP
Mega Lucario ex [160]
340 HP
Mega Lucario ex [179]
340 HP
Mega Lucario ex [188]
340 HP
Mega Lucario ex [113]
1,822 cards in the archive are weak to Psychic 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 Vespiquen as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Vespiquen ex 212 is one print of Vespiquen. 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 Vespiquen 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 Vespiquen ex 212 can be?
Vespiquen ex evolves from Combee, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- This card cannot be played from your hand onto an empty spot — it goes on top of Combee.
- The line runs 3 stages, so the first card has to be in play 2 turns before this one can be.
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 Vespiquen print, and can the older ones still be played?
12 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vespiquen ex 212/197 | SV03: Obsidian Flames | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen ex 096/197 | SV03: Obsidian Flames | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 32/214 | SM - Lost Thunder | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 009/193 | SV02: Paldea Evolved | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 012/189 | SWSH10: Astral Radiance | Mark F | Legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 23/90 | Undaunted | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 39/130 | Diamond and Pearl | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 31/100 | Stormfront | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 5/135 | Plasma Storm | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 11/98 | XY - Ancient Origins | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen 10/98 | XY - Ancient Origins | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
| Vespiquen E4 35/111 | Rising Rivals | No mark printed | Not legal in Standard |
4 of the 12 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 Vespiquen ex 212?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sylveon ex | Prismatic Evolutions | 270 | 160 | 2 |
| Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex | Destined Rivals | 280 | 160 | 3 |
| Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex | Ascended Heroes | 280 | 160 | 3 |
| Espeon ex | Prismatic Evolutions | 270 | 160 | 1 |
| Gardevoir ex | Paldean Fates | 310 | 190 | 2 |
| Gardevoir ex | Scarlet & Violet | 310 | 190 | 2 |
This card itself is 270 HP, 200 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Psychic like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Vespiquen ex 212?
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.
100
Vespiquen [23]
100
Vespiquen [39]
100
Vespiquen [31]
90
Vespiquen [11]
100
Vespiquen [5]
120
Vespiquen [32]
270
Vespiquen ex [96]
90
Vespiquen [10]
120
Vespiquen [9]
120
Vespiquen [12]
11 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 Vespiquen ex 212 in Obsidian Flames?
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.
60
Varoom [206]
60
Pidgey [207]
90
Pidgeotto [208]
60
Lechonk [209]
210
Eiscue ex [210]
340
Tyranitar ex [211]
270
Glimmora ex [213]
210
Absol ex [214]
330
Charizard ex [215]
280
Revavroom ex [216]
280
Pidgeot ex [217]
Geeta [218]
These are the cards numbered either side of #212 in Obsidian Flames. 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 Vespiquen ex 212, 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. Tera: As long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks (both yours and your opponent's).”
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 G, printed next to the card number. It was released on August 11, 2023.
Which generation of cards does Vespiquen ex 212 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 — this card | 19.9% | 1,634 cards |
| Mark H | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Vespiquen ex 212 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, Phantom Queen, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
- That works out at 67 damage for every Energy card attached.
- Moving it out of the active spot costs 2 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
- It cannot start the game in play — Combee has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Darkness attack printed at 135 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 270 HP.
- 155 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,822 cards in one attack.
- Damage from Fighting attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
Vespiquen ex 212 card record
| Hit points | 270 HP | Type | Psychic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Darkness ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Evolves from | Combee | Card type | Stage 1 ex Tera |
| Regulation mark | Mark G | Pokédex number | #416 |
| Set | Obsidian Flames | Card number | 212 of 197 |
| Series | Scarlet & Violet | Released | August 11, 2023 |
| Rarity | Ultra Rare (UR) | Illustrator | 5ban Graphics |
| 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. Tera: As long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks (both yours and your opponent's). | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Vespiquen ex 212 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Vespiquen ex 212 — frequently asked questions
How much damage does it take to knock out Vespiquen ex 212?
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What is the retreat cost of Vespiquen ex 212?
Does Vespiquen ex 212 deal damage or place damage counters?
Can an older Vespiquen print be played in a tournament?
What does Vespiquen ex evolve from?
Can Vespiquen ex 212 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.
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