Iron Boulder ex 217 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 240 HP, a top attack printed at 200 damage and a Grass weakness.
Fighting · Basic ex Future · Temporal Forces · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Iron Boulder ex 217 do in a game?
Iron Boulder ex 217 is a Fighting Pokémon card with 240 HP, printed as Basic ex Future.
Its strongest attack, Power Stomp, is printed at 200 damage for 3 Energy — 67 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Grass weakness, any Grass attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Iron Boulder ex 217Temporal Forces
Iron Boulder ex 217 performance summary
240 HP · Fighting · Basic ex Future · retreat 3 · Grass weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 2
Strongest on Energy efficiency — top 4.0% 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 | 93.8% | 240 HP |
| Top printed damage | 95.9% | 200 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 96.0% | 67 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 16.8% | 3 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 43.8% | 2 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 978 at 240 HP.
Iron Boulder ex 217240 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 140 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Iron Boulder ex 217
- 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 67 damage per Energy card against 32.5 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 2.
- Weakness A Grass attack printed at 120 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 7 of the 7 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Iron Boulder ex 217 at a glance
- What it is. A Fighting Pokémon card with 240 HP printed as Basic ex Future, printed in Temporal Forces.
- What it can do. 2 attacks printed on the card, the strongest at 200 damage for 3 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 Standard and Expanded only, and it carries regulation mark H.
- 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repulsor Axe | 1 Fighting + 1 Colorless | 2 | 60 | 30 | During your opponent's next turn, if this Pokémon is damaged by an attack (even if it is Knocked Out), put 8 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon. |
| Power Stomp | 2 Fighting + 1 Colorless | 3 | 200 | 67 | Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. |
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.
This card places damage counters, which is not the same as dealing damage
Repulsor Axe 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 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 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.
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.
| 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 2 Energy.
Cards whose cheapest attack costs 2 typically have 116 HP and print 65 damage.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.8% | 304 cards |
| 1 | 54.4% | 9,392 cards |
| 2 — this card | 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 stands highest on HP — number 89 of 1,884 cards in Fighting cards. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 240 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 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 2 typically return 32.5 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 |
| Iron Boulder ex 217 — 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 |
| Repulsor Axe | — | 30 | — |
| Power Stomp | — | 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 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 Fighting card do for Iron Boulder ex 217?
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 — this card | 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 Fighting weakness.
What being a Fighting card is worth
Groups that most often print a Fighting weakness: Colorless (2,173 cards), Lightning (1,520 cards) and Darkness (1,249 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Fighting cards are themselves most exposed to Grass.
What knocks out Iron Boulder ex 217 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.
Tangrowth120 damage120 damage becomes 240 against this card
Iron Boulder ex 217240 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 234 cards in the archive that can remove Iron Boulder ex 217 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.
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 |
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.
350 HP
Mega Gengar ex [56]
350 HP
Mega Eelektross ex [61]
350 HP
Mega Gengar ex [125]
350 HP
Mega Eelektross ex [266]
350 HP
Mega Gengar ex [269]
350 HP
Mega Eelektross ex [278]
3,471 cards in the archive are weak to Fighting 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 Iron Boulder as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Iron Boulder ex 217 is one print of Iron Boulder. 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 Iron Boulder 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 can be?
Iron Boulder ex evolves from an earlier stage, so the whole line has to be built before this card reaches the field.
- The line runs 2 stages, so the first card has to be in play 1 turn 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 Iron Boulder print, and can the older ones still be played?
7 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Boulder ex 207/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Iron Boulder ex 217/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Iron Boulder ex 192/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Iron Boulder ex 099/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Iron Boulder ex 147 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Iron Boulder 046/131 | SV: Prismatic Evolutions | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Iron Boulder 071/142 | Prize Pack Series Cards | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
7 of the 7 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 Iron Boulder ex 217?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Hawlucha ex | Ascended Heroes | 250 | 120 | 1 |
| Sandy Shocks ex | Prismatic Evolutions | 220 | 200 | 2 |
| Iron Boulder ex | Temporal Forces | 240 | 200 | 3 |
| Excadrill ex | Black Bolt | 270 | 200 | 3 |
| Koraidon ex | Scarlet & Violet | 230 | 220 | 2 |
| Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex | Twilight Masquerade | 210 | 140 | 1 |
This card itself is 240 HP, 200 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Fighting like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Iron Boulder ex 217?
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.
4 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 Iron Boulder ex 217 in Temporal Forces?
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.
Morty's Conviction [211]
Salvatore [212]
220
Iron Leaves ex [213]
230
Gouging Fire ex [214]
220
Walking Wake ex [215]
220
Iron Crown ex [216]
240
Raging Bolt ex [218]
These are the cards numbered either side of #217 in Temporal Forces. 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 Iron Boulder ex 217, 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 H, printed next to the card number. It was released on March 22, 2024.
Which generation of cards does Iron Boulder ex 217 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 — this card | 15.7% | 1,283 cards |
| Mark I | 14.8% | 1,215 cards |
| Mark J | 5.1% | 419 cards |
Iron Boulder ex 217 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, Power Stomp, 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 3 more Energy, discarded from the card itself.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
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 3,471 cards in one attack.
Iron Boulder ex 217 card record
| Hit points | 240 HP | Type | Fighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Grass ×2 | Retreat cost | 3 Energy |
| Card type | Basic ex Future | Regulation mark | Mark H |
| Pokédex number | #1022 | Set | Temporal Forces |
| Card number | 217 of 162 | Series | Scarlet & Violet |
| Released | March 22, 2024 | Rarity | Hyper Rare (HR) |
| 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. | ||
Read from the printed card face, the set listing and the official format list.
What does Iron Boulder ex 217 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Iron Boulder ex 217 — frequently asked questions
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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
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