Palafin ex 151 — what does this card actually do?
This card has 340 HP, a top attack printed at 250 damage and a Lightning weakness.
Water · Stage 1 ex · Prismatic Evolutions · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026
What does Palafin ex 151 do in a game?
Palafin ex 151 is a Water Pokémon card with 340 HP, printed as Stage 1 ex.
Its strongest attack, Giga Impact, is printed at 250 damage for 1 Energy — 250 damage per Energy card.
Because of the Lightning weakness, any Lightning attack printed at 170 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
Palafin ex 151Prismatic Evolutions
Palafin ex 151 performance summary
340 HP · Water · Stage 1 ex · retreat 2 · Lightning weakness ×2
as of July 28, 2026
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 1
Strongest on Energy efficiency — top 0.1% 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 | 99.5% | 340 HP |
| Top printed damage | 98.9% | 250 damage |
| Energy efficiency | 100.0% | 250 per Energy |
| Retreat lightness | 45.3% | 2 Energy |
| Attack cost lightness | 98.2% | 1 Energy |
1 attack 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 45 at 340 HP.
Palafin ex 151340 HPPrinted HP
The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP — 40 HP above this card.
Mega Emboar ex 273380 HPWhat stands out on Palafin ex 151
- Hit points 340 HP puts it in the 340+ band, where 0.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
- Energy It returns 250 damage per Energy card against 49.0 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 1.
- Weakness A Lightning attack printed at 170 damage or more removes it in a single turn.
- Legality 11 of the 11 prints that carry this name are legal in Standard play.
Palafin ex 151 at a glance
- What it is. A Water Pokémon card with 340 HP printed as Stage 1 ex, printed in Prismatic Evolutions.
- What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 250 damage for 1 Energy.
- What it fears. A Lightning weakness at ×2, which means 170 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 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 Palafin ex 151 cost, and what do they hit for?
The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 1 Energy and returns 250 damage, which is 250 damage for every Energy card attached.
| Attack | Energy cost | Cards of Energy | Printed damage | Damage per Energy | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giga Impact | 1 Water | 1 | 250 | 250 | During your next turn, this Pokémon can't attack. |
Retreating costs a further 2 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.
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.
How does Palafin ex 151 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 340 HP, which is 90% 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 340 HP.
Cards in the 340+ band typically print 189 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 | 3.3% | 567 cards |
| 290~330 | 2.4% | 412 cards |
| 340+ — this card | 0.5% | 90 cards |
16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 250.
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 Palafin ex 151 stands highest on HP — number 1 of 123 cards in Prismatic Evolutions. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.
- Hit points 340 HP
middle half 60–130 HP - Top printed damage 250 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 summaryWhat Palafin ex 151 does without attacking
Palafin ex 151 carries 1 printed effect that work outside the attack step, so it can matter on a turn the card never attacks.
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.
Is Palafin ex 151 efficient for the Energy it asks for?
Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 250 damage attack that needs 1 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 250.
| 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 |
| Palafin ex 151 — this card | 250.0 | 250 damage for 1 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 |
| Giga Impact | — | 250 | — |
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 250 is read as high or low rather than merely large.
Is Palafin ex 151 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 Water card do for Palafin ex 151?
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 — 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 |
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 Lightning.
What knocks out Palafin ex 151 in one hit, and what does it knock out?
Weakness doubles the damage a Lightning attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 170 printed damage rather than 340.
Electivire170 damage170 damage becomes 340 against this card
Palafin ex 151340 HPWhy this card was picked to stand opposite
Of the 125 cards in the archive that can remove Palafin ex 151 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 170 printed damage against a bar of 170. Anything printed higher removes it just as surely, so this is where the line actually sits.
Read from the weakness printed in the lower-left corner of the card.
| Card | Set | HP | Printed damage | After weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu ex (57) | Ascended Heroes | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (277) | Ascended Heroes | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (57) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (219) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (238) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
| Pikachu ex (247) | Surging Sparks | 200 | 300 | 600 |
340 HP against a Lightning ×2 weakness means any Lightning attack printed at 170 damage or more is enough. 125 cards in the archive clear that bar.
380 HP
Mega Emboar ex [31]
380 HP
Mega Emboar ex [273]
360 HP
Mega Charizard X ex [13]
360 HP
Mega Charizard X ex [109]
360 HP
Mega Charizard X ex [125]
360 HP
Mega Charizard X ex [130]
1,702 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.
What is Palafin as a Pokémon, across every card it has been printed on?
Palafin ex 151 is one print of Palafin. 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 Palafin 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 Palafin ex 151 can be?
Palafin ex evolves from Finizen, 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 Finizen.
- 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 Palafin print, and can the older ones still be played?
13 prints carry this name in the archive, and 11 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.
| Set | Regulation mark | Standard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palafin ex 151/131 | SV: Prismatic Evolutions | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin ex 193/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin ex 061/167 | SV06: Twilight Masquerade | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 036 | SV: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 200/197 | SV03: Obsidian Flames | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 124/091 | SV: Paldean Fates | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 225/091 | SV: Paldean Fates | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 062/197 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark G | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 049/162 | SV05: Temporal Forces | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 022/084 | ME05: Pitch Black | Mark J | Legal in Standard |
| Palafin 060/167 | Miscellaneous Cards & Products | Mark H | Legal in Standard |
11 of the 11 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 Palafin ex 151?
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 Greninja ex | Chaos Rising | 350 | 120 | 1 |
| Mega Greninja ex | Chaos Rising | 350 | 120 | 1 |
| Mega Feraligatr ex | Ascended Heroes | 370 | 200 | 3 |
| Blastoise ex | 151 | 330 | 140 | 3 |
| Greninja ex | Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos | 300 | 120 | 1 |
| Kingdra ex | Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos | 310 | 50 | 1 |
This card itself is 340 HP, 250 top damage and 2 retreat, and every card here is Water like it.
Back to summaryWhich other cards share the Pokémon behind Palafin ex 151?
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.
150
Palafin [36]
150
Palafin [200]
150
Palafin [124]
150
Palafin [225]
340
Palafin ex [193]
340
Palafin ex [61]
100
Palafin [60]
150
Palafin [62]
150
Palafin [49]
150
Palafin [22]
10 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 Palafin ex 151 in Prismatic Evolutions?
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.
210
Teal Mask Ogerpon ex [145]
270
Flareon ex [146]
270
Ceruledge ex [147]
210
Hearthflame Mask Ogerpon ex [148]
280
Vaporeon ex [149]
270
Glaceon ex [150]
210
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex [152]
260
Jolteon ex [153]
230
Iron Hands ex [154]
270
Espeon ex [155]
270
Sylveon ex [156]
220
Iron Valiant ex [157]
These are the cards numbered either side of #151 in Prismatic Evolutions. 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 Palafin ex 151, 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 January 17, 2025.
Which generation of cards does Palafin ex 151 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 |
Palafin ex 151 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, Giga Impact, needs 1 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 1 turn from an empty card.
- That works out at 250 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 — Finizen has to be on the field first.
Where its HP stands, cut four ways
What actually removes it
- A Lightning attack printed at 170 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 340 HP.
- 125 cards in the archive clear that bar.
- Going the other way, it removes 1,702 cards in one attack.
Palafin ex 151 card record
| Hit points | 340 HP | Type | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Lightning ×2 | Retreat cost | 2 Energy |
| Evolves from | Finizen | Card type | Stage 1 ex |
| Regulation mark | Mark H | Pokédex number | #964 |
| Set | Prismatic Evolutions | Card number | 151 of 131 |
| Series | Scarlet & Violet | Released | January 17, 2025 |
| Rarity | Special Illustration Rare (SIR) | ||
| 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 Palafin ex 151 cost?
This page is about what the card does. The figure below is the one number worth carrying across, read on August 14, 2026.
Palafin ex 151 — 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
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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