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Aegislash-EX 65 — what does this card actually do?

This card has 170 HP, a top attack printed at 40 damage and a Fire weakness.

Metal · Basic EX · Phantom Forces · measured against 20,444 cards on file — card data read July 28, 2026

What does Aegislash-EX 65 do in a game?

Aegislash-EX 65 is a Metal Pokémon card with 170 HP, printed as Basic EX.

Its strongest attack, Slash Blast, is printed at 40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card.

Because of the Fire weakness, any Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Aegislash-EX 65Phantom Forces

Aegislash-EX 65 performance summary

170 HP · Metal · Basic EX · retreat 3 · Fire weakness ×2

Top printed damage4013 per Energy Slash Blast40 damage for 3 Energy
as of July 28, 2026
Hit points170 HP15.5% of 17,290 in the 130~180 band
Printed damage4022.0% of 16,246 in the 40~60 band
Retreat cost3 Energy12.6% of 17,240 in the 3 band
Energy efficiencyBelow typicalAboveTypicalBelowThis card 13 · typical 34.7
damage per Energy card, among cards whose cheapest attack costs 3
Price trackRare Holo EXPhantom Forcesranked among EX cardsWhat it costs today, how it moved, and where to buy it
Card classBasic EX
RarityRare Holo EX
SetPhantom Forces
Card number65
AbilityMighty Shield
Card data readJuly 28, 2026
How Aegislash-EX 65 is built, on five measures
Hit points170 HPTop printed damage40 damageEnergy efficiency13 per EnergyRetreat lightness3 EnergyAttack cost lightness3 Energy

Strongest on Hit points — top 16.7% 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.

How Aegislash-EX 65 is built, on five measures
MeasurePercentilePrinted value
Hit points83.3%170 HP
Top printed damage42.7%40 damage
Energy efficiency28.4%13 per Energy
Retreat lightness16.8%3 Energy
Attack cost lightness17.4%3 Energy

What it can do

Attack record
  • 3ESlash Blast13 damage per Energy card · has printed text40damage

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 2,568 at 170 HP.

This cardAegislash-EX 65 — Phantom ForcesAegislash-EX 65Phantom Forces170 HP

Printed HP

The ceiling of this archive is 380 HP210 HP above this card.

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

What stands out on Aegislash-EX 65

  • Hit points 170 HP puts it in the 130~180 band, where 15.5% of 17,290 cards with printed HP sit.
  • Energy It returns 13 damage per Energy card against 34.7 for cards whose cheapest attack costs 3.
  • Weakness A Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more removes it in a single turn.

Aegislash-EX 65 at a glance

  • What it is. A Metal Pokémon card with 170 HP printed as Basic EX, printed in Phantom Forces.
  • What it can do. 1 attack printed on the card, the strongest at 40 damage for 3 Energy.
  • What it fears. A Fire weakness at ×2, which means 85 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 Expanded only.
  • 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 Aegislash-EX 65 cost, and what do they hit for?

The card prints 1 attack. The strongest asks for 3 Energy and returns 40 damage, which is 13 damage for every Energy card attached.

Aegislash-EX 65 — every printed attack, its cost and its damage
AttackEnergy costCards of EnergyPrinted damageDamage per EnergyEffect
Slash Blast3 Colorless34013This attack does 20 more damage for each Metal Energy attached to this Pokémon.

Retreating costs a further 3 Energy, discarded from this card, and that cost is paid on top of anything in the table.

Slash Blast3 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.

  • Slash Blast 3 Energy40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 per Energy card40

Bars are printed damage against this card's own highest attack (40).

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How does Aegislash-EX 65 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.

Aegislash-EX 65 — Phantom Forces
Aegislash-EXPhantom Forces 65

Aegislash-EX 65 prints 170 HP, which puts it at number 2,568 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).

43% on printed damage — it out-hits that share of the 16,246 cards that print damage

  • This card170 HP
  • Middle half of the archive60–130 HP
  • Strongest EX card250 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 170 HP, which is 45% 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
~7038.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~180 — this card15.5%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 170 HP.

Cards in the 130~180 band typically print 104 damage and ask 2 Energy to retreat.

Hit points — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~7038.6%6,669 cards
80~12033.1%5,725 cards
130~180 — this card15.5%2,679 cards
190~2306.6%1,148 cards
240~2803.3%567 cards
290~3302.4%412 cards
340+0.5%90 cards
Top printed damage — where this card sits
~3042.7%6,938 cards
40~60 — this card22.0%3,566 cards
70~12021.8%3,535 cards
130~1809.0%1,461 cards
190~2503.8%621 cards
260+0.8%125 cards

16,246 cards print damage on at least one attack. The highest on this card is 40.

Cards in the 40~60 band typically have 101 HP and ask 1 Energy to retreat.

Top printed damage — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
~3042.7%6,938 cards
40~60 — this card22.0%3,566 cards
70~12021.8%3,535 cards
130~1809.0%1,461 cards
190~2503.8%621 cards
260+0.8%125 cards
Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
01.8%304 cards
154.4%9,392 cards
226.4%4,565 cards
3 — this card14.7%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 3 Energy.

Cards whose cheapest attack costs 3 typically have 153 HP and print 104 damage.

Cheapest attack cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
01.8%304 cards
154.4%9,392 cards
226.4%4,565 cards
3 — this card14.7%2,533 cards
42.4%421 cards
50.3%47 cards
Retreat cost — where this card sits
05.3%914 cards
149.3%8,503 cards
228.6%4,926 cards
3 — this card12.6%2,168 cards
44.2%729 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.

Retreat cost — where this card sits
GroupShareValue
05.3%914 cards
149.3%8,503 cards
228.6%4,926 cards
3 — this card12.6%2,168 cards
44.2%729 cards

That is where Aegislash-EX 65 stands highest on HP — number 8 of 99 cards in Phantom Forces. Cut the archive a different way and the answer moves, which is what the bars below are for.

  • Mega Emboar ex — 380 HP, the highest in this group
    Every card in the archive — 20,444 cards No. 2,568 of 17,290 by HP · No. 8,196 of 16,246 by damage · top by HP: Mega Emboar ex, 380
    top 50% on damage
  • Copperajah VMAX — 340 HP, the highest in this group
    Metal cards — 925 cards No. 208 of 924 by HP · No. 602 of 903 by damage · top by HP: Copperajah VMAX, 340
    top 67% on damage
  • Wailord-EX — 250 HP, the highest in this group
    EX cards — 438 cards No. 247 of 438 by HP · No. 384 of 424 by damage · top by HP: Wailord-EX, 250
    top 90% on damage
  • M Gengar-EX — 220 HP, the highest in this group
    Phantom Forces — 124 cards No. 8 of 99 by HP · No. 47 of 91 by damage · top by HP: M Gengar-EX, 220
    top 51% on damage

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 170 HPmiddle half 60–130 HP
  • Top printed damage 40 damagemiddle 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.

Read from the card files this site reads, July 28, 2026. The archive tops out at 380 HP and 350 printed damage.
Cards printed as EX
438 on record
Cards in the same HP band
2,679 of 17,290 (15.5%)
Cards with this much printed damage
3,566 of 16,246 (22.0%)
Counted from the card files this site reads, one card at a time.

Open the group this card falls into

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What Aegislash-EX 65 does without attacking

Aegislash-EX 65 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.
Mighty Shield — Ability
Prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from each of your opponent's Pokémon that has any Special Energy attached to it.
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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Is Aegislash-EX 65 efficient for the Energy it asks for?

Printed damage on its own says nothing — a 40 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.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
1 Energy9,392 cards49.049 damage typical
2 Energy4,565 cards32.565 damage typical
3 Energy2,533 cards34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy421 cards27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy47 cards41.8209 damage typical
Aegislash-EX 65 — this card13.040 damage for 3 Energy

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 3 typically return 34.7 damage per Energy card. This card returns 13.

Damage per Energy card, across the whole archive
GroupShareValue
1 Energy49.049 damage typical
2 Energy32.565 damage typical
3 Energy34.7104 damage typical
4 Energy27.8111 damage typical
5 Energy41.8209 damage typical
Aegislash-EX 65 — this card13.040 damage for 3 Energy
2501250 damage
012345 Energy
Typical for that Energy cost 6 groupsSlash Blast 40 / 3

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.

Energy cost against printed damage. Each grey dot is what cards asking that much Energy typically print; the coloured dots are the attacks on Aegislash-EX 65.
GroupTypical printed damageDamage per Energy cardCards in this group
Cheapest attack costs 0 Energy45304
Cheapest attack costs 1 Energy49499,392
Cheapest attack costs 2 Energy65334,565
Cheapest attack costs 3 Energy104352,533
Cheapest attack costs 4 Energy11128421
Cheapest attack costs 5 Energy2094247
Slash Blast13
This card, per Energy card
13 damage
Typical for a 3 Energy attack
34.7 damage
Difference
-21.7 damage
Both figures are damage divided by Energy cost, counted the same way.

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 40 is read as high or low rather than merely large.

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Is Aegislash-EX 65 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.

Hit points170 HPtypical for the group is 179 HP — this card is 5% below
Top printed damage40 damagetypical for the group is 99 damage — this card is 60% below
Retreat cost3 Energytypical for the group is 2 Energy — this card is 50% above

The group is every EX card in the archive — 438 of them. Each figure is compared with what that group typically prints, not with the archive as a whole.

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What does being a Metal card do for Aegislash-EX 65?

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 1,574 Fire cards carry that type A Fire attack printed at 85 damage is enough to remove this card in one turn.
Aegislash-EX 65 · Basic EX 170 HP Its hardest attack is printed at 40 damage.
Takes double from this card 237 cards in groups that print a Metal weakness Against Fairy, printed damage from this card counts double.
How the archive splits by energy type
Psychicmost 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
Metal — this cardmost 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
Psychic13.5%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
Metal — this card5.4%925 cards
Darkness7.2%1,249 cards
Dragon3.1%530 cards
Fairy1.4%237 cards
Metalweak to Fire
Fairyweak to Metal

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

What being a Metal card is worth

Groups that most often print a Metal weakness: Fairy (237 cards). Against those, this card's printed damage counts double. Going the other way, Metal cards are themselves most exposed to Fire.

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What knocks out Aegislash-EX 65 in one hit, and what does it knock out?

Weakness doubles the damage a Fire attack deals to this card, so the bar it has to clear is 85 printed damage rather than 170.

Cards that remove it in one attack
517
Cards it removes in one attack
371
Fire damage needed to knock it out
85
Counted across the whole card archive. 170 HP against a Fire weakness at ×2 decides all three figures.
Removes it in one attackMega Charizard X exMega Charizard X exPhantasmal Flames 10990 damage
×2Fire weakness · 85 printed damage is enough
90 damage becomes 180 against this card
This cardAegislash-EX 65Aegislash-EX 65Phantom Forces 65170 HP

Why this card was picked to stand opposite

Of the 512 cards in the archive that can remove Aegislash-EX 65 in a single attack, this one clears the bar by the smallest margin — 90 printed damage against a bar of 85. 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.

Aegislash-EXweak to Fire ×2
Aegislash-EXresists Psychic -20

Read from the two boxes in the lower-left corner of the card — weakness multiplies incoming damage, resistance subtracts from it.

What the Psychic resistance changes

Damage from Psychic 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.

Fire cards that remove Aegislash-EX in one attack
CardSetHPPrinted damageAfter weakness
Charizard ex (183)151330330660
Charizard ex (199)151330330660
Charizard ex (161)Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos330330660
Mega Emboar ex (31)Ascended Heroes380320640
Mega Emboar ex (273)Ascended Heroes380320640
Charizard VSTAR (19)Crown Zenith280320640

170 HP against a Fire ×2 weakness means any Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more is enough. 517 cards in the archive clear that bar.

Cards this one removes in a single attack

371 cards in the archive are weak to Metal 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.

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What can you use instead of Aegislash-EX 65?

Every card below asks a deck for the same kind of slot, so the comparison is between what they print, not what they cost.

Cards that fill the same slot as Aegislash-EX 65
CardSetHPTop damageRetreat
Dialga-EXPhantom Forces1801502
Registeel-EXDragons Exalted180804
Cobalion-EXPlasma Storm1801002
Skarmory-EXXY170801
Aggron-EXPrimal Clash180604
Metagross-EXXY Black Star Promos180504

This card itself is 170 HP, 40 top damage and 3 retreat, and every card here is Metal like 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 Aegislash-EX 65 in Phantom 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.

Cards printed either side of this one

These are the cards numbered either side of #65 in Phantom 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.

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Which rules apply to Aegislash-EX 65, 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 a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.”

Rulebook clauses that apply to Aegislash-EX 65
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.

Aegislash-EX 65 — tournament formats
FormatStatusWhat that means
StandardNot listedThis card is not listed for 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 Expanded play. It was released on November 5, 2014.

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Aegislash-EX 65 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, Slash Blast, needs 3 Energy attached. Energy attaches once a turn, so that attack waits 3 turns from an empty card.
  • That works out at 13 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

Every card in the archiveNo. 2,568 of 17,290
Metal cardsNo. 208 of 924
EX cardsNo. 247 of 438
Phantom ForcesNo. 8 of 99

What actually removes it

  • A Fire attack printed at 85 damage removes it in a single turn — that is the bar, not its 170 HP.
  • 517 cards in the archive clear that bar.
  • Going the other way, it removes 371 cards in one attack.
  • Damage from Psychic attacks is reduced before it is applied, so an attack that clears the bar on paper may still fall short.
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Aegislash-EX 65 card record

Aegislash-EX 65 — the printed record, field by field
Hit points170 HPTypeMetal
WeaknessFire ×2Retreat cost3 Energy
Card typeBasic EXPokédex number#681
SetPhantom ForcesCard number65 of 119
SeriesXYReleasedNovember 5, 2014
RarityRare Holo EXIllustratorAyaka Yoshida
Tournament legalityUnlimited and Expanded only
Printed rulePokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

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

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What does Aegislash-EX 65 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
$4.03
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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Aegislash-EX 65 — frequently asked questions

How much damage does it take to knock out Aegislash-EX 65?

Aegislash-EX 65 has 170 HP and a Fire weakness at ×2, so a Fire attack printed at 85 damage or more removes it in one turn. Any other type has to print the full 170.

What is the strongest attack on Aegislash-EX 65?

Slash Blast, printed at 40 damage for 3 Energy — 13 damage per Energy card. This attack does 20 more damage for each Metal Energy attached to this Pokémon.

What is the retreat cost of Aegislash-EX 65?

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

Can Aegislash-EX 65 be played in a tournament?

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

What does the rule on Aegislash-EX 65 mean?

The card reads “Pokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.” That sentence is printed on the card itself, so it applies wherever the card is played.

Does this page say how good Aegislash-EX 65 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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