Shrouded Fable
Absol
Versions of this card
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What the card itself says
Everything below is written on the card itself: how much health it has, what it fears, and what its attacks cost.
- HP
- 110
- Type
- Darkness
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- H
Its attacks
Darkfall
20+If you have at least 3 Energy in play, this attack does 50 more damage.
What to make of it
Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
- mega-gengar-ex runs it in 3 of the 14 lists we have read, seen across 3 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 2,021 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
- Mark H, and that is the letter the next rotation takes away. After that you will not be able to play it in Standard.
Who plays it
These decks really played this card at a tournament. We spot it by the little set code printed at the bottom, the one players copy onto their list — two cards sometimes share a name, the code never lies.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mega-gengar-ex | 3 of 14 | 3 | SFA 30 |
When it came out
Shrouded Fable landed here on 2 August 2024.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 7 June 2024, under the code SV6a. That is 56 days ahead of us.
The other cards of this Pokémon
Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 27 Absol cards on one page, priciest first.