The cardMEP 3 · MEP 9 · MEG 56
Alakazam

Alakazam

Alakazam arrived with Mega Evolution on 26 September 2025. Here is what it does once it is on the table, and what it is worth right now.

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.

HP140
TypePsychic
StageStage 2
Retreat cost1
WeaknessDarkness ×2
ResistanceFighting -30
Regulation markI

ITS ABILITY

Psychic DrawOnce during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may use this Ability. Draw 3 cards.

ITS ATTACKS

Powerful HandPsychicPlace 2 damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon for each card in your hand.

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.
  • It has an Ability, Psychic Draw. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
  • Alakazam / Dusknoir runs it in 46 of the 46 lists we have read, seen across 15 different tournaments.
  • Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.

WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

  • It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Kadabra to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
  • Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,150 tournament lists we have read, 1,897 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

What it costs

We have no price to show you for this card today. The link below takes you where it sells, and you will see the day's numbers there.

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.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Alakazam / Dusknoir46 of 4615MEG 56
Alakazam / Dudunsparce33 of 3333MEG 56
Alakazam25 of 2517MEG 56
Seaking2 of 342MEG 56
Lillie's Clefairy ex1 of 301MEG 56
Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce1 of 511MEG 56
Mega Chandelure ex1 of 331MEG 56

When it came out

Mega Evolution landed here on 26 September 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 1 August 2025, under the code M1L + M1S. That is 56 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 31 Alakazam cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Alakazam card and its price

Where to find it

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