Surging Sparks
Annihilape
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
- 140
- Type
- Fighting
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- H
Its attacks
Tantrum
130This Pokémon is now Confused.
Destined Fight
Both Active Pokémon are Knocked Out.
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
- Tantrum hits for 130 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Surging Sparks hits harder for that price.
- Slowking runs it in 24 of the 34 lists we have read, seen across 23 different tournaments.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Primeape to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,909 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slowking | 24 of 34 | 23 | SSP 100 |
| other | 1 of 38 | 1 | SSP 100 |
When it came out
Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 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 8 Annihilape cards on one page, priciest first.