Black Bolt

Antique Cover Fossil

BLKEN080· Common
Antique Cover Fossil BLK 80

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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
60
Regulation mark
H
Set
Black Bolt (BLK)

Its Ability

Protective Cover

Prevent all effects of attacks used by your opponent's Pokémon done to this Pokémon. (Damage is not an effect.)

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.

  1. A strength

    It has an Ability, Protective Cover. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  2. A strength

    Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 2 of the 28 lists we have read, seen across 2 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

    No Weakness printed on the card. Nothing doubles up the damage it takes.

  4. A strength

    Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

Standard format: source checked on September 8, 2026. TCGdex

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
Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce2 of 282SCR 129

When it came out

Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates