Surging Sparks

Archaludon ex

SSPEN130· Double rare
Archaludon ex SSP 130

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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
300
Type
Metal
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
H
Set
Surging Sparks (SSP)

Its Ability

Assemble Alloy

When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may attach up to 2 Basic Energy cards from your discard pile to your Pokémon in any way you like.

Its attacks

Metal Defender

220

During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon has no Weakness.

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

    300 HP. Only 3 cards in Surging Sparks carry more.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

    Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 26 of the 26 lists we have read, seen across 26 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

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

  5. Keep in mind

    It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 816 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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
Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce26 of 2626SSP 130
Archaludon ex24 of 2418SSP 130
Archaludon ex / N's Zoroark ex23 of 2320SSP 130
Hop's Zacian ex3 of 343SSP 130

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.

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 7 Archaludon cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Archaludon card and its price