Surging Sparks
Archaludon ex
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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
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
220During 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.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- 300 HP. Only 3 cards in Surging Sparks carry more.
- It has an Ability, Assemble Alloy. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 26 of the 26 lists we have read, seen across 26 different tournaments.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce | 26 of 26 | 26 | SSP 130 |
| Archaludon ex | 24 of 24 | 18 | SSP 130 |
| Archaludon ex / N's Zoroark ex | 23 of 23 | 20 | SSP 130 |
| Hop's Zacian ex | 3 of 34 | 3 | SSP 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.
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.