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Blacephalon
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
- 120
- Type
- Fire
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
Its attacks
Blazer
10+Turn 1 of your face-down Prize cards face up. If it’s a Fire Energy card, this attack does 50 more damage. (That Prize card remains face up for the rest of the game.)
Fireball Circus
50×Discard any number of Fire Energy cards from your hand. This attack does 50 damage for each card you discarded in this way.
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
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- None of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
- Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,351 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.
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 6 Blacephalon cards on one page, priciest first.