SVP Black Star Promos
Chien-Pao
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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
- Water
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- H
Its Ability
Snow Sink
When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard a Stadium in play.
Its attacks
Icicle Loop
120Put an Energy attached to this Pokémon into your hand.
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
- Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
- It has an Ability, Snow Sink. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex runs it in 38 of the 38 lists we have read, seen across 30 different tournaments.
- 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
- Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 477 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex | 38 of 38 | 30 | SSP 56 |
| Raging Bolt ex | 34 of 37 | 32 | SSP 56 |
| Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex | 29 of 45 | 25 | SSP 56 |
| Lillie's Clefairy ex | 29 of 31 | 28 | SSP 56 |
| Flareon ex / Noctowl | 15 of 28 | 15 | SSP 56 |
| Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex | 13 of 34 | 12 | SSP 56 |
| Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom | 12 of 28 | 12 | SSP 56 |
| Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce | 10 of 54 | 10 | SSP 56 |
| Toucannon | 9 of 24 | 9 | SSP 56 |
| Joltik | 8 of 24 | 8 | SSP 56 |
| Mega Dragonite ex | 4 of 28 | 4 | SSP 56 |
| blissey-ex | 2 of 18 | 2 | SSP 56 |
| bronzong-tef | 2 of 26 | 2 | SSP 56 |
| Luxray ex | 2 of 6 | 2 | SSP 56 |
| Mega Camerupt ex | 2 of 30 | 2 | SSP 56 |
| Alakazam / Dusknoir | 1 of 52 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Azumarill | 1 of 32 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Blaziken ex | 1 of 20 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce | 1 of 41 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Dragapult ex | 1 of 36 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| hydreigon-ex | 1 of 43 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Mega Absol ex | 1 of 21 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Mega Greninja ex | 1 of 30 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Mega Starmie ex | 1 of 37 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| other | 1 of 38 | 1 | SSP 56 |
| Terapagos ex / Noctowl | 1 of 17 | 1 | SSP 56 |
When it came out
SVP Black Star Promos landed here on 31 March 2023.
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 10 Chien-Pao cards on one page, priciest first.