Pitch Black
Dark Bell
PBL075· Uncommon
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.
- Regulation mark
- J
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
- mega-darkrai-ex runs it in 24 of the 27 lists we have read, seen across 20 different tournaments.
- No Weakness printed on the card. Nothing doubles up the damage it takes.
- Mark J. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mega-darkrai-ex | 24 of 27 | 20 | PBL 75 |
| Toxtricity | 22 of 33 | 21 | PBL 75 |
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex | 18 of 30 | 18 | PBL 75 |
| Dragapult ex | 9 of 36 | 9 | PBL 75 |
| Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce | 8 of 41 | 7 | PBL 75 |
| Flygon ex | 8 of 10 | 8 | PBL 75 |
| Gengar ex | 8 of 17 | 8 | PBL 75 |
| Froslass / Munkidori | 7 of 30 | 7 | PBL 75 |
| mega-gengar-ex | 6 of 14 | 6 | PBL 75 |
| mega-sharpedo-ex | 5 of 9 | 5 | PBL 75 |
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass | 4 of 29 | 4 | PBL 75 |
| Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity | 3 of 53 | 3 | PBL 75 |
| Wailord ex | 3 of 20 | 3 | PBL 75 |
| hydreigon-ex | 2 of 43 | 2 | PBL 75 |
| other | 2 of 38 | 2 | PBL 75 |
| rocket-nidoking-ex | 2 of 22 | 2 | PBL 75 |
| Toxtricity | 2 of 29 | 2 | PBL 75 |
| Greninja ex | 1 of 38 | 1 | PBL 75 |
| Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce | 1 of 54 | 1 | PBL 75 |
| Mega Absol ex | 1 of 21 | 1 | PBL 75 |
| Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce | 1 of 28 | 1 | PBL 75 |
| Mega Starmie ex | 1 of 37 | 1 | PBL 75 |
| Mega Starmie ex / Dusknoir | 1 of 45 | 1 | PBL 75 |
| Wailord ex | 1 of 28 | 1 | PBL 75 |
When it came out
Pitch Black landed here on 17 July 2026.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 22 May 2026, under the code M5. That is 56 days ahead of us.