Team Rocket Returns

Dark Electrode

TR4· Rare
Dark Electrode TR 4

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What the card itself says

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HP
70
Type
LightningDarkness
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2

Its Ability

Darkness Navigation

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Dark Electrode has no Energy attached to it, you may search your deck for a Darkness or Dark Metal Energy and attach it to Dark Electrode. Shuffle your deck afterward. This power can't be used if Dark Electrode is affected by a Special Condition.

Its attacks

Energy Bomb

30

You may move all Energy cards attached to Dark Electrode to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like.

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

    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.

  2. A strength

    Energy Bomb hits for 30 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Team Rocket Returns hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

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

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,362 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,362 tournament lists we have read, 773 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 46 Electrode cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Electrode card and its price