Black Bolt

Elgyem

BLK040· Common
Elgyem BLK 40

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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
60
Type
Psychic
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
I
Set
Black Bolt (BLK)

Its attacks

Slight Shift

Move an Energy from 1 of your opponent's Pokémon to another of their Pokémon.

Beam

40

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

    Mega Chandelure ex runs it in 28 of the 34 lists we have read, seen across 25 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  4. A strength

    Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,987 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Mega Chandelure ex28 of 3425BLK 40
Dudunsparce25 of 2524BLK 40
Alakazam / Dudunsparce5 of 345BLK 40
Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce3 of 413BLK 40
Froslass / Munkidori2 of 302BLK 40
Alakazam1 of 251BLK 40
other1 of 381BLK 40

When it came out

Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 12 Elgyem cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Elgyem card and its price