Ascended Heroes

Ethan's Magcargo

ASCEN222· Illustration rare
Ethan's Magcargo ASC 222

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€3.40

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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
130
Type
Fire
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
3
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
I
Set
Ascended Heroes (ASC)

Its Ability

Melt Away

If this Pokémon has no Energy attached, it has no Retreat Cost.

Its attacks

Lava Burst

70×

Discard up to 5 Energy from this Pokémon. This attack does 70 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.

  1. A strength

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

  2. A strength

    Ethan's Magcargo runs it in 23 of the 23 lists we have read, seen across 22 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

    Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  4. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  5. Keep in mind

    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.

Standard format: source checked on September 8, 2026. TCGdex

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
Ethan's Magcargo23 of 2322DRI 36

When it came out

Ascended Heroes landed here on 30 January 2026.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 28 November 2025, under the code M2a. That is 63 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates