Paradox Rift
Garchomp ex
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€5.00
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You receive
€5.00
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.
- HP
- 320
- Type
- Water
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 0
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- G
Its attacks
Hydro Lander
160Attach up to 3 Basic Energy cards from your discard pile to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like.
Sonic Dive
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. This attack does 120 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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
- 320 HP. Only 2 cards in Paradox Rift carry more.
- It retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.
- Hydro Lander hits for 160 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Paradox Rift hits harder for that price.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- None of the 3,299 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.
- It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Gabite to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 281 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
- Mark G, and that letter has already left the format. You can still play it at home, or keep it in your binder. In a Standard tournament, no: the letters allowed today are H, I, and J.
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.
When it came out
Paradox Rift landed here on 3 November 2023.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 27 October 2023, under the code SV4K + SV4M. That is 7 days ahead of us.
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 38 Garchomp cards on one page, priciest first.