Temporal Forces

Golurk

TEF088· Uncommon
Golurk TEF 88

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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
160
Type
Fighting
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
4
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
H
Set
Temporal Forces (TEF)

Its attacks

Iron Defense

Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks.

Fighting Fist

120+

If your opponent's Active Pokémon is a Pokémon ex or Pokémon V, this attack does 120 more damage.

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

    yanmega-ex runs it in 1 of the 25 lists we have read, seen across 1 different tournaments.

  2. A strength

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

  3. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 4. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 2,021 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
yanmega-ex1 of 251TEF 88

When it came out

Temporal Forces landed here on 22 March 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 January 2024, under the code SV5K + SV5M. That is 56 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 18 Golurk cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Golurk card and its price