SVP Black Star Promos
Infernape
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
- 140
- Type
- Fire
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- H
Its Ability
Pyro Dance
Once during your turn, you may attach a Basic Energy card, a Basic Energy card, or 1 of each from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like.
Its attacks
Scorching Fire
200Discard an Energy from this 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
- 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.
- It has an Ability, Pyro Dance. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Alakazam runs it in 1 of the 25 lists we have read, seen across 1 different tournaments.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Monferno to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- 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.
- Mark H, and that is the letter the next rotation takes away. After that you will not be able to play it in Standard.
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.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alakazam | 1 of 25 | 1 | TWM 33 |
When it came out
SVP Black Star Promos landed here on 31 March 2023.
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 16 Infernape cards on one page, priciest first.