Prismatic Evolutions
Iron Crown ex
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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
- 220
- Type
- Psychic
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30
- Regulation mark
- H
Its Ability
Cobalt Command
Attacks used by your Future Pokémon, except any Iron Crown ex, do 20 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Its attacks
Twin Shotels
This attack does 50 damage to 2 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance, or by any effects on those 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
- It has an Ability, Cobalt Command. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Raging Bolt ex runs it in 21 of the 37 lists we have read, seen across 20 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raging Bolt ex | 21 of 37 | 20 | TEF 81 |
| Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex | 12 of 45 | 12 | TEF 81 |
| Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex | 9 of 38 | 8 | TEF 81 |
| Joltik | 2 of 24 | 2 | TEF 81 |
| bronzong-tef | 1 of 26 | 1 | TEF 81 |
| Flareon ex / Noctowl | 1 of 28 | 1 | TEF 81 |
| Lillie's Clefairy ex | 1 of 31 | 1 | TEF 81 |
| Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom | 1 of 28 | 1 | TEF 81 |
When it came out
Prismatic Evolutions landed here on 17 January 2025.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 December 2024, under the code SV8a. That is 42 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 7 Iron Crown cards on one page, priciest first.