Primal Clash
Kingdra
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
- 130
- Type
- Dragon
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
Its Ability
α Growth
When you attach an Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon (except with an attack, Ability, or Trainer card), you may attach 2 Energy cards.
Its attacks
Gather Strength
Search your deck for up to 4 basic Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Dragon Blast
150Discard a Water Energy and a Lightning Energy attached to 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.
- Dragon Blast hits for 150 on 3 Energy. Nothing in Primal Clash hits harder for that price.
- It has an Ability, α Growth. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
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 a Stage 2. You have to come through Seadra to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Fairy ×2. Against a Fairy Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 0 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
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.
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 29 Kingdra cards on one page, priciest first.