Journey Together
Maractus
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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
- 110
- Type
- Grass
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- I
Its Ability
Exploding Needles
If this Pokémon is in the Active Spot and is Knocked Out by damage from an attack from your opponent's Pokémon, put 6 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.
Its attacks
Corner
20During your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon can't retreat.
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, Exploding Needles. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Mega Chandelure ex runs it in 19 of the 34 lists we have read, seen across 19 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,240 tournament lists we have read, 804 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Chandelure ex | 19 of 34 | 19 | JTG 8 |
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass | 5 of 28 | 5 | JTG 8 |
| Blaziken ex | 3 of 20 | 3 | JTG 8 |
| Dragapult ex / Froslass | 3 of 23 | 3 | JTG 8 |
| yanmega-ex | 2 of 24 | 2 | JTG 8 |
| Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex | 1 of 34 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Dudunsparce | 1 of 24 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Feraligatr | 1 of 13 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Froslass / Munkidori | 1 of 30 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Jellicent ex / Dusknoir | 1 of 25 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Mega Dragonite ex | 1 of 28 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| mega-froslass-ex | 1 of 28 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium | 1 of 26 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| other | 1 of 37 | 1 | JTG 8 |
| Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone | 1 of 29 | 1 | JTG 8 |
When it came out
Journey Together landed here on 28 March 2025.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 24 January 2025, under the code SV9. That is 63 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 13 Maractus cards on one page, priciest first.