Pitch Black
Mega Excadrill 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
- 340
- Type
- Metal
- Stage
- Stage 1
- Retreat cost
- 4
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30
- Regulation mark
- J
Its attacks
Undermine
90Discard the top 2 cards of your opponent's deck.
Maximum Drilling
200+If this Pokémon has at least 2 extra Energy attached (in addition to this attack's cost), this attack does 130 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.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- 340 HP. Only 3 cards in Pitch Black carry more.
- Mega Excadrill ex runs it in 26 of the 26 lists we have read, seen across 24 different tournaments.
- Mark J. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- 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.
- It is a Mega Evolution ex, and that is the most expensive rule in the game. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 3 Prizes instead of one. They need six to win, so 2 knockouts on this card are enough. Send it out knowing that.
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 816 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 Excadrill ex | 26 of 26 | 24 | PBL 65 |
| Steven's Metagross ex | 15 of 38 | 15 | PBL 65 |
| Metagross | 12 of 34 | 11 | PBL 65 |
| other | 4 of 38 | 4 | PBL 65 |
| Archaludon ex | 1 of 24 | 1 | PBL 65 |
When it came out
Pitch Black landed here on 17 July 2026.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 22 May 2026, under the code M5. That is 56 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 23 Excadrill cards on one page, priciest first.