Prismatic Evolutions

Noctowl

Name: Noctowl PRE 78
Brand: Pokémon

PRE078· Rare

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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: 100
Type: Colorless
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: H
Set: Prismatic Evolutions (PRE)

Its Ability

Jewel Seeker

Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, if you have any Tera Pokémon in play, you may search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

Its attacks

Speed Wing

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.

A strength
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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Jewel Seeker. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Flareon ex / Noctowl runs it in 28 of the 28 lists we have read, seen across 24 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Weakness Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 281 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 8, 2026. TCGdex

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.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Flareon ex / Noctowl	28 of 28	24	SCR 115
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom	28 of 28	26	SCR 115
Azumarill	21 of 32	19	SCR 115
Toucannon	19 of 24	18	SCR 115
Terapagos ex / Noctowl	17 of 17	17	SCR 115
Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Arboliva ex	15 of 56	14	SCR 115
hydreigon-ex	9 of 43	9	SCR 115
Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium	5 of 27	5	SCR 115
Feraligatr	4 of 13	4	SCR 115
Greninja ex	2 of 38	2	SCR 115
Mega Greninja ex	2 of 30	2	SCR 115
Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex	2 of 37	2	SCR 115
other	2 of 38	2	SCR 115
Raging Bolt ex	2 of 37	2	SCR 115
Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex	1 of 45	1	SCR 115
Blaziken ex	1 of 20	1	SCR 115
Dragapult ex	1 of 36	1	SCR 115
Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant	1 of 38	1	SCR 115
Mega Feraligatr ex	1 of 22	1	SCR 115
mega-gengar-ex	1 of 14	1	SCR 115
Sinistcha / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	1 of 22	1	SCR 115

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.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 19 Noctowl cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Noctowl card and its price