Twilight Masquerade
Palafin
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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
- Water
- Stage
- Stage 1
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- H
Its Ability
Zero to Hero
Once during your turn, when this Pokémon moves from the Active Spot to the Bench, you may search your deck for a Palafin ex and switch it with this Pokémon. Any attached cards, damage counters, Special Conditions, turns in play, and any other effects remain on the new Pokémon. If you switched a Pokémon in this way, put this card into your deck. Then, shuffle your deck.
Its attacks
Wave Splash
30What 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.
- It has an Ability, Zero to Hero. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- Palafin ex runs it in 34 of the 34 lists we have read, seen across 30 different tournaments.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- 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.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palafin ex | 34 of 34 | 30 | TWM 60 |
When it came out
Twilight Masquerade landed here on 24 May 2024.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 April 2024, under the code SV6. That is 28 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 12 Palafin cards on one page, priciest first.