Surging Sparks

Palossand ex

SSP221· Ultra Rare
Palossand ex SSP 221

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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
280
Type
Psychic
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
4
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
H
Set
Surging Sparks (SSP)

Its attacks

Sand Tomb

160

During your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon can't retreat.

Barite Jail

Put damage counters on each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon until its remaining HP is 100.

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.

  1. A strength

    280 HP. Only 5 cards in Surging Sparks carry more.

  2. A strength

    Flygon ex runs it in 1 of the 10 lists we have read, seen across 1 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

    Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  4. Keep in mind

    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.

  5. Keep in mind

    It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 1,987 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
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Flygon ex1 of 101SSP 91

When it came out

Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 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 11 Palossand cards on one page, priciest first.

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