Obsidian Flames
Pawmot 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
- 300
- Type
- Lightning
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 0
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- G
Its attacks
Zap Kick
60Levin Strike
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. This attack does 220 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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
- 300 HP. Only 4 cards in Obsidian Flames carry more.
- It retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- None of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
- 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.
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Pawmo to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 760 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
- Mark G, and that letter has already left the format. You can still play it at home, or keep it in your binder. In a Standard tournament, no: the letters allowed today are H, I, and J.
Who plays it
None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.
When it came out
Obsidian Flames landed here on 11 August 2023.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 28 July 2023, under the code SV3. That is 14 days ahead of us.