Phantasmal Flames
Piplup
You receive
€5.00
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You receive
€5.00
Versions of this card
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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
- 70
- Type
- Water
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- I
Its attacks
Call for Support
Search your deck for a Supporter card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Tackle
20What 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.
- Steven's Metagross ex runs it in 30 of the 38 lists we have read, seen across 29 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven's Metagross ex | 30 of 38 | 29 | PFL 27 |
| Metagross | 5 of 34 | 5 | PFL 27 |
| Archaludon ex | 2 of 24 | 2 | PFL 27 |
| Mega Excadrill ex | 2 of 26 | 2 | PFL 27 |
When it came out
Phantasmal Flames landed here on 14 November 2025.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 September 2025, under the code M2. That is 49 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 24 Piplup cards on one page, priciest first.