Deoxys
Salamence ex
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
- 160
- Type
- Colorless
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30-30
Its Ability
Dragon Lift
The Retreat Cost for each of your Pokémon (excluding Pokémon-ex and Baby Pokémon) is 0.
Its attacks
Flame Jet
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 40 damage to that Pokémon. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance.
Bright Flame
120Discard 2 Energy attached to Salamence ex.
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
- 160 HP, and nothing in Deoxys goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.
- Bright Flame hits for 120 on 4 Energy. Nothing in Deoxys hits harder for that price.
- It has an Ability, Dragon Lift. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
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.
- Weakness Colorless ×2. Against a Colorless Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 2,362 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
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.
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 28 Salamence cards on one page, priciest first.