Paradox Rift
Sandy Shocks ex
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
- 220
- Type
- Fighting
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- G
Its Ability
Magnetic Absorption
Once during your turn, if your opponent has 4 or fewer Prize cards remaining, you may attach a Basic Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon.
Its attacks
Earthen Spike
200During your next turn, this Pokémon can't attack.
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
- It has an Ability, Magnetic Absorption. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- None of the 3,240 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 Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,240 tournament lists we have read, 1,984 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
Paradox Rift landed here on 3 November 2023.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 27 October 2023, under the code SV4K + SV4M. That is 7 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 6 Sandy Shocks cards on one page, priciest first.