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Sceptile
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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
- 100
- Type
- Grass
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 3
- Weakness
- +30
- Resistance
- -20
Its Ability
Wild Growth
Each basic Grass Energy card attached to your Grass Pokémon provides Grass Grass Energy instead. You can't use more than 1 Wild Growth Poké-Body each turn.
Its attacks
Leaf Blade
50+Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 50 damage plus 20 more damage.
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, Wild Growth. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
- 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 a Stage 2. You have to come through Grovyle to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Fire +30. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 816 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 23 Sceptile cards on one page, priciest first.