Surging Sparks

Slaking ex

SSP227· Ultra Rare
Slaking ex SSP 227

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What the card itself says

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HP
340
Type
Colorless
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
4
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
H
Set
Surging Sparks (SSP)

Its Ability

Born to Slack

If your opponent has no Pokémon ex or Pokémon V in play, this Pokémon can't attack.

Its attacks

Great Swing

280

Discard an Energy from this 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.

  1. A strength

    340 HP, and nothing in Surging Sparks goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.

  2. A strength

    Great Swing hits for 280 on 2 Energy. Nothing in Surging Sparks hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

    It has an Ability, Born to Slack. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  4. A strength

    Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  5. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 4. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  6. Keep in mind

    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.

  7. Keep in mind

    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.

  8. Keep in mind

    It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Vigoroth to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.

  9. Keep in mind

    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.

Standard format: source checked on September 8, 2026. TCGdex

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

Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 16 Slaking cards on one page, priciest first.

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