Destined Rivals

Team Rocket's Articuno

DRIEN051· Rare
Team Rocket's Articuno DRI 51

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What the card itself says

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HP
120
Type
Water
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
I
Set
Destined Rivals (DRI)

Its Ability

Repelling Veil

Prevent all effects of attacks used by your opponent's Pokémon done to your Basic Team Rocket's Pokémon. (Existing effects are not removed. Damage is not an effect.)

Its attacks

Dark Frost

60+

If this Pokémon has any Team Rocket's Energy attached, this attack does 60 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.

  1. A strength

    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.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

    Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex runs it in 41 of the 41 lists we have read, seen across 39 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  5. A strength

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

  6. Keep in mind

    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.

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

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.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex41 of 4139DRI 51
Team Rocket's Honchkrow38 of 3934DRI 51
Team Rocket's Spidops15 of 1615DRI 51
Sylveon14 of 1914DRI 51
rocket-nidoking-ex9 of 229DRI 51
Joltik5 of 245DRI 51
Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant3 of 383DRI 51
Crustle2 of 532DRI 51
Dudunsparce2 of 252DRI 51
Metagross2 of 342DRI 51
Feraligatr1 of 131DRI 51
Froslass / Munkidori1 of 301DRI 51
Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce1 of 281DRI 51
Mega Starmie ex / Dusknoir1 of 451DRI 51

When it came out

Destined Rivals landed here on 30 May 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 April 2025, under the code SV10. That is 42 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 40 Articuno cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Articuno card and its price