Destined Rivals
Team Rocket's Factory
DRI173· Uncommon
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.
- Regulation mark
- I
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
- Crustle runs it in 49 of the 53 lists we have read, seen across 41 different tournaments.
- No Weakness printed on the card. Nothing doubles up the damage it takes.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
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.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crustle | 49 of 53 | 41 | DRI 173 |
| Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex | 41 of 41 | 39 | DRI 173 |
| Team Rocket's Honchkrow | 39 of 39 | 35 | DRI 173 |
| Toxtricity | 20 of 33 | 19 | DRI 173 |
| rocket-nidoking-ex | 17 of 22 | 16 | DRI 173 |
| Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant | 16 of 38 | 15 | DRI 173 |
| Team Rocket's Spidops | 14 of 16 | 14 | DRI 173 |
| Toxtricity | 13 of 29 | 13 | DRI 173 |
| Ethan's Magcargo | 11 of 23 | 10 | DRI 173 |
| blissey-ex | 8 of 18 | 8 | DRI 173 |
| Mega Excadrill ex | 6 of 26 | 6 | DRI 173 |
| Froslass / Munkidori | 5 of 30 | 5 | DRI 173 |
| mega-darkrai-ex | 4 of 27 | 4 | DRI 173 |
| mega-zygarde-ex | 4 of 18 | 4 | DRI 173 |
| Cinccino ex | 3 of 29 | 3 | DRI 173 |
| doublade-por | 3 of 25 | 3 | DRI 173 |
| Metagross | 3 of 34 | 3 | DRI 173 |
| other | 3 of 38 | 3 | DRI 173 |
| Archaludon ex | 2 of 24 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| bronzong-tef | 2 of 26 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce | 2 of 28 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| mega-manectric-ex-meg | 2 of 7 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity | 2 of 53 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| Sylveon | 2 of 19 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| N's Zoroark ex / Crustle | 2 of 6 | 2 | DRI 173 |
| iron-thorns-ex | 1 of 29 | 1 | DRI 173 |
| Joltik | 1 of 24 | 1 | DRI 173 |
| mega-gengar-ex | 1 of 14 | 1 | DRI 173 |
| mega-sharpedo-ex | 1 of 9 | 1 | DRI 173 |
| Steven's Metagross ex | 1 of 38 | 1 | DRI 173 |
| Wailord ex | 1 of 28 | 1 | DRI 173 |
| Wailord ex | 1 of 20 | 1 | DRI 173 |
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.