Destined Rivals

Team Rocket's Moltres ex

DRI229· Special illustration rare
Team Rocket's Moltres ex DRI 229

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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
Fire
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
I
Set
Destined Rivals (DRI)

Its attacks

Flame Screen

110

During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes 50 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

Evil Incineration

Discard a Team Rocket's Energy from this Pokémon. If you do, discard your opponent's Active Pokémon and all attached cards.

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

    hydreigon-ex runs it in 2 of the 43 lists we have read, seen across 2 different tournaments.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

    Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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
hydreigon-ex2 of 432DRI 31
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex2 of 412DRI 31
Team Rocket's Spidops2 of 162DRI 31

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 42 Moltres cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Moltres card and its price