Destined Rivals
Team Rocket's Tarountula
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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
- 50
- Type
- Grass
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- I
Its attacks
Take Down
30This Pokémon also does 10 damage to itself.
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
- 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.
- Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex runs it in 40 of the 40 lists we have read, seen across 38 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,240 tournament lists we have read, 804 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.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex | 40 of 40 | 38 | DRI 19 |
| Team Rocket's Spidops | 16 of 16 | 16 | DRI 19 |
| rocket-nidoking-ex | 8 of 22 | 8 | DRI 19 |
| Mega Charizard X ex | 1 of 38 | 1 | DRI 19 |
| mega-latias-ex | 1 of 8 | 1 | DRI 19 |
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.