Destined Rivals

Team Rocket's Tarountula

DRI019· Common
Team Rocket's Tarountula DRI 19

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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
Set
Destined Rivals (DRI)

Its attacks

Take Down

30

This 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.

  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

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

  3. A strength

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

  4. A strength

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

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 816 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
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex41 of 4139DRI 19
Team Rocket's Spidops16 of 1616DRI 19
rocket-nidoking-ex8 of 228DRI 19
Mega Charizard X ex1 of 391DRI 19
mega-latias-ex1 of 81DRI 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.

Every set, with both of its dates