Surging Sparks

Vibrava

SSP206· Illustration rare
Vibrava SSP 206

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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
90
Type
Fighting
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
H

Its attacks

Screech

During your next turn, the Defending Pokémon takes 50 more damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

Cutting Wind

50

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.
  • Flygon ex runs it in 9 of the 10 lists we have read, seen across 9 different tournaments.

WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

  • Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 2,021 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
  • Mark H, and that is the letter the next rotation takes away. After that you will not be able to play it in Standard.

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
Flygon ex9 of 109SSP 105
Dudunsparce1 of 251SSP 105

When it came out

Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 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 20 Vibrava cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Vibrava card and its price