Pitch Black
Wailord ex
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.
- HP
- 380
- Type
- Water
- Stage
- Stage 1
- Retreat cost
- 4
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- J
Its attacks
Surf
120Falling Down
270This Pokémon is now Asleep.
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
- 380 HP, and nothing in Pitch Black goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.
- Falling Down hits for 270 on 5 Energy. Nothing in Pitch Black hits harder for that price.
- Wailord ex runs it in 28 of the 28 lists we have read, seen across 24 different tournaments.
- Mark J. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Retreat cost 4. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
- 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.
- 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.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wailord ex | 28 of 28 | 24 | PBL 16 |
| Wailord ex | 20 of 20 | 18 | PBL 16 |
When it came out
Pitch Black landed here on 17 July 2026.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 22 May 2026, under the code M5. That is 56 days ahead of us.
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 Wailord cards on one page, priciest first.