Destined Rivals

Yanmega ex

DRIEN228· Special illustration rare
Yanmega ex DRI 228

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€20.00

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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
280
Type
Grass
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
I
Set
Destined Rivals (DRI)

Its Ability

Buzzing Boost

Once during your turn, when this Pokémon moves from your Bench to the Active Spot, you may search your deck for up to 3 Basic Energy cards and attach them to this Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck.

Its attacks

Jet Cyclone

210

Move 3 Energy from this Pokémon to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

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

    It has an Ability, Buzzing Boost. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. A strength

    yanmega-ex runs it in 25 of the 25 lists we have read, seen across 21 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

    Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

Standard format: source checked on September 8, 2026. TCGdex

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
yanmega-ex25 of 2521DRI 3
Mega Venusaur ex2 of 302DRI 3
Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium1 of 271DRI 3

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 21 Yanmega cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Yanmega card and its price