30th Celebration

Zapdos

30C055· Common
Zapdos 30C 55

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
120
Type
Lightning
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
55/128
Set
30th Celebration30CSet guide
Illustrated by
HYOGONOSUKE

Its Ability

Flash-Pop Flapping

Once during your turn, if you have Moltres and Articuno in play, you may use this Ability. Attach a Basic Lightning Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon.

Its attacks

Thundering Lightning

210

This Pokémon also does 60 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

    It has an Ability, Flash-Pop Flapping. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. A strength

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

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,649 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,649 tournament lists we have read, 843 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

When it came out

30th Celebration landed here on 16 September 2026.

Every set, with both of its dates