Pitch Black

Zarude

PBL056· Rare
Zarude PBL 56

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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
130
Type
Darkness
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
J
Set
Pitch Black (PBL)

Its attacks

Overhead Throw

30

This attack also does 30 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Shadowy Whip

100+

If your Benched Pokémon have any Shadowy Energy attached, this attack does 70 more damage.

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

    Toxtricity runs it in 1 of the 36 lists we have read, seen across 1 different tournaments.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

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

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,394 tournament lists we have read, 2,078 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 10, 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
Toxtricity1 of 361PBL 56

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.

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 11 Zarude cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Zarude card and its price