Black Bolt
Zekrom ex
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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
- 230
- Type
- Lightning
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Regulation mark
- I
Its attacks
Slash
50Voltage Burst
130+This attack does 50 more damage for each Prize card your opponent has taken. This Pokémon also does 30 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.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- 230 HP. Only 2 cards in Black Bolt carry more.
- eelektrik-blk runs it in 3 of the 20 lists we have read, seen across 3 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
- Mark I. The next rotation takes mark H away, so this one stays tournament legal.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- 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 Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 760 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| eelektrik-blk | 3 of 20 | 3 | BLK 34 |
| Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik | 1 of 34 | 1 | BLK 34 |
When it came out
Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 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 28 Zekrom cards on one page, priciest first.