Expedition Base Set

Alakazam

EX1· Holo Rare
Alakazam EX 1

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What the card itself says

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HP
100
Type
Psychic
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Number
1/165
Set
Expedition Base SetEX
Illustrated by
Hajime Kusajima

Its Ability

Psymimic

Once during your turn, instead of Alakazam's normal attack, you may choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon's attacks. Alakazam copies that attack including its Energy costs and anything else required in order to use that attack, such as discarding Energy cards. (No matter what type that Pokémon is, Alakazam's type is still Psychic.) This power can't be used if Alakazam is affected by a Special Condition.

Its attacks

Syncroblast

80

If Alakazam and the Defending Pokémon don't have the same number of Energy cards attached to them, this attack's base damage is 20 instead of 80.

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

    100 HP. Only 4 cards in Expedition Base Set carry more.

  2. A strength

    Syncroblast hits for 80 on 3 Energy. Nothing in Expedition Base Set hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

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

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,826 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

    It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Kadabra to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,826 tournament lists we have read, 2,208 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

Expedition Base Set landed here on 15 September 2002.

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 31 Alakazam cards on one page, priciest first.

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