How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read MEP 3 there. Its illustration is signed cochi8i.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the MEP Black Star Promos set, released here on 26 September 2025.

MEP Black Star Promos

Alakazam MEP 3

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?: Look at the bottom of your card: you should read MEP 3 there. Its illustration is signed cochi8i.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the MEP Black Star Promos set, released here on 26 September 2025.

When it came out

MEP Black Star Promos landed here on 26 September 2025.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

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

HP: 140
Type: Psychic
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: I
Number: 3
Set: MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by: cochi8i

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Its Ability

Psychic Draw

Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may use this Ability. Draw 3 cards.

Its attacks

Powerful Hand

Place 2 damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon for each card in your hand.

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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Psychic Draw. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Alakazam / Dusknoir runs it in 88 of the 88 lists we have read, seen across 50 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
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.
Keep in mind
Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 3,349 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

Every printing of Alakazam plays the same way at a tournament. So the decks below count them all together, and the last column shows the one players wrote on their list.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Alakazam / Dusknoir	88 of 88	50	MEG 56
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	63 of 63	56	MEG 56
Alakazam	35 of 35	25	MEG 56
Doublade	2 of 43	2	MEG 56
Seaking	2 of 75	2	MEG 56
Lillie's Clefairy ex	1 of 53	1	MEG 56
Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce	1 of 87	1	MEG 56
Mega Chandelure ex	1 of 62	1	MEG 56

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.

See every Alakazam card and its price