MEP Black Star Promos

Alakazam

MEPFR9· Promo

You receive

€5.00

Your offer depends on the card’s printing, edition and condition. We check its condition when it arrives.

Versions of this card

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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: 9
Set: MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by: Aya Kusube

Its Ability

Psychic DrawPioche Psy

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.Une fois pendant votre tour, lorsque vous jouez ce Pokémon de votre main pour faire évoluer l'un de vos Pokémon, vous pouvez utiliser ce talent. Piochez 3 cartes.

Its attacks

Powerful HandMain Puissante

Place 2 damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon for each card in your hand.Placez 2 marqueurs de dégâts sur le Pokémon Actif de votre adversaire pour chaque carte dans votre main.

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 65 of the 65 lists we have read, seen across 32 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 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,313 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 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
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Alakazam / Dusknoir	65 of 65	32	MEG 56
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	38 of 38	38	MEG 56
Alakazam	28 of 28	19	MEG 56
Seaking	2 of 55	2	MEG 56
Lillie's Clefairy ex	1 of 34	1	MEG 56
Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce	1 of 66	1	MEG 56
Mega Chandelure ex	1 of 36	1	MEG 56

When it came out

MEP Black Star Promos landed here on 26 September 2025.

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.

See every Alakazam card and its price

MEP Black Star Promos

Alakazam

MEPFR9· Promo

You receive

€5.00

Your offer depends on the card’s printing, edition and condition. We check its condition when it arrives.

Versions of this card

Check the number and illustration against the card you are looking for.

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: 9
Set: MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by: Aya Kusube

Its Ability

Psychic DrawPioche Psy

Its attacks

Powerful HandMain Puissante

Place 2 damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon for each card in your hand.Placez 2 marqueurs de dégâts sur le Pokémon Actif de votre adversaire pour chaque carte dans votre main.

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 65 of the 65 lists we have read, seen across 32 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 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,313 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Alakazam / Dusknoir	65 of 65	32	MEG 56
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	38 of 38	38	MEG 56
Alakazam	28 of 28	19	MEG 56
Seaking	2 of 55	2	MEG 56
Lillie's Clefairy ex	1 of 34	1	MEG 56
Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce	1 of 66	1	MEG 56
Mega Chandelure ex	1 of 36	1	MEG 56

When it came out

MEP Black Star Promos landed here on 26 September 2025.

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.

See every Alakazam card and its price

MEP Black Star Promos

Alakazam

MEPFR9· Promo

You receive

€5.00

Your offer depends on the card’s printing, edition and condition. We check its condition when it arrives.

Versions of this card

Check the number and illustration against the card you are looking for.

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: 9
Set: MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by: Aya Kusube

Its Ability

Psychic DrawPioche Psy

Its attacks

Powerful HandMain Puissante

Place 2 damage counters on your opponent's Active Pokémon for each card in your hand.Placez 2 marqueurs de dégâts sur le Pokémon Actif de votre adversaire pour chaque carte dans votre main.

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 65 of the 65 lists we have read, seen across 32 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 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,313 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Alakazam / Dusknoir	65 of 65	32	MEG 56
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	38 of 38	38	MEG 56
Alakazam	28 of 28	19	MEG 56
Seaking	2 of 55	2	MEG 56
Lillie's Clefairy ex	1 of 34	1	MEG 56
Mega Lopunny ex / Dudunsparce	1 of 66	1	MEG 56
Mega Chandelure ex	1 of 36	1	MEG 56

When it came out

MEP Black Star Promos landed here on 26 September 2025.

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.

See every Alakazam card and its price