How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read SSP 130/191 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Surging Sparks set, released here on 8 November 2024.

Surging Sparks

Archaludon ex SSP 130/191

SSPKODouble rare

We are not buying this printing at the moment.

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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 SSP 130/191 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Surging Sparks set, released here on 8 November 2024.

When it came out

Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 days ahead of us.

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: 300
Type: Metal
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: H
Number: 130/191
Set: Surging SparksSSPSet guide
Illustrated by: 5ban Graphics

The Korean text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Assemble Alloy

When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may attach up to 2 Basic Energy cards from your discard pile to your Pokémon in any way you like.

Its attacks

Metal Defender

220

During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon has no Weakness.

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
300 HP. Only 3 cards in Surging Sparks carry more.
A strength
It has an Ability, Assemble Alloy. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 35 of the 35 lists we have read, seen across 35 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
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.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 1,244 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 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
Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce	35 of 35	35	SSP 130
Archaludon ex	30 of 30	23	SSP 130
Archaludon ex / N's Zoroark ex	27 of 27	24	SSP 130
Hop's Zacian ex	3 of 48	3	SSP 130
Mega Excadrill ex	2 of 56	2	SSP 130

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 7 Archaludon cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Archaludon card and its price