MEP Black Star Promos

Articuno MEP 97

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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 97 there. Its illustration is signed Taira Akitsu.
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
120
Type
Water
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
J
Number
97
Set
MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by
Taira Akitsu

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

Its Ability

Frosty Flapping

Once during your turn, if you have Moltres and Zapdos in play, you may use this Ability. Attach a Basic Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon.

Its attacks

Hail

This attack does 30 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

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

    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.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  4. A strength

    Mark J. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  5. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,392 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.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Metal ×2. Against a Metal Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 724 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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

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.