How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read SVI 257/198 there.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Scarlet & Violet set, released here on 31 March 2023.

Scarlet & Violet

Basic Lightning Energy SVI 257/198

SVIFRHyper rare

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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 SVI 257/198 there.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Scarlet & Violet set, released here on 31 March 2023.

When it came out

Scarlet & Violet landed here on 31 March 2023.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 20 January 2023, under the code SV1S + SV1V. That is 70 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.

Type: Lightning
Number: 257/198
Set: Scarlet & VioletSVISet guide

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
Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex runs it in 14 of the 87 lists we have read, seen across 12 different tournaments.
A strength
No Weakness printed on the card. Nothing doubles up the damage it takes.

Who plays it

Every printing of Basic Lightning Energy 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
Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex	14 of 87	12	MEE 12
Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik	14 of 71	11	MEE 12
Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	10 of 68	9	MEE 12
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom	5 of 42	5	MEE 12
Blissey ex	4 of 25	4	MEE 12
Eelektrik	4 of 37	4	MEE 12
Flareon ex	3 of 11	3	MEE 12
Iono's Bellibolt ex	3 of 41	3	MEE 12
Joltik	3 of 36	3	MEE 12
Mega Dragonite ex	3 of 36	3	MEE 12
Mew ex	3 of 11	3	MEE 12
Toucannon	3 of 58	3	MEE 12
Doublade	2 of 48	2	MEE 12
Flareon ex / Noctowl	2 of 38	2	MEE 12
Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant	2 of 67	2	MEE 12
Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex	2 of 17	2	MEE 12
Cinccino ex	1 of 56	1	MEE 12
Iron Thorns ex	1 of 30	1	MEE 12
Mega Froslass ex	1 of 46	1	MEE 12
Seaking	1 of 77	1	MEE 12
Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone	1 of 42	1	MEE 12