How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read BLK 23/86 there. Its illustration is signed Gemi.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Black Bolt set, released here on 17 July 2025.

Black Bolt

Carracosta BLK 23/86

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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 BLK 23/86 there. Its illustration is signed Gemi.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Black Bolt set, released here on 17 July 2025.

When it came out

Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 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: 180
Type: Water
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: I
Number: 23/86
Set: Black BoltBLKSet guide
Illustrated by: Gemi

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

Its Ability

Mighty Shell

Prevent all damage from and effects of attacks done to this Pokémon by your opponent's Pokémon that have any Special Energy attached.

Its attacks

Big Bite

150

During your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokémon can't retreat.

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
It has an Ability, Mighty Shell. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 2 of the 32 lists we have read, seen across 2 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
Keep in mind
It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Tirtouga to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
Keep in mind
Weakness Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,427 tournament lists we have read, 441 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 28, 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
Mega Froslass ex / Dudunsparce	2 of 32	2	BLK 23

The other cards of this Pokémon

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