Hidden Legends

Castform HL 30/101

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Castform HL 30

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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 HL 30/101 there. Its illustration is signed Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Hidden Legends set, released here on 1 June 2004.

When it came out

Hidden Legends landed here on 1 June 2004.

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
60
Type
Colorless
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
30/101
Set
Hidden LegendsHL
Illustrated by
Sumiyoshi Kizuki

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Its Ability

Temperamental Weather

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for Sunny Castform, Rain Castform, or Snow-cloud Castform and switch it with Castform. (Any cards attached to Castform, damage counters, Special Conditions, and effects on it are now on the new Pokémon.) Shuffle Castform back into your deck. You can't use more than 1 Temperamental Weather Poké-Power each turn.

Its attacks

Forecast

Search your deck for a Stadium card and play it. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Extra Ball

20+

If the Defending Pokémon is Pokémon-ex, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.

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, Temperamental Weather. 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. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,620 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,620 tournament lists we have read, 1,261 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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.

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 22 Castform cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Castform card and its price