Evolving Skies

Cresselia

EVS228· Secret Rare
Cresselia EVS 228

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
120
Type
Psychic
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Resistance
-30
Regulation mark
E
Number
228/203
Set
Evolving SkiesEVS
Illustrated by
Toyste Beach

Its attacks

Crescent Glow

Search your deck for a Psychic Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Pokémon. If you go second and it's your first turn, instead search for up to 3 Psychic Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck.

Photon Laser

30+

If you have at least 5 Energy in play, this attack does 90 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 is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,826 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.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,826 tournament lists we have read, 2,321 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

  5. Keep in mind

    Mark E. It is not among the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J. A legal reprint may still provide an exception.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 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.

When it came out

Evolving Skies landed here on 27 August 2021.

Every set, with both of its dates

The other cards of this Pokémon

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