Team Rocket Returns

Dark Houndoom

Name: Dark Houndoom TR 37
Brand: Pokémon

TRFR37· Uncommon

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What the card itself says

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

HP: 70
Type: FireDarkness
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 37/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Nakaoka

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

Its Ability

Fire Breath

Once during your turn (before your attack), if Dark Houndoom is your Active Pokémon, you may flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon (choose 1 if there are 2) is now Burned. This power can't be used if Dark Houndoom is affected by a Special Condition.

Its attacks

Fire Payback

40+

If you have less Benched Pokémon than your opponent, this attack does 40 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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Fire Breath. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 4,426 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.
Keep in mind
Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 4,426 tournament lists we have read, 1,770 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.

When it came out

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 45 Houndoom cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Houndoom card and its price

What the card itself says

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

HP: 70
Type: FireDarkness
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 37/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Nakaoka

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

Its Ability

Fire Breath

Its attacks

Fire Payback

40+

If you have less Benched Pokémon than your opponent, this attack does 40 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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Fire Breath. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 4,426 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.
Keep in mind
Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 4,426 tournament lists we have read, 1,770 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

What the card itself says

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

HP: 70
Type: FireDarkness
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 37/109
Set: Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by: Nakaoka

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

Its Ability

Fire Breath

Its attacks

Fire Payback

40+

If you have less Benched Pokémon than your opponent, this attack does 40 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.

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.
A strength
It has an Ability, Fire Breath. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
Keep in mind
None of the 4,426 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.
Keep in mind
Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 4,426 tournament lists we have read, 1,770 run at least one Pokémon of that type.