Team Rocket Returns

Dark Muk

TR16· Rare
Dark Muk TR 16

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What the card itself says

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

HP
70
Type
GrassDarkness
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
16/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Mitsuhiro Arita

Its Ability

Sticky Goo

As long as Dark Muk is your Active Pokémon, your opponent pays ColorlessColorless more to retreat his or her Active Pokémon."

Its attacks

Slimy Water

10×

Does 10 damage times the number of Colorless Energy in the Defending Pokémon's Retreat Cost (after applying effects to the Retreat Cost)."

Acidic Poison

10

The Defending Pokémon is now Burned and Poisoned.

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, Sticky Goo. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 4,126 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 Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 4,126 tournament lists we have read, 2,400 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 32 Muk cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Muk card and its price