How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read BLK 40/86 there. Its illustration is signed Apios.

Which set does it come from?

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

Black Bolt

Elgyem BLK 40/86

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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 40/86 there. Its illustration is signed Apios.
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: 60
Type: Psychic
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: I
Number: 40/86
Set: Black BoltBLKSet guide
Illustrated by: Apios

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

Its attacks

Slight Shift

Move an Energy from 1 of your opponent's Pokémon to another of their Pokémon.

Beam

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
Mega Chandelure ex runs it in 53 of the 62 lists we have read, seen across 45 different tournaments.
A strength
It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
A strength
Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 3,349 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 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 Chandelure ex	53 of 62	45	BLK 40
Dudunsparce	30 of 30	28	BLK 40
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	11 of 63	10	BLK 40
Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce	3 of 72	3	BLK 40
Alakazam	2 of 35	2	BLK 40
Froslass / Munkidori	2 of 51	2	BLK 40
Mega Lopunny ex	1 of 24	1	BLK 40

The other cards of this Pokémon

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