How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read PFL 70/94 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Phantasmal Flames set, released here on 14 November 2025.

Phantasmal Flames

Empoleon ex PFL 70/94

PFLKODouble rare

We are not buying this printing at the moment.

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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 PFL 70/94 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Phantasmal Flames set, released here on 14 November 2025.

When it came out

Phantasmal Flames landed here on 14 November 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 September 2025, under the code M2. That is 49 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: 320
Type: Metal
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: I
Number: 70/94
Set: Phantasmal FlamesPFLSet guide
Illustrated by: 5ban Graphics

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

Its Ability

Emperor's Stance

Prevent all effects of attacks used by your opponent's Pokémon done to this Pokémon. (Damage is not an effect.)

Its attacks

Iron Feathers

210

During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes 60 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).

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
320 HP. Only 4 cards in Phantasmal Flames carry more.
A strength
Iron Feathers hits for 210 on 3 Energy. Nothing in Phantasmal Flames hits harder for that price.
A strength
It has an Ability, Emperor's Stance. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Steven's Metagross ex runs it in 52 of the 64 lists we have read, seen across 51 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
Keep in mind
It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Prinplup to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,384 tournament lists we have read, 1,241 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
Steven's Metagross ex	52 of 64	51	PFL 70
Metagross	12 of 45	12	PFL 70
Mega Excadrill ex	10 of 56	10	PFL 70
Archaludon ex	2 of 30	2	PFL 70
Toucannon	2 of 51	2	PFL 70

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 Empoleon cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Empoleon card and its price