Phantasmal Flames

Flygon

PFLFR53· Rare
Flygon PFL 53

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What the card itself says

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

HP
150
Type
Fighting
Stage
Stage 2
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
I
Number
53/94
Set
Phantasmal FlamesPFLSet guide
Illustrated by
Jerky

Its Ability

Sandy FlappingBattements Sableux

Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may use this Ability. You may also use this Ability if this Pokémon is in the Active Spot and is Knocked Out by damage from an attack from your opponent's Pokémon. Discard the top 2 cards of your opponent's deck.Une fois pendant votre tour, lorsque vous jouez ce Pokémon de votre main pour faire évoluer l'un de vos Pokémon, vous pouvez utiliser ce talent. Vous pouvez également utiliser ce talent si ce Pokémon est sur le Poste Actif et est mis K.O. par les dégâts d'une attaque de l'un des Pokémon de votre adversaire. Défaussez les 2 cartes du dessus du deck de votre adversaire.

Its attacks

Cutting WindVent Glacial

130

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

  3. A strength

    Dudunsparce runs it in 1 of the 29 lists we have read, seen across 1 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

    Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  5. Keep in mind

    It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Vibrava to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,350 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 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
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Dudunsparce1 of 291PFL 53

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

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 27 Flygon cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Flygon card and its price