Skyridge

Ho-oh SK 149/144

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Ho-oh SK 149

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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 SK 149/144 there. Its illustration is signed Hajime Kusajima.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Skyridge set, released here on 12 May 2003.

When it came out

Skyridge landed here on 12 May 2003.

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
80
Type
Colorless
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
3
Weakness
×2
Number
149/144
Set
SkyridgeSK
Illustrated by
Hajime Kusajima

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Its Ability

Crystal Type

Whenever you attach a Fire, Water, or Lightning basic Energy card from your hand to Ho-oh, Ho-oh's type (color) becomes the same as that type of Energy until the end of the turn.

Its attacks

Holy Flame

20

Scalding Steam

40

Discard an Energy card attached to Ho-oh and flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned.

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

    It has an Ability, Crystal Type. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  2. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  3. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,427 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,427 tournament lists we have read, 2,185 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.

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 37 Ho Oh cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Ho Oh card and its price