How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read SVP 193/225 there. Its illustration is signed PLANETA Mochizuki.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the SVP Black Star Promos set, released here on 31 March 2023.

SVP Black Star Promos

Hop's Zacian ex SVP 193/225

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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 SVP 193/225 there. Its illustration is signed PLANETA Mochizuki.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the SVP Black Star Promos set, released here on 31 March 2023.

When it came out

SVP Black Star Promos landed here on 31 March 2023.

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: 230
Type: Metal
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: I
Number: 193/225
Set: SVP Black Star PromosSVPSet guide
Illustrated by: PLANETA Mochizuki

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

Its attacks

Insta-Strike

This attack also does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Brave Slash

240

During your next turn, this Pokémon can't use Brave Slash.

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
Hop's Zacian ex runs it in 48 of the 48 lists we have read, seen across 48 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
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
Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 1,244 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

Every printing of Hop's Zacian ex plays the same way at a tournament. So the decks below count them all together, and the last column shows the one players wrote on their list.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Hop's Zacian ex	48 of 48	48	JTG 111
Hop's Trevenant	12 of 63	11	JTG 111

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 Zacian cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Zacian card and its price