How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read SSP 223/191 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Surging Sparks set, released here on 8 November 2024.

Surging Sparks

Hydreigon ex SSP 223/191

SSPJPUltra Rare

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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 SSP 223/191 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Surging Sparks set, released here on 8 November 2024.

When it came out

Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 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: 330
Type: Darkness
Stage: Stage 2
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: H
Number: 223/191
Set: Surging SparksSSPSet guide
Illustrated by: 5ban Graphics

Its attacks

Crashing Headbuttクラッシュヘッズ

200

Discard the top 3 cards of your opponent's deck.相手の山札を上から3枚トラッシュする。

Obsidianオブシディアン

130

This attack also does 130 damage to 2 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)相手のベンチポケモン2匹にも、それぞれ130ダメージ。［ベンチは弱点・抵抗力を計算しない。］

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
330 HP. Only 1 cards in Surging Sparks carry more.
A strength
Hydreigon ex runs it in 65 of the 65 lists we have read, seen across 59 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
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.
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 Zweilous to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
Keep in mind
Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,384 tournament lists we have read, 3,405 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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

Who plays it

Every printing of Hydreigon 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
Hydreigon ex	65 of 65	59	SSP 119
Flareon ex	1 of 8	1	SSP 119
Flareon ex / Noctowl	1 of 38	1	SSP 119

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 25 Hydreigon cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Hydreigon card and its price