How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read SSP 196/191 there. Its illustration is signed Whisker.

Which set does it come from?

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

Surging Sparks

Larvesta SSP 196/191

Name: Larvesta SSP 196
Brand: Pokémon

SSPFRIllustration rare

It adds to your sale

€1.45

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Versions of this card

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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 196/191 there. Its illustration is signed Whisker.
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: 70
Type: Fire
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: H
Number: 196/191
Set: Surging SparksSSPSet guide
Illustrated by: Whisker

Its attacks

RamCollision

Steady FirebreathingCrachage de Feu Régulier

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
Mega Camerupt ex runs it in 44 of the 52 lists we have read, seen across 42 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 H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
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.

Standard format: source checked on September 28, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

Every printing of Larvesta 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
Mega Camerupt ex	44 of 52	42	SSP 24

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 18 Larvesta cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Larvesta card and its price