SM Black Star Promos

Malamar SMP SM117/248

SMPKOPromo
Malamar SMP SM117

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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 SMP SM117/248 there. Its illustration is signed Shin Nagasawa.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the SM Black Star Promos set, released here on 3 February 2017.

When it came out

SM Black Star Promos landed here on 3 February 2017.

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
90
Type
Psychic
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Number
SM117/248
Set
SM Black Star PromosSMP
Illustrated by
Shin Nagasawa

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Its Ability

Psychic Recharge

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Psychic Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

Its attacks

Psychic Sphere

60

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

  2. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,461 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.

  3. Keep in mind

    Weakness Psychic ×2. Against a Psychic Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,461 tournament lists we have read, 3,253 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 22 Malamar cards on one page, priciest first.

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