How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read TEF 114/162 there. Its illustration is signed Nobuhiro Imagawa.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Temporal Forces set, released here on 22 March 2024.

Temporal Forces

Metang TEF 114/162

TEFFRCommon

We are not buying this printing at the moment.

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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 TEF 114/162 there. Its illustration is signed Nobuhiro Imagawa.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Temporal Forces set, released here on 22 March 2024.

When it came out

Temporal Forces landed here on 22 March 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 January 2024, under the code SV5K + SV5M. That is 56 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: 100
Type: Metal
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: H
Number: 114/162
Set: Temporal ForcesTEFSet guide
Illustrated by: Nobuhiro Imagawa

Its Ability

Metal MakerCréation de Métal

Once during your turn, you may look at the top 4 cards of your deck and attach any number of Basic Energy cards you find there to your Pokémon in any way you like. Shuffle the other cards and put them on the bottom of your deck.Une fois pendant votre tour, vous pouvez regarder les 4 cartes du dessus de votre deck, puis attacher le nombre voulu de cartes Énergie de base que vous y trouvez à vos Pokémon, comme il vous plaît. Mélangez les autres cartes et placez-les en dessous de votre deck.

Its attacks

BeamRayon

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
It has an Ability, Metal Maker. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Mega Excadrill ex runs it in 56 of the 56 lists we have read, seen across 47 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,417 tournament lists we have read, 1,251 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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

Who plays it

These decks really played this card at a tournament. We spot it by the little set code printed at the bottom, the one players copy onto their list — two cards sometimes share a name, the code never lies.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Mega Excadrill ex	56 of 56	47	TEF 114
Cinccino ex	48 of 49	41	TEF 114
Metagross	45 of 45	43	TEF 114
Scizor ex	13 of 13	13	TEF 114
Doublade	7 of 44	7	TEF 114
Archaludon ex	4 of 30	4	TEF 114
Hop's Zacian ex	2 of 48	2	TEF 114

The other cards of this Pokémon

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