How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read SVP 126/225 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

Palafin ex SVP 126/225

SVPJPPromo

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Versions of this card

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SVP 126SVP Black Star PromosPromoSelected printingYou receiveYour price is waiting under another language.
TWM 61Twilight MasqueradeDouble rareYou receiveWe are not buying this printing at the moment.
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PRE 151Prismatic EvolutionsSpecial illustration rareYou receiveWe are not buying this printing at the moment.

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 126/225 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: 340
Type: Water
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: H
Number: 126/225
Set: SVP Black Star PromosSVPSet guide
Illustrated by: PLANETA Mochizuki

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

Its Ability

Hero's Spirit

Put this Pokémon into play only with the effect of Palafin's Zero to Hero Ability.

Its attacks

Giga Impact

250

During your next turn, this Pokémon can't attack.

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
340 HP, and nothing in Prismatic Evolutions goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.
A strength
Giga Impact hits for 250 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Prismatic Evolutions hits harder for that price.
A strength
It has an Ability, Hero's Spirit. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Palafin ex runs it in 42 of the 42 lists we have read, seen across 38 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark H. 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 Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 439 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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

Who plays it

Every printing of Palafin 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
Palafin ex	42 of 42	38	TWM 61

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 12 Palafin cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Palafin card and its price