How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read PFL 27/94 there. Its illustration is signed Hideki Ishikawa.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Phantasmal Flames set, released here on 14 November 2025.

Phantasmal Flames

Piplup PFL 27/94

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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 PFL 27/94 there. Its illustration is signed Hideki Ishikawa.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Phantasmal Flames set, released here on 14 November 2025.

When it came out

Phantasmal Flames landed here on 14 November 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 September 2025, under the code M2. That is 49 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: Water
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: I
Number: 27/94
Set: Phantasmal FlamesPFLSet guide
Illustrated by: Hideki Ishikawa

Its attacks

Call for SupportAppel au Renfort

Search your deck for a Supporter card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.Cherchez dans votre deck une carte Supporter, montrez-la, puis ajoutez-la à votre main. Mélangez ensuite votre deck.

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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
Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
A strength
Steven's Metagross ex runs it in 52 of the 64 lists we have read, seen across 51 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 I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Weakness Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,384 tournament lists we have read, 438 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 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
Steven's Metagross ex	52 of 64	51	PFL 27
Metagross	12 of 45	12	PFL 27
Mega Excadrill ex	11 of 56	11	PFL 27
Archaludon ex	2 of 30	2	PFL 27
Toucannon	2 of 51	2	PFL 27

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