Temporal Forces

Relicanth TEF 173/162

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Relicanth TEF 173

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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 173/162 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.
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
Fighting
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
H
Number
173/162
Set
Temporal ForcesTEFSet guide
Illustrated by
Mitsuhiro Arita

Its Ability

Memory Diveきおくにもぐる

Each of your evolved Pokémon can use any attack from its previous Evolutions. (You still need the necessary Energy to use each attack.)このポケモンがいるかぎり、自分の進化しているポケモン全員は、進化前に持っていたワザを、すべて使える。［ワザを使うためのエネルギーは必要。］

Its attacks

Razor Finひれカッター

30

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

    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.

  2. A strength

    It has an Ability, Memory Dive. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. A strength

    Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 30 of the 35 lists we have read, seen across 30 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  5. A strength

    Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 3,412 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

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

Who plays it

Every printing of Relicanth 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
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Archaludon ex / Dudunsparce30 of 3530TEF 84
Archaludon ex28 of 3022TEF 84
Archaludon ex / N's Zoroark ex27 of 2724TEF 84
Decidueye ex25 of 3225TEF 84
Feraligatr13 of 1613TEF 84
Mega Feraligatr ex9 of 289TEF 84
Cynthia's Garchomp ex6 of 666TEF 84
Hop's Trevenant1 of 631TEF 84
Iron Thorns ex1 of 301TEF 84
Mega Diancie ex1 of 121TEF 84
Mega Froslass ex1 of 431TEF 84
Mega Venusaur ex1 of 691TEF 84

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 16 Relicanth cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Relicanth card and its price