Team Rocket Returns

Rocket's Zapdos ex

TRJP106· Rare
Rocket's Zapdos ex TR 106

You receive

€460.00

Your card’s condition

Your offer depends on the card’s printing, edition and condition. We check its condition when it arrives.

Versions of this card

Check the number and illustration against the card you are looking for.

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
100
Type
Darkness
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
106/109
Set
Team Rocket ReturnsTR
Illustrated by
Ryo Ueda

Its Ability

Darkness Guard闇のガード

As long as Rocket's Zapdos ex has any Darkness Energy attached to it, damage done to Rocket's Zapdos ex by an opponent's attack is reduced by 10 (after applying Weakness and Resistance)."RocketのZapdos Exがそれに付着した暗闇のエネルギーを持っている限り、RocketのZapdos Exに与えられたダメージは、相手の攻撃によって10削減されます（脱力と抵抗を適用した後）。

Its attacks

Plasmaプラズマ

10

Search your discard pile for a Lightning Energy card and attach it to Rocket's Zapdos ex."廃棄物のエネルギーカードを廃棄することを検索し、RocketのZapdos Exに取り付けます。

Raging Thunder荒れ狂う雷

60

This attack does 30 damage to 1 of your Pokémon.この攻撃は、ポケモンの1つに30ダメージを与えます。

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

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,826 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Lightning ×2. Against a Lightning Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,826 tournament lists we have read, 340 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.

When it came out

Team Rocket Returns landed here on 1 November 2004.

Every set, with both of its dates

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 44 Zapdos cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Zapdos card and its price