Ascended Heroes

Team Rocket's Dugtrio ASC 239/217

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Team Rocket's Dugtrio ASC 239

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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 ASC 239/217 there. Its illustration is signed Whisker.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Ascended Heroes set, released here on 30 January 2026.

When it came out

Ascended Heroes landed here on 30 January 2026.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 28 November 2025, under the code M2a. That is 63 days ahead of us.

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What the card itself says

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

HP
100
Type
Fighting
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
I
Number
239/217
Set
Ascended HeroesASCSet guide
Illustrated by
Whisker

Its Ability

Holesあなぼこ

Whenever your opponent's Active Pokémon moves to the Bench during their turn, place 2 damage counters on that Pokémon.このポケモンがいるかぎり、相手の番に、相手のバトルポケモンがベンチにもどるたび、そのポケモンにダメカンを2個のせる。

Its attacks

Mud Shotマッドショット

50

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

  3. A strength

    Team Rocket's Nidoking ex runs it in 3 of the 24 lists we have read, seen across 3 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

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

  5. 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 Team Rocket's Dugtrio 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
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex3 of 243ASC 101
Team Rocket's Spidops2 of 272ASC 101

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 31 Dugtrio cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Dugtrio card and its price