Does the condition of the card change its price?

Yes. We check it when your card arrives, and here is what we pay in each condition. Like new: €30.00. Played a little: €10.00. Worn: €5.00.

How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read ASC 281/217 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Ascended Heroes set, released here on 30 January 2026.

We don’t yet have enough observations of this card to assess its pace. At least 4 copies have sold since 8 September. From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

Ascended Heroes

Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex ASC 281/217

ASCKOSpecial illustration rare

You receive

€30.00

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

How much is your Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex worth?

A copy in Korean, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €30.00 today. That’s the same price as a week ago.

Today · You get

€30.00

The same price as on 21 September

€30.00

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28 September	€30.00

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Market activity

Limited observations

We don’t yet have enough observations of this card to assess its pace.

Copies gone since 8 September: at least 4
For sale on 28 September: 27
For sale on 8 September: 28

From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

Versions of this card

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What you might be wondering about this card

How much do we pay for Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex ASC 281/217?: A copy in Korean, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €30.00 today.
Does the condition of the card change its price?: Yes. We check it when your card arrives, and here is what we pay in each condition. Like new: €30.00. Played a little: €10.00. Worn: €5.00.
How can you tell your card is this one?: Look at the bottom of your card: you should read ASC 281/217 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Ascended Heroes set, released here on 30 January 2026.
Does it sell fast?: We don’t yet have enough observations of this card to assess its pace. At least 4 copies have sold since 8 September. From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

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.

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: 280
Type: Psychic
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Resistance: -30
Regulation mark: I
Number: 281/217
Set: Ascended HeroesASCSet guide
Illustrated by: Mitsuhiro Arita

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

Its Ability

Power Saver

This Pokémon can't attack unless you have 4 or more Team Rocket's Pokémon in play.

Its attacks

Erasure Ball

160+

You may discard up to 2 Energy from your Benched Pokémon. This attack does 60 more damage for each card you discarded in this way.

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
It has an Ability, Power Saver. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex runs it in 79 of the 79 lists we have read, seen across 69 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
Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.
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 Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,427 tournament lists we have read, 3,370 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 28, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

Every printing of Team Rocket's Mewtwo 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
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex	79 of 79	69	DRI 81
Team Rocket's Spidops	23 of 27	21	DRI 81
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex	8 of 24	8	DRI 81
Steven's Metagross ex	3 of 64	3	DRI 81

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 87 Mewtwo cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Mewtwo card and its price