Ascended Heroes

Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex

ASC281· Special illustration rare
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex ASC 281

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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

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.

  1. 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.

  2. A strength

    Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex runs it in 54 of the 54 lists we have read, seen across 50 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

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

  4. A strength

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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Keep in mind

    Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 2,313 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 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
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex54 of 5450DRI 81
Team Rocket's Spidops22 of 2520DRI 81
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex8 of 228DRI 81

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

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