How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read ASC 19/217 there. Its illustration is signed Taiga Kasai.

Which set does it come from?

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

Ascended Heroes

Team Rocket's Spidops ASC 19/217

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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 19/217 there. Its illustration is signed Taiga Kasai.
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.

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: 130
Type: Grass
Stage: Stage 1
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: I
Number: 19/217
Set: Ascended HeroesASCSet guide
Illustrated by: Taiga Kasai

Its Ability

Charging Upチャージアップ

Once during your turn, you may attach a Basic Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon.自分の番に1回使える。自分のトラッシュから基本エネルギーを1枚選び、このポケモンにつける。

Its attacks

Rocket Rushロケットラッシュ

30×

This attack does 30 damage for each of your Team Rocket's Pokémon in play.自分の場の「ロケット団のポケモン」の数×30ダメージ。

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, Charging Up. 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 78 of the 78 lists we have read, seen across 68 different tournaments.
A strength
Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 1,244 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 Spidops 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	78 of 78	68	DRI 20
Team Rocket's Spidops	27 of 27	25	DRI 20
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex	8 of 24	8	DRI 20
Mega Charizard X ex	1 of 53	1	DRI 20
Mega Latias ex	1 of 8	1	DRI 20

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 8 Spidops cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Spidops card and its price