MEP Black Star Promos

Toxtricity

MEP17· Promo
Toxtricity MEP 17

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What the card itself says

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

HP
140
Type
Darkness
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
2
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
I
Number
17
Set
MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by
Krgc

Its Ability

Sinister Surge

Once during your turn, you may use this Ability. Search your deck for a Basic Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, place 2 damage counters on that Pokémon.

Its attacks

Gentle Slap

100

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

  2. A strength

    Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity runs it in 70 of the 70 lists we have read, seen across 64 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

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

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,810 tournament lists we have read, 875 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
Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity70 of 7064PFL 68
Toxtricity (Phantasmal Flames)38 of 3834PFL 68
Toxtricity33 of 3332PFL 68
Gengar ex16 of 389PFL 68
Mega Gengar ex11 of 2411PFL 68
Mega Darkrai ex8 of 288PFL 68
Toxtricity / Brute Bonnet6 of 66PFL 68
Hydreigon ex2 of 462PFL 68
Team Rocket's Nidoking ex2 of 222PFL 68
Mega Absol ex1 of 221PFL 68
Mega Venusaur ex1 of 381PFL 68

When it came out

MEP Black Star Promos landed here on 26 September 2025.

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 23 Toxtricity cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Toxtricity card and its price