How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read BLK 12/86 there. Its illustration is signed Natsumi Yoshida.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Black Bolt set, released here on 17 July 2025.

Black Bolt

Victini BLK 12/86

BLKFRRare

We are not buying this printing at the moment.

Versions of this card

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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 BLK 12/86 there. Its illustration is signed Natsumi Yoshida.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Black Bolt set, released here on 17 July 2025.

When it came out

Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 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: 80
Type: Fire
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: I
Number: 12/86
Set: Black BoltBLKSet guide
Illustrated by: Natsumi Yoshida

Its attacks

V-ForceForce-V

120

If you have 4 or fewer Benched Pokémon, this attack does nothing.Si vous avez 4 Pokémon de Banc ou moins, cette attaque ne fait rien.

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
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.
A strength
V-Force hits for 120 on 2 Energy. Nothing in Black Bolt hits harder for that price.
A strength
Ceruledge ex runs it in 1 of the 51 lists we have read, seen across 1 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
Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 2,174 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 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
Deck	Lists	Tournaments	Printing listed
Ceruledge ex	1 of 51	1	BLK 12

The other cards of this Pokémon

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