How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read JTG 171/159 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Journey Together set, released here on 28 March 2025.

Journey Together

Volcanion ex JTG 171/159

JTGKOUltra Rare

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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 JTG 171/159 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Journey Together set, released here on 28 March 2025.

When it came out

Journey Together landed here on 28 March 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 24 January 2025, under the code SV9. 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: 220
Type: Fire
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 3
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: I
Number: 171/159
Set: Journey TogetherJTGSet guide
Illustrated by: 5ban Graphics

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

Its Ability

Scalding Steam

Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is in the Active Spot, you may make your opponent's Active Pokémon Burned.

Its attacks

Scorching Cyclone

160

Move an Energy from this Pokémon to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

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, Scalding Steam. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
A strength
Mega Darkrai ex runs it in 43 of the 54 lists we have read, seen across 39 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 Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,384 tournament lists we have read, 2,171 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 27, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

Every printing of Volcanion 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
Mega Darkrai ex	43 of 54	39	JTG 31
Mega Dragonite ex	9 of 33	8	JTG 31
Toxtricity (Phantasmal Flames)	5 of 56	5	JTG 31
Mega Camerupt ex	4 of 52	4	JTG 31
Mega Dragonite ex / Eelektrik	1 of 6	1	JTG 31
Eelektrik	1 of 37	1	JTG 31

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 22 Volcanion cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Volcanion card and its price