Zapdos MEP 98

Name: Zapdos MEP 98
Brand: Pokémon

MEPPromo

Card languageEnglish

Seller location

Zapdos arrived in MEP Black Star Promos on 26 September 2025.

The market for this printing

Finish unspecified

No quotation can be assigned to this reference until its finish is identified. Card language: English. Sellers: European Union. Asking prices, excluding shipping and import charges.

When it came out

MEP Black Star Promos landed here on 26 September 2025.

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: 120
Type: Lightning
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: J
Number: 98
Set: MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by: SIE NANAHARA

Its Ability

Flash-Pop Flapping

Once during your turn, if you have Moltres and Articuno in play, you may use this Ability. Attach a Basic Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon.

Its attacks

Thundering Lightning

210

This Pokémon also does 60 damage to itself.

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
It has an Ability, Flash-Pop Flapping. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
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 J. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
None of the 7,282 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 7,282 tournament lists we have read, 1,696 run at least one Pokémon of that type.