Zarude MEP 88

Name: Zarude MEP 88
Brand: Pokémon

MEPPromo

Card language

Seller location

Zarude 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: 130
Type: Darkness
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 2
Weakness: ×2
Regulation mark: J
Number: 88
Set: MEP Black Star PromosMEPSet guide
Illustrated by: IKEDA Saki

Its attacks

Overhead Throw

This attack also does 30 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)

Shadowy Whip

100+

If your Benched Pokémon have any Shadowy Energy attached, this attack does 70 more damage.

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
Mega Gengar ex runs it in 2 of the 59 lists we have read, seen across 2 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 J. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.
Keep in mind
Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 8,065 tournament lists we have read, 5,066 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on November 7, 2026. TCGdex

Every version of this card

Look at the number printed at the bottom of your card. That is what tells you which version you are holding. Tap yours to open its page.

Zarude MEP 88MEP Black Star PromosPromoThe one you are looking atPromo
Zarude PBL 56/84Pitch BlackRareRare

Who plays it

Every printing of Zarude 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 Gengar ex	2 of 59	2	PBL 56
Toxtricity (Phantasmal Flames)	2 of 77	2	PBL 56

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 11 Zarude cards on one page, priciest first.

View all Zarude cards

Zarude MEP 88

The market for this printing

When it came out