Garchomp
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Garchomp is a Art Rare card from the Space-Time Smackdown set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.
Attacks
Ability
You must discard a card from your hand in order to use this Ability. Once during your turn, you may draw a card.
Which pack does this card drop from?
Three ways to get this card
Odds recalculated from the official per-slot pull-rate table for pack Palkia: the chance of this rarity in each slot divided by the 12 cards of this rarity in that pack.
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Garchomp?
Same evolution line
Cards stacked in the same column are PARALLEL evolutions from the same parent card — they do not evolve one into the next.
Is Garchomp played in any meta deck?
Garchomp is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. Chase it for the art and the collection, not for the ladder — spend Pack Points on core cards first, then come back for this one.
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Reading Garchomp's stat block
Garchomp is a Art Rare Stage 2 card from the Space-Time Smackdown set with 140 HP. Every STAT on this page comes straight from the card record; the expected pack count further down is a statistical estimate recomputed from the pull table, not a promise.
Its attacks:
- Dragon Claw — 100 damage · cost Water + Fighting
Read the energy costs together, not just the damage. A card with two attacks usually trades a cheap, weak opener for a pricier attack that does the real work, and the question that decides whether it belongs in a deck is whether you can actually pay for the big one on curve.
Which pack actually drops it
Rare cards are not spread evenly across a set. Each one is locked to specific packs, and opening the wrong pack from the right set means this card never shows up no matter how many you buy. Garchomp drops from Palkia.
Odds are set per slot, not per card — and the slot layout differs from one pack type to another, so never carry one pack's formula over to another. The Palkia pack gives 5 cards per opening — slot 1 is always Common · slot 2 is always Common · slot 3 is always Common · slot 4: 90.00% is Uncommon · slot 5: 60.00% is Uncommon. For Garchomp that works out to 0.21% in slot 4 · 0.86% in slot 5, which is 1.08% for any single pack, or about 93 packs before you can expect to see one.
Three ways to own it
Pulling is only the first path, and it is the one that can betray you: 1.08% per pack means the expected 93 packs is an average, not a promise.
The second path removes luck entirely. Every pack you open awards 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table) regardless of what comes out of it, and those points accumulate until you can redeem this exact card outright. Garchomp costs 400 PP — no pulls, no gambling, just the count.
The third path is trading, which spends Shinedust rather than Pack Points, and whether it is open to you depends entirely on the card's rarity. For Garchomp: It can be traded for 4,000 Shinedust.
Evolution line and other printings
Garchomp evolves from Gabite. The full line is: Gible → Gabite → Garchomp · Garchomp ex.
Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.
Where this card stands on the ladder
Garchomp is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. Chase it for the art and the collection, not for the ladder — spend Pack Points on core cards first, then come back for this one.
The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.
Frequently asked questions
Which pack should I open to get Garchomp?
Garchomp drops from Palkia. Opening a different pack from the same set will not produce it, because pack variants inside one set carry completely different rare-card pools.
Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Garchomp?
About 93 packs on average. That comes from the per-slot pull table rather than a single blended number: 0.21% in slot 4 · 0.86% in slot 5, which is 1.08% for any one pack. It is an expected value — a statistical estimate, not a guarantee: half of all players will need more.
Can I trade for Garchomp instead of pulling it?
It can be traded for 4,000 Shinedust. Trading uses Shinedust, and whether a card is tradeable at all is fixed by its rarity tier — Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards can never be traded under any circumstance, so for those two tiers Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways in.