Blacephalon

PROMO-A-076 · Promo A
Common R Fire HP 100 Basic
W Weak to Water (+20 damage) Retreat cost C C
R R C Beat Punk 130

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About Blacephalon — Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

+ Beat Punk deals 130 damage for 3 energy (43.3 damage/energy) — about 102% above the average for Basic cards.

+ It's a Basic Pokémon — can attack from turn one, no evolving needed.

Weaknesses

- Retreat cost is 2 energy — fairly high, easy to get stuck Active under pressure.

- Weak to Water (+20 damage) — avoid facing that type's decks.

Promo A set · released 10/30/2024
About Blacephalon

Blacephalon is a Common card from the Promo A set. Check its attacks, retreat cost and which pack it drops from below.

Attacks

R R C Beat Punk 130

This Pokémon also does 70 damage to itself.

Pokédex entry

It slithers toward people. Then, without warning, it triggers the explosion of its own head. It's apparently one kind of Ultra Beast.

Illustrated by Hasuno

Which pack does this card drop from?

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Is Blacephalon played in any meta deck?

Is it worth chasing

This card is not in any openable pack: Blacephalon is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.

Same type in this set

Card name by language

EN Blacephalon JA ズガドーン KO 두파팡 ZH-TW 砰頭小丑

Reading Blacephalon's stat block

R Fire HP 100 Retreat cost 2

Blacephalon is a Common Basic card from the Promo A set with 100 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 weakness is Water, which is the fastest way for an opponent to remove it in a straight trade, and its retreat cost is 2 — that is what you pay in energy to swap it out mid-turn, and it is the number people forget until the card is stranded in the active spot.

Its attacks:

  • Beat Punk — 130 damage · cost Fire + Fire + Colorless — This Pokémon also does 70 damage to itself.

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

Vol. 9

This card is not in any openable pack: Blacephalon is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.

Evolution line and other printings

Blacephalon does not evolve from or into anything — it stands alone.

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

This card is not in any openable pack: Blacephalon is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.

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 Blacephalon?

This card is not in any openable pack: Blacephalon is a PROMO card that only comes from events, login gifts or in-game rewards. No amount of pack opening will produce it — do not burn currency on that door.

 Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Blacephalon?

For Blacephalon the "open packs" route simply DOES NOT EXIST: no openable pack contains it, so any pull rate or expected pack count would be meaningless here.

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