Pokémon · Scarlet & Violet
Drilbur
Black Bolt · #124 · Illustration Rare · 2025
Listings
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Market reference
$9.10
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 124 / 172
- Release year
- 2025
- Rarity
- Illustration Rare
- HP
- 70
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Excadrill
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Regulation mark
- I
- Illustrator
- Koji Nakata
- Pokédex #
- 529
- Series
- Scarlet & Violet
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Attacker
- Damage efficiency
- 30 damage
- 15 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Strategy & play
How Drilbur plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- A Basic — hits the board turn 1 with no evolution tax.
- Its main attack (Corkscrew Punch) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Fighting Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Fighting type, weak to Grass ×2 — a Grass attacker doing ≥35 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 4% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 3 copies.
How to beat Drilbur
- Exploit its Grass weakness — ≥35 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 4% of decks
- 3.25 copies on average · 3216 decks
- Match win rate
- 45.8%
- -1.3 pts vs the 47.1% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
Budget alternatives
Cheaper cards that fill a similar role in Standard decks. Reference prices — most-played option first.
Illustrated by Koji Nakata
Building around Drilbur?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"It can dig through the ground at a speed of 30 mph. It could give a car running aboveground a good race."
FMud-Slap — 10
FFCorkscrew Punch — 30
Weakness:G×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Upcoming events
View calendar →Tournaments and releases relevant to Drilbur or Black Bolt.
Full Bench Fridays PTCGL Cash Event $10 #12
Sep 4, 2026
Amyverse Webcam Wonders #26 💙 Cash Prize!
Sep 4, 2026
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Sep 5, 2026
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Sep 5, 2026
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Recent tournament results
View calendar →Tournaments from the past 30 days where Drilbur was legal.
Nightshades Friday Funday
today
Nightshades Expanded Fun
today
Friendly Online Tournament #2
today
SEASAC World Championships Qualifiers | $15 PRIZE
today
Dark Pulse Fridays Casuals 09/04
today
Oceania Open! | Season 3 - Week 10
today
Tournament play
This printing of Drilbur has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Drilbur — Pitch Black
Played in 1,747 recent decks
Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/09| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holofoil | $5.50 | $10.82 | $109.10 | $9.10 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2025/11/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €3.63 |
| 7-day average | €4.25 |
| 30-day average | €4.32 |
| Low | €2.20 |
| Trend price | €4.14 |
| Low (excellent+) | €2.20 |
| averageSellPrice | €4.28 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Drilbur is real?
Drilbur is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Drilbur worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Drilbur is $9.10; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Drilbur from?
Drilbur is from the Pokémon set "Black Bolt" in the Scarlet & Violet series, released in 2025.
What rarity is Drilbur?
Drilbur is a Illustration Rare card in the Black Bolt set.
Other Drilbur printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
