Pokémon · Scarlet & Violet
Sandile
Black Bolt · #135 · Illustration Rare · 2025
Listings
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Market reference
$18.41
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 135 / 172
- Release year
- 2025
- Rarity
- Illustration Rare
- HP
- 70
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Krokorok
- Retreat cost
- 2 energy
- Regulation mark
- I
- Illustrator
- Fujimoto Gold
- Pokédex #
- 551
- Series
- Scarlet & Violet
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Disruption
- Damage efficiency
- 10 damage
- 10 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Sandile 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.
- Needs Darkness Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Darkness 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.
- Currently Standard-legal — usable in the main rotating format.
How to beat Sandile
- Exploit its Grass weakness — ≥35 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 3.6 copies on average · 15 decks
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.
More by Fujimoto Gold
This card was illustrated by Fujimoto Gold.
Building around Sandile?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"They live buried in the sands of the desert. The sun-warmed sands prevent their body temperature from dropping."
DTighten Up — 10
Your opponent discards a card from their hand.
Weakness:G×2
Retreat cost:CC
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
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Recent tournament results
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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 | $17.00 | $20.18 | $94.25 | $18.41 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2025/11/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €6.33 |
| 7-day average | €6.00 |
| 30-day average | €6.18 |
| Low | €3.67 |
| Trend price | €5.77 |
| Low (excellent+) | €3.67 |
| averageSellPrice | €6.23 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Sandile is real?
Sandile 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 Sandile worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Sandile is $18.41; 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 Sandile from?
Sandile is from the Pokémon set "Black Bolt" in the Scarlet & Violet series, released in 2025.
What rarity is Sandile?
Sandile is a Illustration Rare card in the Black Bolt set.
Other Sandile printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
