Pokémon · Sword & Shield
Relicanth
Darkness Ablaze · #40 · Uncommon · 2020
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From
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Market reference
$0.03
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 40 / 201
- Release year
- 2020
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 90
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Regulation mark
- D
- Illustrator
- MAHOU
- Pokédex #
- 369
- Series
- Sword & Shield
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Search / Tutor
- Damage efficiency
- 40 damage
- 20 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 Relicanth plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- Not a main attacker — its job is search / tutoring. Run it as a consistency hub and protect it, because opponents will target the engine.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning attacker doing ≥45 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 2% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 1 copy.
How to beat Relicanth
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥45 damage one-shots it.
- KO it to choke their draw / search engine.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 2% of decks
- 1.06 copies on average · 761 decks
- Match win rate
- 46.9%
- -0.3 pts vs the 47.3% 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.
More by MAHOU
This card was illustrated by MAHOU.
Building around Relicanth?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"The reason it hasn't changed at all in a hundred million years is that it's apparently already a perfect life-form."
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WCSurf — 40
Weakness:L×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Recent tournament results
View calendar →Tournaments from the past 30 days where Relicanth was legal.
Tournament play
This printing of Relicanth has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Relicanth — Temporal Forces
Played in 253 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 2026/07/16| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.01 | $0.18 | $25.05 | $0.03 | $0.02 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.05 | $0.25 | $19.98 | $0.24 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/24| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.04 |
| 7-day average | €0.09 |
| 30-day average | €0.06 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.08 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.02 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.49 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.25 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.25 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.06 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.19 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.29 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Relicanth is real?
Relicanth 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 Relicanth worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Relicanth is $0.03; 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 Relicanth from?
Relicanth is from the Pokémon set "Darkness Ablaze" in the Sword & Shield series, released in 2020.
What rarity is Relicanth?
Relicanth is a Uncommon card in the Darkness Ablaze set.
Other Relicanth printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
