Pokémon · EX
Relicanth
Emerald · #18 · Rare · 2005
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$2.39
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 18 / 107
- Release year
- 2005
- Rarity
- Rare
- HP
- 70
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Atsuko Nishida
- Pokédex #
- 369
- Series
- EX
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 20 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 Relicanth 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.
- Inflicts Sleep — they flip each turn to wake, so it’s a coin-flip lock: disruptive but unreliable on its own.
- Its main attack (Hypno Splash) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning 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.
How to beat Relicanth
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥35 damage one-shots it.
- On the receiving end of a condition? Retreat, switch, or evolve to wipe it — conditions only stick to the Active.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 1% of decks
- 1.06 copies on average · 809 decks
- Match win rate
- 46.0%
- -1.2 pts vs the 47.2% 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 Atsuko Nishida
This card was illustrated by Atsuko Nishida.
Building around Relicanth?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
CSharp Fin — 10
WCHypno Splash — 20
The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
Weakness:L×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
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 180 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 2026/07/04| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $1.95 | $2.80 | $35.80 | $2.39 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $39.54 | $55.87 | $99.99 | $39.46 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/07/01| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.65 |
| 7-day average | €1.32 |
| 30-day average | €1.16 |
| Low | €0.05 |
| Trend price | €1.24 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.25 |
| Reverse holo low | €2.00 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €7.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €5.13 |
| reverseHoloSell | €4.81 |
| averageSellPrice | €1.54 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €7.00 |
| Reverse holo trend | €6.08 |
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 $2.39; 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 "Emerald" in the EX series, released in 2005.
What rarity is Relicanth?
Relicanth is a Rare card in the Emerald set.
Other Relicanth printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
