Pokémon · Diamond & Pearl
Snover
Stormfront · #74 · Common · 2008
Listings
No active listings
From
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Market reference
$0.31
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 74 / 106
- Release year
- 2008
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 50
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Abomasnow
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Pokédex #
- 459
- Series
- Diamond & Pearl
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- 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 Snover 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.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Fire ×2 — a Fire attacker doing ≥25 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 0% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 3 copies.
How to beat Snover
- Exploit its Fire weakness — ≥25 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
- 0% of decks
- 3.14 copies on average · 150 decks
- Match win rate
- 40.1%
- -6.9 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.
More by Kagemaru Himeno
This card was illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno.
Building around Snover?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"It lives on snowy mountains. Having had little contact with humans, it is boldly inquisitive."
CHide
Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all effects of an attack, including damage, done to Snover during your opponent's next turn.
WPowder Snow — 10
The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
Weakness:R+10
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
Decklist data from the past 30 days of competitive Pokémon TCG tournaments (sourced from Limitless TCG).
Recent decks
1
ran Snover
Tournaments scanned
302
past 30 days
Competitive note
Occasional competitive appearance.
Top decks running Snover
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 2026/07/03| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.07 | $0.29 | $2.31 | $0.31 | $0.23 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $1.06 | $2.48 | $53.00 | $1.65 | $1.62 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/01| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.11 |
| 7-day average | €0.11 |
| 30-day average | €0.18 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.08 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.15 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €1.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.96 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.75 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.09 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.84 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.64 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Snover is real?
Snover 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 Snover worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Snover is $0.31; 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 Snover from?
Snover is from the Pokémon set "Stormfront" in the Diamond & Pearl series, released in 2008.
What rarity is Snover?
Snover is a Common card in the Stormfront set.
Other Snover printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
