Pokémon · Scarlet & Violet
Poltchageist
Twilight Masquerade · #21 · Common · 2024
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Market reference
$0.17
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 21 / 226
- Release year
- 2024
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 40
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Regulation mark
- H
- Illustrator
- Souichirou Gunjima
- Series
- Scarlet & Violet
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Recovery
- Damage efficiency
- 30 damage
- 30 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 Poltchageist 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 Grass Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Grass type, weak to Fire ×2 — a Fire attacker doing ≥20 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 3 copies.
- Currently Standard-legal — usable in the main rotating format.
How to beat Poltchageist
- Exploit its Fire weakness — ≥20 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 2% of decks
- 3.3 copies on average · 975 decks
- Match win rate
- 44.9%
- -2.2 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 Souichirou Gunjima
This card was illustrated by Souichirou Gunjima.
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Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"Poltchageist looks like a regional form of Sinistea, but it was recently discovered that the two Pokémon are entirely unrelated."
GTea Server
Put a Basic Grass Energy card from your discard pile into your hand.
GSurprise Attack — 30
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.
Weakness:R×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Upcoming events
View calendar →Tournaments and releases relevant to Poltchageist or Twilight Masquerade.
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Aug 11, 2026
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Aug 12, 2026
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Aug 12, 2026
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Recent tournament results
View calendar →Tournaments from the past 30 days where Poltchageist was legal.
CHALLENGE OF DOOM! THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
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🏛💫 Card Temple Weekly Battles #71
today
🇧🇷 Hit League #4 | TCG Live
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Sunny's Weekly #268 Stand Up Comedy!
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Tournament play
This printing of Poltchageist has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Poltchageist — Pitch Black
Played in 883 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 2026/07/10| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.01 | $0.17 | $19.98 | $0.17 | $0.08 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.05 | $0.25 | $19.98 | $0.25 | $0.10 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/05/12| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.02 |
| 7-day average | €0.03 |
| 30-day average | €0.05 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.04 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.02 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.03 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.08 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.12 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.05 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.11 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.04 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Poltchageist is real?
Poltchageist 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 Poltchageist worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Poltchageist is $0.17; 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 Poltchageist from?
Poltchageist is from the Pokémon set "Twilight Masquerade" in the Scarlet & Violet series, released in 2024.
What rarity is Poltchageist?
Poltchageist is a Common card in the Twilight Masquerade set.
Other Poltchageist printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
