Pokémon · Scarlet & Violet
Team Rocket's Articuno
Destined Rivals · #51 · Rare · 2025
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Market reference
$0.36
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 51 / 244
- Release year
- 2025
- Rarity
- Rare
- HP
- 120
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Regulation mark
- I
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Pokédex #
- 144
- Series
- Scarlet & Violet
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Attacker
- Damage efficiency
- 60 damage
- 20 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Strategy & play
How Team Rocket's Articuno 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.
- Its main attack (Dark Frost) needs 3 Energy — a turn-3 swing on manual attachment — you’ll want Energy acceleration to power it up on time.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning attacker doing ≥60 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 8% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 2 copies.
How to beat Team Rocket's Articuno
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥60 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 8% of decks
- 1.68 copies on average · 235 decks
- Match win rate
- 47.3%
- -0.5 pts vs the 47.8% 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.
Team Rocket's Tarountula
in 34% of decks · 79 seen
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex
in 33% of decks · 78 seen
Team Rocket's Spidops
in 34% of decks · 79 seen
Team Rocket's Kangaskhan ex
in 17% of decks · 40 seen
Team Rocket's Ariana
in 75% of decks · 177 seen
Team Rocket's Giovanni
in 75% of decks · 177 seen
Team Rocket's Murkrow
in 42% of decks · 98 seen
Team Rocket's Honchkrow
in 41% of decks · 96 seen
More by Mitsuhiro Arita
This card was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Building around Team Rocket's Articuno?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"This Pokémon can control ice at will. Articuno is said to live in snowy mountains riddled with permafrost."
Ability: Repelling Veil
Prevent all effects of attacks used by your opponent's Pokémon done to your Basic Team Rocket's Pokémon. (Existing effects are not removed. Damage is not an effect.)
WCCDark Frost — 60+
If this Pokémon has any Team Rocket's Energy attached, this attack does 60 more damage.
Weakness:L×2
Resistance:F-30
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Upcoming events
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Tournament play
Decklist data from the past 30 days of competitive Pokémon TCG tournaments (sourced from Limitless TCG).
Recent decks
1,843
ran Team Rocket's Articuno
Tournaments scanned
265
past 30 days
Competitive note
Currently a meta staple.
217 top-cut decks · best finish 1st
Top decks running Team Rocket's Articuno
- 1Rocket's Mewtwo205 decks
- 2Rocket's Honchkrow186 decks
- 3Starmie Dusknoir30 decks
- 4Other16 decks
- 5Crustle14 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 2026/06/20| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holofoil | $0.01 | $0.36 | $30.00 | $0.36 | $0.46 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.10 | $0.48 | $19.98 | $0.43 | $0.65 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/04| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.13 |
| 7-day average | €0.13 |
| 30-day average | €0.11 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.12 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.02 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.15 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.40 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.34 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.11 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.34 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.26 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Team Rocket's Articuno is real?
Team Rocket's Articuno 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 Team Rocket's Articuno worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Team Rocket's Articuno is $0.36; 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 Team Rocket's Articuno from?
Team Rocket's Articuno is from the Pokémon set "Destined Rivals" in the Scarlet & Violet series, released in 2025.
What rarity is Team Rocket's Articuno?
Team Rocket's Articuno is a Rare card in the Destined Rivals set.
