Pokémon · Diamond & Pearl
Delibird
Great Encounters · #36 · Uncommon · 2008
Listings
No active listings
From
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Market reference
$0.74
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 36 / 106
- Release year
- 2008
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 70
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Masakazu Fukuda
- Pokédex #
- 225
- Series
- Diamond & Pearl
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Search / Tutor
- Damage efficiency
- 20 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 Delibird 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 Metal ×2 — a Metal 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.
- Seen in 0% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 2 copies.
How to beat Delibird
- Exploit its Metal weakness — ≥35 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
- 0% of decks
- 2.13 copies on average · 53 decks
- Match win rate
- 41.9%
- -5.2 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 Masakazu Fukuda
This card was illustrated by Masakazu Fukuda.
Building around Delibird?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"It carries food rolled up in its tail. It has the habit of sharing food with people lost in mountains."
Present
Flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for any 1 card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
WIce Ball — 20
Weakness:M+20
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
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 | $0.37 | $0.74 | $19.98 | $0.74 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.50 | $2.69 | $49.00 | $4.32 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/06/11| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.05 |
| 7-day average | €0.19 |
| 30-day average | €0.22 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.18 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.09 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.35 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.93 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €1.20 |
| reverseHoloSell | €1.43 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.22 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €1.09 |
| Reverse holo trend | €1.43 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Delibird is real?
Delibird 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 Delibird worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Delibird is $0.74; 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 Delibird from?
Delibird is from the Pokémon set "Great Encounters" in the Diamond & Pearl series, released in 2008.
What rarity is Delibird?
Delibird is a Uncommon card in the Great Encounters set.
Other Delibird printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
