Pokémon · Diamond & Pearl
Relicanth
Great Encounters · #51 · Uncommon · 2008
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$0.71
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 51 / 106
- Release year
- 2008
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 70
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Pokédex #
- 369
- Series
- Diamond & Pearl
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Search / Tutor
- Damage efficiency
- 30 damage
- 15 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.
- Not a main attacker — its job is search / tutoring. Run it as a consistency hub and protect it, because opponents will target the engine.
- Inflicts Sleep — they flip each turn to wake, so it’s a coin-flip lock: disruptive but unreliable on its own.
- Attacks on any Energy (Colorless cost) — splashable into any deck regardless of type.
- 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.
- Seen in 1% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 1 copy.
How to beat Relicanth
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥35 damage one-shots it.
- KO it to choke their draw / search engine.
- 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 · 768 decks
- Match win rate
- 47.2%
- -0.1 pts vs the 47.3% 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 Ken Sugimori
This card was illustrated by Ken Sugimori.
Building around Relicanth?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"A rare Pokémon discovered during a deep-sea exploration. It has not changed in over 100 million years."
Primal Calling
Search your deck for up to 3 Trainer Cards that have Fossil in their names, show them to your opponent, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
CCSleep Swirl — 30
Both Relicanth and the Defending Pokémon are now Asleep.
Weakness:L+20
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 245 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 2026/07/03| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.20 | $0.70 | $19.98 | $0.71 | $0.82 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $4.00 | $8.36 | $49.00 | $3.42 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.15 |
| 7-day average | €0.12 |
| 30-day average | €0.18 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.19 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.04 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.20 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €2.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.84 |
| reverseHoloSell | €1.11 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.24 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.93 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.83 |
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 $0.71; 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 "Great Encounters" in the Diamond & Pearl series, released in 2008.
What rarity is Relicanth?
Relicanth is a Uncommon card in the Great Encounters set.
Other Relicanth printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
