Pokémon · Diamond & Pearl
Wailmer
Great Encounters · #58 · Uncommon · 2008
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Market reference
$0.64
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 58 / 106
- Release year
- 2008
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 90
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Wailord
- Retreat cost
- 3 energy
- Illustrator
- Satoshi Ohta
- Pokédex #
- 320
- Series
- Diamond & Pearl
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Bench Damage
- Damage efficiency
- 30 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 Wailmer 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 (Ram) 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 ≥45 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Retreat cost 3 — gets stranded Active if gusted; run Switch / Escape Rope or a Float Stone-style Tool.
How to beat Wailmer
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥45 damage one-shots it.
- Trap it Active — 3 retreat means it can’t escape without help.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 3.61 copies on average · 102 decks
- Match win rate
- 39.0%
- -8.2 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.
Building around Wailmer?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"On sunny days, it lands on beaches to bounce like a ball and play. It spouts water from its nose."
WCTsunami — 10
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
CCCRam — 30
Weakness:L+20
Retreat cost:CCC
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Wailmer has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Wailmer — Pitch Black
Played in 99 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 | $0.60 | $19.98 | $0.64 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $1.83 | $3.89 | $45.00 | $5.00 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/19| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.28 |
| 7-day average | €0.23 |
| 30-day average | €0.30 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.25 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.09 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.15 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.15 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.88 |
| reverseHoloSell | €0.59 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.34 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €1.09 |
| Reverse holo trend | €1.10 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Wailmer is real?
Wailmer 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 Wailmer worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Wailmer is $0.64; 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 Wailmer from?
Wailmer is from the Pokémon set "Great Encounters" in the Diamond & Pearl series, released in 2008.
What rarity is Wailmer?
Wailmer is a Uncommon card in the Great Encounters set.
Other Wailmer printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
