Pokémon · EX
Blaziken
Holon Phantoms · #20 · Rare · 2006
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$5.25
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 20 / 111
- Release year
- 2006
- Rarity
- Rare
- HP
- 100
- Subtype
- Stage 2
- Evolves from
- Combusken
- Retreat cost
- 2 energy
- Illustrator
- Hiromichi Sugiyama
- Pokédex #
- 257
- Series
- EX
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 40 damage
- 30 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Stage 2
- Needs its evolution line or Rare Candy to set up
Also does
Strategy & play
How Blaziken plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- Inflicts Burn — 20 damage between turns, then a coin flip to clear it. Chip damage with a coin-flip tail.
- Its main attack (Blaze Kick) needs 3 Energy — a turn-3 swing on manual attachment — you’ll want Energy acceleration to power it up on time.
- Needs Fire Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Fire type, weak to Water ×2 — a Water attacker doing ≥50 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- A Stage 2 — without Rare Candy you lose ~2 turns setting it up, and it’s gust-bait before it’s online (you must draw Combusken first).
How to beat Blaziken
- Exploit its Water weakness — ≥50 damage one-shots it.
- Gust it before the evolution is set up.
- 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
- 1.01 copies on average · 546 decks
- Match win rate
- 49.6%
- +2.3 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.
Budget alternatives
Cheaper cards that fill a similar role in Standard decks. Reference prices — most-played option first.
More by Hiromichi Sugiyama
This card was illustrated by Hiromichi Sugiyama.
Building around Blaziken?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
RCombustion — 30
RRCBlaze Kick — 40+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 40 damage plus 20 more damage. If tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned.
Weakness:W×2
Retreat cost:CC
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Blaziken has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Blaziken ex — Journey Together
Played in 1,697 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 2026/07/04| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $2.19 | $6.75 | $50.80 | $5.25 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $70.00 | $399.99 | $899.90 | $123.24 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/07/01| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €8.00 |
| 7-day average | €2.49 |
| 30-day average | €2.21 |
| Low | €0.10 |
| Trend price | €3.18 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.90 |
| Reverse holo low | €1.99 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €9.99 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €15.86 |
| reverseHoloSell | €15.75 |
| averageSellPrice | €2.06 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €18.24 |
| Reverse holo trend | €12.53 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Blaziken is real?
Blaziken 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 Blaziken worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Blaziken is $5.25; 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 Blaziken from?
Blaziken is from the Pokémon set "Holon Phantoms" in the EX series, released in 2006.
What rarity is Blaziken?
Blaziken is a Rare card in the Holon Phantoms set.
Other Blaziken printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
