Pokémon · EX
Illumise
Sandstorm · #38 · Uncommon · 2003
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$3.33
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 38 / 100
- Release year
- 2003
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 60
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Kyoko Umemoto
- Pokédex #
- 314
- Series
- EX
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 20 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 Illumise 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.
- Inflicts Sleep — they flip each turn to wake, so it’s a coin-flip lock: disruptive but unreliable on its own.
- Inflicts Confusion — they must flip to attack (tails fails and deals 30 to themselves). Soft, coin-flip disruption.
- Its main attack (Pester) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Grass Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Grass type, weak to Fire ×2 — a Fire attacker doing ≥30 effectively one-shots it.
How to beat Illumise
- Exploit its Fire weakness — ≥30 damage one-shots it.
- On the receiving end of a condition? Retreat, switch, or evolve to wipe it — conditions only stick to the Active.
Building around Illumise?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
Poké-Body: Glowing Screen
As long as Volbeat is in play, any damage done to Illumise by attacks from Fighting Pokémon and Darkness Pokémon is reduced by 30. You can't reduce more than 30 damage even if there is more than 1 Volbeat in play.
CChaotic Noise
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused. If tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
GCPester — 20+
If the Defending Pokémon is affected by a Special Condition, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.
Weakness:R×2
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 2026/07/04| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $3.46 | $6.48 | $63.00 | $3.33 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $6.75 | $42.00 | $60.00 | $6.08 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/06/22| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €1.42 |
| 7-day average | €1.13 |
| 30-day average | €1.53 |
| Low | €0.30 |
| Trend price | €1.54 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.49 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.80 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €7.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €3.43 |
| reverseHoloSell | €3.00 |
| averageSellPrice | €1.52 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €3.48 |
| Reverse holo trend | €3.61 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Illumise is real?
Illumise 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 Illumise worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Illumise is $3.33; 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 Illumise from?
Illumise is from the Pokémon set "Sandstorm" in the EX series, released in 2003.
What rarity is Illumise?
Illumise is a Uncommon card in the Sandstorm set.
Other Illumise printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
