Budew
Budew arrived with Prismatic Evolutions on 17 January 2025. Here is what it does once it is on the table, and what it is worth right now.
What the card itself says
Every line in this block is copied straight off the card. Nothing rounded, nothing judged.
ITS ATTACKS
Printed exactly as it appears on the card.
What to make of it
Every line below comes from a number. Either it is printed on the card, or we counted it on tournament lists. You will not find a score here — you will find what matters when you decide whether to run it.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- It retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.
- Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce runs it in 22 of the 22 lists we have read, seen across 20 different tournaments.
- It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 1,351 tournament lists we have read, 377 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
- Mark H, and that is the letter the next rotation takes away. After that you will not be able to play it in Standard.
What it costs
We have no price to show you for this card today. The link below takes you where it sells, and you will see the day's numbers there.
Who plays it
We read tournament decklists one by one. The match is made on the set code printed at the bottom of the card, the one the player copied onto the list — never on the name, because two cards sometimes share one.
| Deck | Lists | Tournaments | Printing listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce | 22 of 22 | 20 | ASC 16 |
| Dragapult ex / Dusknoir | 22 of 22 | 20 | ASC 16 |
| Dragapult ex | 22 of 22 | 22 | ASC 16 |
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass | 22 of 22 | 22 | ASC 16 |
| Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex | 21 of 21 | 17 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Starmie ex / Dusknoir | 20 of 25 | 18 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Starmie ex / Froslass | 20 of 21 | 16 | ASC 16 |
| Froslass / Munkidori | 19 of 21 | 17 | ASC 16 |
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex | 18 of 23 | 18 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Greninja ex | 18 of 22 | 18 | ASC 16 |
| Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Arboliva ex | 18 of 24 | 15 | ASC 16 |
| Greninja ex | 13 of 23 | 12 | ASC 16 |
| Steven's Metagross ex | 11 of 22 | 11 | ASC 16 |
| N's Zoroark ex | 8 of 20 | 8 | ASC 16 |
| Ethan's Typhlosion | 7 of 24 | 7 | ASC 16 |
| mega-froslass-ex | 7 of 20 | 7 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Starmie ex | 6 of 24 | 5 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik | 4 of 23 | 4 | ASC 16 |
| doublade-por | 2 of 18 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Chandelure ex | 2 of 20 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Charizard X ex | 2 of 23 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Dragonite ex | 2 of 21 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Venusaur ex | 2 of 22 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex | 2 of 23 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity | 2 of 20 | 2 | ASC 16 |
| Beedrill ex | 1 of 20 | 1 | ASC 16 |
| Cynthia's Garchomp ex | 1 of 20 | 1 | ASC 16 |
| Mega Darkrai ex | 1 of 22 | 1 | ASC 16 |
| Metagross | 1 of 22 | 1 | ASC 16 |
| other | 1 of 22 | 1 | ASC 16 |
| Wailord ex | 1 of 20 | 1 | ASC 16 |
When it came out
Prismatic Evolutions landed here on 17 January 2025.
In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 December 2024, under the code SV8a. That is 42 days ahead of us.
Where to find it
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