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Iron Crown ex

Iron Crown ex

Iron Crown ex arrived with Temporal Forces on 22 March 2024. 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.

HP220
TypePsychic
StageBasic
Retreat cost2
WeaknessDarkness ×2
ResistanceFighting -30
Regulation markH
SetTemporal Forces (TEF)

ITS ABILITY

Cobalt CommandAttacks used by your Future Pokémon, except any Iron Crown ex, do 20 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

ITS ATTACKS

Twin ShotelsPsychic + Colorless + ColorlessThis attack does 50 damage to 2 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance, or by any effects on those Pokémon.

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 has an Ability, Cobalt Command. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
  • Raging Bolt ex runs it in 10 of the 23 lists we have read, seen across 10 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

  • It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes two Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
  • Weakness Darkness ×2. Against a Darkness Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 1,351 tournament lists we have read, 834 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

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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.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Raging Bolt ex10 of 2310TEF 81
Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex3 of 243TEF 81
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom1 of 221TEF 81

When it came out

Temporal Forces landed here on 22 March 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 26 January 2024, under the code SV5K + SV5M. That is 56 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

Where to find it

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