Every Blacephalon card

The short version

Blacephalon has seven printings in Pokémon TCG Pocket, across four expansions — the earliest in Extradimensional Crisis and the most recent in Promo A. It is a Basic Fire-type Pokémon printed at between 100 and 140 HP, weak to Water, with a retreat cost of 2. They run to seven rarities — one Common, one Uncommon, one Double Rare, one Art Rare, one Super Rare, one Special Art Rare and one Shiny Super Rare. The hardest to pull is the Shiny Super Rare from Ruler of the Skies, at about 1 in 479 packs, or 1,350 Pack Points to buy outright. Nine hunts in ten end inside 1,103 packs, which is about 1.5 years at the two free packs a day the game gives you. The printings come out of the Vol. 9, Ruler of the Skies, Gardevoir and Extradimensional packs. The most recent is Blacephalon #076, from an expansion that shipped in October 2024. That printing attacks with Beat Punk for 130. The card’s own words: “It slithers toward people. Then, without warning, it triggers the explosion of its own head. It’s apparently one kind of Ultra Beast.” It has been drawn by five artists, 5ban Graphics more than anyone else with three cards.