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Houndoom
Battle Styles 179/163 • secret-rare
- Set
- Battle Styles
- Number
- 179/163
- Rarity
- Rare Secret
- Released
- 2021
- Energy type
- darkness energy
- Finish
- Secret rare
- Market price
- $27.11
- Artist
- PLANETA Mochizuki
What it does
Once during your turn, you may search your deck for a Single Strike Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Single Strike Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, put 2 damage counters on that Pokémon.
Identifiable by its eerie howls, people a long time ago thought it was the grim reaper and feared it.
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Where it came from
Released in the 2021 Sword & Shield: Battle Styles expansion, this Houndoom card serves as a Secret Rare variant that highlights the 'Single Strike' mechanic introduced in this set. The expansion was designed to introduce a strategic duality to the Pokémon Trading Card Game, categorizing cards into either Single Strike or Rapid Strike archetypes, with Houndoom functioning as a critical engine piece for accelerating energy to Single Strike attackers.
The card features an intricate, full-art gold-leaf finish that departs from the standard illustrative style of the set. While the base artwork for the card was handled by illustrators within the Pokémon TCG design team, this specific secret-rare iteration was crafted to appeal to collectors seeking premium aesthetics, marking it as a chase card for players who value both competitive utility and high-end visual presentation within the Sword & Shield era.
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