Real tournament list
Mega Sharpedo ex Gyarados
EnergyWater
Magikarp
Pokemon
“Magikarp” (A1a-017) is a Pokémon card from the Mythical Island set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Key details include 30 HP, Water, and Leap Out. Card description: An underpowered, pathetic Pokémon. It may jump high on rare occasions but never more than seven feet.
Use this Magikarp page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Magikarp to your collection.
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Magikarp Card Details
Illustrator·Mitsuhiro AritaHP
30
TypesWater
Magikarp Attacks
- Leap Out
Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Weaknesses
Retreat Cost
How to get Magikarp
Deck snapshot
Where Magikarp is played
Observed use in sampled public tournaments. These figures are not ladder usage, a card win rate, or a recommendation to play a particular number of copies. Versions with the same effect are combined. Examples retain their source artwork.
- Tournament usage
- 0.5%
- 15 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 73.3% of lists using it
Decks that use “Magikarp”
Small sample; interpret with care.
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Magikarp versions and alt art
3 matching cards
Daily tournament data
Build with Magikarp
Seen in 0.5% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.5%
- 15 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 73.3% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.73
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 1
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Magikarp”
- Mega Sharpedo ex Gyarados
- 1 copy
- 23.1% (3)
- 2 copies
- 76.9% (10)
View real lists
- Inclusion
- 50.0%
- Meta share
- 0.9%
Real 2-copy listReal 1-copy list
- 1× Magikarp
- 1× Magikarp
- 2× Gyarados
- 2× Mantyke
- 1× Chien-Pao ex
- 2× Carvanha
- 2× Mega Sharpedo ex
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Lisia
- 2× Wallace
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Magikarp in tournament decks
This card appears in 1 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
- Archived meta snapshot
Mega Gyarados ex Mega Sharpedo ex
Last seen Sep 5, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Milotic ex Mega Gyarados ex
Last seen Aug 3, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Milotic ex Suicune ex
Last seen Sep 10, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Hisuian Zoroark ex Gyarados
Last seen Aug 3, 202666.7% card inclusion
Other cards with Leap Out, like Magikarp
4 matching cards
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Magikarp
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Magikarp. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Gyarados
A4-045
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Mantyke
A4a-023
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Lisia
B1-226
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Chien-Pao ex
B2a-037
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Wallace
B3b-068
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Carvanha
B4-034
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
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