Skull Fossil
“Skull Fossil” (A2-144) is a Trainer card from the Space-Time Smackdown set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Item, and its effect is: Play this card as if it were a 40-HP Basic {C} Pokémon. At any time during your turn, you may discard this card from play. This card can't retreat.
Use this Skull Fossil page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Skull Fossil to your collection.
Skull Fossil Card Details
Illustrator·Toyste Beach
Effect
Play this card as if it were a 40-HP Basic {C} Pokémon. At any time during your turn, you may discard this card from play. This card can't retreat.
Tournament intelligence
Skull Fossil in tournament decks
This card appears in 5 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Current tournament decks
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos Tyrantrum
Last seen Aug 9, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos
Last seen Aug 17, 2026100.0% card inclusion - Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos Archeops
Last seen Aug 31, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos Snorlax
Last seen Sep 1, 2026100.0% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Skull Fossil
These cards most often appear beside Skull Fossil in current tournament decklists. Rankings use shared archetypes, samples, inclusion rate, and meta share.
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 90.9%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 92.3%
Rare Candy
A3-144
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 82.4%
Rampardos
A2-089
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Cranidos
A2-088
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 90.9%
