Real tournament list
Team Rocket's Weezing ex Zoroark ex
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Nihilego
Pokemon
“Nihilego” (A4b-247) is a Pokémon card from the Deluxe Pack: ex set in Pokémon TCG Pocket, built around the Ability “More Poison”. Key details include 70 HP, Darkness, and New Wave. Card description: A life-form from another world, it was dubbed a UB and is thought to produce a strong neurotoxin.
Use this Nihilego page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Nihilego to your collection.
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Nihilego Card Details
Illustrator·nagimisoHP
70
TypesDarkness
- Ability
More Poison
Your opponent's Active Pokémon takes +10 damage from being Poisoned.
Nihilego Attacks
- 30New Wave
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned.
Weaknesses
Retreat Cost
How to get Nihilego
Deck snapshot
Where Nihilego 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
- 0.3%
- 8 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 62.5% of lists using it
Decks that use “Nihilego”
Small sample; interpret with care.
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Nihilego versions and alt art
3 matching cards
Daily tournament data
Build with Nihilego
Seen in 0.3% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 1 copy.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.3%
- 8 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 62.5% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.38
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 2
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Nihilego”
- Team Rocket's Weezing ex Zoroark ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (2)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 66.7%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
- Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 1.3%
- Meta share
- 2.8%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Nihilego
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Deino
- 2× Hydreigon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Poison Barb
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Hiking Trail
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Nihilego in tournament decks
This card appears in 2 current and 0 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Other cards with the same More Poison Ability as Nihilego
3 matching cards
Other cards with New Wave, like Nihilego
3 matching cards
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