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Darkrai
Pokemon
“Darkrai” (B2b-040) is a Pokémon card from the Mega Shine set in Pokémon TCG Pocket, built around the Ability “Bad Dreams”. Key details include 100 HP, Darkness, and Dark Slumber. Card description: It chases people and Pokémon from its territory by causing them to experience deep, nightmarish slumbers.
Use this Darkrai page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Darkrai to your collection.
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Darkrai Card Details
Illustrator·nagimisoHP
100
TypesDarkness
Pokedex Number
#491
- Ability
Bad Dreams
At the end of each turn, if your opponent's Active Pokémon is Asleep, do 20 damage to that Pokémon.
Darkrai Attacks
- 40Dark Slumber
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Asleep.
Weaknesses
Retreat Cost
How to get Darkrai
Deck snapshot
Where Darkrai 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
- 10.8%
- 314 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 99.7% of lists using it
Decks that use “Darkrai”
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Darkrai versions and alt art
3 matching cards
Other Darkrai cards with different effects
2 matching cards
Daily tournament data
Build with Darkrai
Seen in 10.8% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
- Tournament usage
- 10.8%
- 314 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 99.7% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 2
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 6
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Darkrai”
- Mega Altaria ex Espeon
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (295)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 10.1%
- Mega Altaria ex Igglybuff
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (9)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.3%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Igglybuff
- 2× Mega Altaria ex
- 2× Swablu
- 2× Darkrai
- 2× Sabrina
- 2× Leaf
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Protective Poncho
- 1× Team Rocket's Thieving Machine
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Lucario ex Igglybuff
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (3)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Riolu
- 2× Igglybuff
- 2× Darkrai
- 2× Mega Lucario ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Korrina
- 1× Arena of Antiquity
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Absol ex Darkrai ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 25.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 2× Igglybuff
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Darkrai
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Leaf
- 1× Giant Cape
- 2× Rocky Helmet
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Starting Plains
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Sableye ex Darkrai ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 25.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 2× Igglybuff
- 2× Darkrai
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Rocky Helmet
- 2× Cyrus
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Starting Plains
- 1× Small Balloon
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Garchomp ex Dragonair
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 5.0%
- Meta share
- 0.7%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Igglybuff
- 1× Darkrai
- 2× Dratini
- 2× Dragonair
- 2× Gible
- 2× Mega Garchomp ex
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Darkrai in tournament decks
This card appears in 6 current and 3 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.
Other cards with the same Bad Dreams Ability as Darkrai
3 matching cards
Other cards with Dark Slumber, like Darkrai
4 matching cards
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Darkrai
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Darkrai. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 6
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 6
- avg. inclusion
- 98.5%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 6
- avg. inclusion
- 99.4%
Sabrina
A1-225
- shared archetypes
- 6
- avg. inclusion
- 95.2%
Igglybuff
A4a-059
- shared archetypes
- 5
- avg. inclusion
- 96.8%
Mega Altaria ex
B1-102
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
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