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Gouging Fire
Pokemon
“Gouging Fire” (B3a-054) is a Pokémon card from the Paradox Drive set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Key details include 110 HP, Dragon, and Scorching Interruption. Card description: It resembles an eerie Pokémon once shown in a paranormal magazine. That Pokémon was said to be an Entei regenerated from a fossil.
Use this Gouging Fire page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Gouging Fire to your collection.
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Gouging Fire Card Details
Illustrator·UninoriHP
110
TypesDragon
Pokedex Number
#1020
Gouging Fire Attacks
- 100Scorching Interruption
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon takes -30 damage from attacks.
Weaknesses
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Retreat Cost
How to get Gouging Fire
Deck snapshot
Where Gouging Fire 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
- 4.7%
- 138 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 97.1% of lists using it
Decks that use “Gouging Fire”
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Daily tournament data
Build with Gouging Fire
Seen in 4.7% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
- Tournament usage
- 4.7%
- 138 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 97.1% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.97
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 2
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Gouging Fire”
- Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
- 1 copy
- 1.5% (2)
- 2 copies
- 98.5% (133)
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- Inclusion
- 93.8%
- Meta share
- 5.0%
Real 2-copy listReal 1-copy list
- 2× Dratini
- 1× Gouging Fire
- 2× Dragonair
- 1× Mega Rayquaza ex
- 1× Drampa
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Protective Poncho
- 1× Hiking Trail
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Rayquaza ex Dragonair
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 33.3%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Gouging Fire
- 2× Dratini
- 2× Dragonair
- 2× Mega Rayquaza ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Ancient Booster Energy Capsule
- 1× Professor Sada
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Gouging Fire in tournament decks
This card appears in 2 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
Gouging Fire Dragonair
Last seen Sep 3, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Mega Rayquaza ex Gouging Fire
Last seen Aug 31, 2026100.0% card inclusion - Archived meta snapshot
Dragonite ex Mega Rayquaza ex
Last seen Aug 13, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Dragonite ex Walking Wake
Last seen Sep 14, 2026100.0% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Gouging Fire
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Gouging Fire. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Dragonair
B4-117
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Mega Rayquaza ex
B4-120
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Rainbow Cave
B4-155
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 2
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
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