Charizard ex Special Illustration Rare and More “Obsidian Flames” Cards Revealed!

This is one of the rare times the English TCG is revealing cards from a set before Japan; Ruler of the Black Flame releases in Japan next week, but its marketing has been relatively tame. This is probably because Japan had to market both Pokemon Card 151 and the ex Start Decks in the past few weeks. We also just revealed Ruler of the Black Flame will see a small initial release, and then a wider release in early August, which could potentially be influencing the marketing.

As posted before, Ruler of the Black Flame and Obsidian Flames will introduce the first Tera Pokemon ex of unusual types. This includes Charizard ex (Darkness), Tyranitar ex (Lightning), and Eiscue ex (Fire).

These “type-shifted” Tera Pokemon ex will use the same Energy as their usual types, but will have a different Weakness to correspond with their shifted types. For example, Charizard ex will be a Darkness card with Fire attack costs and a Grass Weakness (in the TCG, Darkness types are weak to Grass to represent Bug).

Here are all the other Obsidian Flames cards revealed so far:

Obsidian Flames will release on August 11th. Our set will be a combination of the cards from July’s Ruler of the Black Flame, July’s eight ex Starter Decks, May’s ex Special Sets, and the 30ish cut cards from Paldea Evolved.