Skull Fossil

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.

How to get Skull Fossil

Where Skull Fossil 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.

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Build with Skull Fossil

Seen in 0.4% of 4,333 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.

Small sample; interpret with care.

Tournament usage
0.4%
18 / 4,333 lists
Most common count
2 copies
77.8% of lists using it
Average copies
1.78
Among lists using it
Archetypes
6
Current decks using it

Decks that use “Skull Fossil”

  1. Lycanroc ex Rampardos
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (5)
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    Inclusion
    100.0%
    Meta share
    0.1%
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  2. Paldean Clodsire Rampardos
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (3)
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  3. Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
    1 copy
    100.0% (3)
    2 copies
    0.0% (0)
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  4. Rampardos Ditto
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (2)
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    Inclusion
    100.0%
    Meta share
    0.1%
  5. Rotom ex
    1 copy
    100.0% (1)
    2 copies
    0.0% (0)
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  6. Mega Lucario ex Lucario
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (1)
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    Inclusion
    0.8%
    Meta share
    2.9%
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Event window: Oct 9, 2026 – Nov 6, 2026

Skull Fossil in tournament decks

This card appears in 6 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.

Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.

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Historical decks featuring this card

Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.

Cards commonly played with Skull Fossil

These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Skull Fossil. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.

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