Real tournament list
Garchomp ex Rampardos
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Skull Fossil
Trainer
“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.
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Skull Fossil Card Details
Illustrator·Toyste BeachEffect
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
Deck snapshot
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.
- Tournament usage
- 0.4%
- 11 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 72.7% of lists using it
Decks that use “Skull Fossil”
Small sample; interpret with care.
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Daily tournament data
Build with Skull Fossil
Seen in 0.4% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.4%
- 11 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 72.7% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.73
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 4
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Skull Fossil”
- Garchomp ex Rampardos
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (2)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
- Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (2)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 1.4%
- Meta share
- 5.0%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Dratini
- 2× Gouging Fire
- 2× Dragonair
- 1× Mega Rayquaza ex
- 1× Skull Fossil
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Ancient Booster Energy Capsule
- 1× Professor Sada
- 1× Small Balloon
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Charizard Y ex Entei ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 1.3%
- Meta share
- 2.6%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Entei ex
- 1× Charizard
- 1× Mega Charizard Y ex
- 2× Charmander
- 2× Charmeleon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Skull Fossil
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Big Malasada
- 2× Flame Patch
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Lucario ex Lucario
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 0.5%
- Meta share
- 6.4%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Hitmonlee
- 2× Rampardos
- 1× Riolu
- 1× Lucario
- 1× Bonsly
- 1× Riolu
- 1× Mega Lucario ex
- 2× Skull Fossil
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Arena of Antiquity
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Skull Fossil in tournament decks
This card appears in 4 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
Rampardos Ditto
Last seen Sep 6, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos Tyrantrum
Last seen Aug 9, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos
Last seen Aug 17, 2026100.0% card inclusion - Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos Archeops
Last seen Aug 31, 2026100.0% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
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.
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 99.8%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 99.5%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 97.1%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 75.9%
Cranidos
A2-088
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Rampardos
A2-089
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
