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Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
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Gouging Fire
“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.
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
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.
Decks that use “Gouging Fire”
Build with Gouging Fire
Seen in 3.0% of 3,523 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
- Tournament usage
- 3.0%
- 106 / 3,523 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 98.1% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.98
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 1
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Gouging Fire”
- Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
- 1 copy
- 1.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 99.0% (104)
View real lists
- Inclusion
- 92.9%
- Meta share
- 3.2%
Real 2-copy listReal 1-copy list
- 2× Dratini
- 1× Gouging Fire
- 2× Dragonair
- 1× Mega Rayquaza ex
- 2× Drampa
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× May
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Small Balloon
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Gouging Fire in tournament decks
This card appears in 1 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
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
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Dragonair
B4-117
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Mega Rayquaza ex
B4-120
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Rainbow Cave
B4-155
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 1
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
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