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Houndoom
Darkness Pokémon Rare Secret Battle Styles Regulation E
Card profile
Card year
2021
Mar 19, 2021
Set release
BST
Battle Styles · Sword & Shield
Catalog appearances
28
21 sets · 2001-2025
Pokemon debut
Generation II
Johto · 1999
Evolution
Card details
Released
Mar 19, 2021
Year
2021
Series
Sword & Shield
Set size
163 / 183
Card number
#179 of 163
Stage
Stage 1, Single Strike
National Dex
#229
Artist
PLANETA Mochizuki
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Screen appearances
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Catalog appearances
Prismatic Evolutions
Jan 17, 2025 · #63 · Common
$0.26
Shrouded Fable
Aug 2, 2024 · #66 · Illustration Rare
$50.10
Shrouded Fable
Aug 2, 2024 · #8 · Common
$0.29
Obsidian Flames
Aug 11, 2023 · #133 · Uncommon
$0.29
Scarlet & Violet
Mar 31, 2023 · #34 · Common
$0.19
Brilliant Stars Trainer Gallery
Feb 25, 2022 · #TG10 · Trainer Gallery Rare Holo
$4.05
Battle Styles
Mar 19, 2021 · #179 · Rare Secret
$23.93
Battle Styles
Mar 19, 2021 · #96 · Rare Holo
$0.40
SWSH Black Star Promos
Nov 15, 2019 · #SWSH090 · Promo
$12.97
Lost Thunder
Nov 2, 2018 · #46 · Rare
$3.30
Crimson Invasion
Nov 3, 2017 · #59 · Rare
$0.92
Plasma Blast
Aug 14, 2013 · #56 · Rare Holo
$6.62
Dragons Exalted
Aug 15, 2012 · #75 · Rare
$12.38
Call of Legends
Feb 9, 2011 · #10 · Rare Holo
$29.99
HS—Undaunted
Aug 18, 2010 · #82 · Rare Prime
$202.36
HS—Undaunted
Aug 18, 2010 · #5 · Rare Holo
$26.55
Legends Awakened
Aug 1, 2008 · #57 · Uncommon
$8.33
Great Encounters
Feb 1, 2008 · #18 · Rare
$16.87
45 total CardsCloud cards share National Dex #229.
Abilities
Single Strike Roar
Ability
Once during your turn, you may search your deck for a Single Strike Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Single Strike Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, put 2 damage counters on that Pokémon.
Attacks
Darkness Fang
DC
50 Battle stats
Weakness
Grass ×2
Retreat cost
●●
Market value
Price history
Flavor text
Identifiable by its eerie howls, people a long time ago thought it was the grim reaper and feared it.
Legality
Unlimited
Legal
Standard
Legal
Expanded
Legal