Hi there. In this post, I cover the full cards reveal from Pokemon Japan's Inferno X set in late September 2025. These cards plus the cards from the Mega Gengar and Mega Diancie decks will appear in the interntaional Phantasmal Flames set in November 2025.
There are so many cards in the reveal so I will cover a couple. Some cards that were covered before in past posts are covered again.
Genesect
This Genesect is a Grass Basic Pokemon instead of Metal. This has 120 HP, 2 retreat cost and Fire weakness.
The Speed Attack requires 2 Grass Energy and 1 Colourless Energy to deal 110 damage.
Bug's Cannon requires 1 Grass Energy. This attack does 20 damage to any 1 of your opponent's Pokemon for each Grass Energy attached to this Genesect. Combine this with the Mega Evolutions Meganium for more fire power against opponent's Benched Pokemon.
Reshiram
Reshiram is a Basic Fire Pokemon with 130 HP, 2 retreat cost and Water weakness.
The first attack requires 1 Fire Energy to deal 30 damage. It is a good attack in the early game and can one hit knockout weak 30 HP Pokemon.
Burning Flare requires 4 Fire Energy to deal 240 damage plus 60 damage to itself. The Energy cost for the attack is costly but it does deal big damage. Maybe this Reshiram can be a single Prize attacker in a Ethan's Ho-oh + Armarouge Fire deck.
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Charcadet & Ceruledge
There is another Charcadet card release. This one has 70 HP, 2 retreat cost and 2 attacks for 1 Fire Energy each. The Chop attack does 10 damage and the Gather Power attack lets you grab 2 Basic Energy cards from deck to hand.
Ceruledge is a Stage 1 Fire Pokemon that evolves from Charcadet. This has 140, 2 retreat cost and Water weakness. The Purgatory Slash requires 1 Fire Energy and 4 Basic Fire Energy cards to be discarded to deal 220 damage. This attack requirement is quite high. You need 5 Fire Energy (1 for attack, 4 in hand) plus getting this Ceruledge in play. Maybe a 1 of attacker in Ceruledge ex decks and maybe in Fire based Gholdengo ex decks. Maybe.
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Mega Charizard X ex
I have covered Mega Charizard X ex in a previous post a few weeks back. It is worth putting them here again as Mega Charizard X ex is the main Pokemon in Inferno X in Japan and in Phantasmal Flames.
Seel & Dewgong
We have Seel and Dewgong here. Both are not great attackers but I think the arts look nice for non-holo cards.
Piplup & Prinplup
Piplup is a cute Basic Water Pokemon with 70 HP, 1 retreat cost, Lightning weakness and 2 attacks. The Tackle attack requires 2 of any Energy to deal 20 damage.
The Call for Support first attack requires 1 of any Energy to search for a Supporter card from deck, reveal it, and put it into your hand. (Then shuffle deck.)
Empoleon ex
Empoleon ex is the final evolution of Piplup. This one is not a Water type. It is a Metal type Pokemon with 2 retreat cost, Fire weakness, Grass resistance, one ability and one attack.
The Counter Stance ability prevents all effects of attacks from your opponent's Pokemon. This prevents attacks that involve damage counters, de-evolution, Poison effects, Burn effects, Sleep effects, Paralyze effects and Confusion effects.
Iron Phaser requires 2 Metal Energy and 1 Colourless Energy for its attack. It does 210 damage and Empoleon ex takes 60 less damage from attacks. The damage output is a little low and the energy cost is kind of difficult to meet. Maybe use this Metang for Energy acceleration?
Paldean Tauros (Fighting)
Paldean Tauros is a Basic Fighting Pokemon with 2 retreat cost, Psychic weakness and 130 HP. The Double Edge attack requires 2 Fighting Energy to deal 70 damage to the opponent's Active Pokemon and 20 damage to itself.
What intrigues me is the Raging Charge first attack for 1 Fighting Energy. Raging Charge deals 40 damage for each damage counter on all of your Pokemon with Tauros in their name in play. In theory, a deck with Risky Ruins and a bunch of Tauros could be a lethal single prize alternative deck. Risky Ruins places 2 damage counters for any non-Dark Pokemon that comes into play.
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Having 3 Tauros with 2 damage counters each would be 6 damage counters. This would result in 240 damage from 1 Fighting Energy. That is scary firepower for a non Pokemon ex.
There is a possibility that the translation is wrong. It could count the number of Tauros that are damaged.
Toxtricity & Seviper
Toxtricity was covered before but it is worth covering it again as this is impactful to the metagame. Toxtricity is a Stage 1 Dark Pokemon that evolves from Toxel. The attack is not great but the ability provides very good Dark Energy acceleration from deck to 1 of your Benched Dark Pokemon. The drawback is that Benched Dark Pokemon takes 20 damage in the form of 2 damage counters.
Seviper is a Basic Dark Pokemon with 120 HP, one retreat cost and Fighting weakness. The Excite Power ability is an interesting damage boosting ability that activates if you have any Dark Pokemon ex in play. Seviper's attacks gains 120 more damage to your opponent's Pokemon.
The only attack on Seviper is Jet Black Fang. For 3 Dark Energy it does 120 damage. This attack on its own is not great but the ability makes Seviper more deadly at 240 damage. You can accelerate Dark Energy with Toxtricity to make the energy cost easier to meet.
Duraludon & Archaludon
Here are new versions of Duraludon and Archaludon. I don't think these 2 are good. Too much Energy investment for their attacks to deal little damage.
There is a chance that this new Duraludon gets played with Archaludon ex and Relicanth.
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Smeargle
Smeargle's second attack is not great but the first attack is kind of useable. Energy Catch for 1 Colourless Energy lets you flip 3 coins. For each Heads attach 1 Basic Energy card from your Benched Pokemon in any way you like.
Buneary & Mega Lopunny ex
Buneary as an attacker is not great. The Run Around attack is okay to put Buneary to the Bench.
Mega Lopunny ex is the Stage 1 evolution of Buneary. This has 330 HP, 1 retreat cost, Fighting weakness and just 2 attacks.
The second attack of Spike Hopper requires 2 Colourless Energy to deal 160 damage. This attack ignores any effects on your opponent's Pokemon. It goes through Pokemon walls like Mimikyu and Crustle and ignores their abilities.
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Dawn (Supporter)
Here is the Dawn supporter card. You can search your deck for 1 Basic Pokemon, 1 Stage 1 Evolution and 1 Stage 2 Evolution card, reveal them and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your deck. I think you can still play Dawn even if you don't have Evolution cards in your deck.
Decks that run Stage 2 evolution cards will find Dawn to be a staple card. This is better than Brock's Scouting. Brock's Scouting would be better than Dawn in Stage 1 evolution decks.
Heat Burner
I have covered the Heat Burner card in the past but it is worth covering it again. This Item card is a good card. There is a cost of discarding 1 Basic Fire Energy from your hand to play this card.
Choose 1 Pokemon Tool, Special Energy or Stadium card your opponent has in play and discard it. This card is a mix of Tool Scrapper (sort of), Enhanced Hammer and a Chien-Pao stadium removal effect but you choose 1 of 3.
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Battle Colosseum
Battle Coloesseum is a unique Stadium card that prevents all damage counters from being placed on Benched Pokemon by attack effects or abilities used by the opponent's Pokemon. Both players can use this Stadium effect.
This card appears to be a response to the rampant amount of Munkidoris and Dragapults. I don't think this Stadium stops Froslass as Froslass places damage counters on all Pokemon with abilities in between turns.
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Inferno X TCG Accessories At Japan's Pokemon Centers
Along with the Japanese Inferno X release, there are TCG accessories. There are new card sleeves and deck boxes.
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There are also Dawn sleeves and a Dawn deck box for the Hikari/Dawn fans.
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Thank you for reading.