Arceus cards
Every Arceus card we could find. We hold no price for any of them, so this page names and pictures the printings instead.
- The Alpha Pokemon. Arceus is #493 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. DP Black Star Promos, May 1, 2007.
- Type. Normal in the video games, which is printed as Colorless on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 4, Sinnoh. Flagged Mythical in the Pokedex, the event-only category.
- Size. 3.2m (10ft 6in) and 320.0kg (705lb).
- Capture rate 3 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is one of the hardest things in the games to catch.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Evolution
Arceus does not evolve
It has no pre-evolution and nothing it becomes, which puts it with the 200 other species in the Pokedex that stand alone. The evolution chart lists every one of them.
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026.
The whole list
Every Arceus printing we could name
All 48 of them, English and Japanese. 37 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 11 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Arceus VSTAR Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery • GG70 Secret Rare
- Arceus ex Mega Rising • 328 Two Shiny
- Arceus S-P • 166 Promo • Japanese
- Arceus S-P • 267 Promo • Japanese
- Shining Arceus Shining Legends • 57 Ultra Rare
- Arceus V SWSH Black Star Promos • SWSH306 Promo
- Arceus VSTAR SWSH Black Star Promos • SWSH307 Promo
- Arceus ウルトラフォース • 037 Holo Rare • Japanese
- Arceus オルタージェネシス • 112 Hyper Rare • Japanese
- Arceus ひかる伝説 • 059 Shiny Ultra Rare • Japanese
- Arceus 伝説キラコレクション • 024 Rare • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Arceus
Damage taken by a Normal Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Fighting
- 0xGhost, no effect at all
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.