The 10 Most Iconic Mewtwo Cards of All Time
From the 1999 holo to Shining Mewtwo, ten cards and one 2026 bonus, and the habit nearly all of them share: their attacks keep counting Energy.
The most iconic Mewtwo cards are the ones collectors recognise from across a room: a 1999 holo, a dark glittering Shining card from 2000, a Mewtwo curled up in a glass tank. Ten of them, plus one bonus from 2026.
The countdown runs from 10 to 1 in the order of the carousel this list comes from, ranked by how iconic each card is, not by price. Read the attacks as you go: almost every card asks the same question.
10. Mewtwo, 1999 holo
Ken Sugimori drew Mewtwo standing alone against a starry holo background, one hand raised. The flavour text says where it came from: a scientist created this Pokémon after years of horrific gene-splicing and DNA engineering experiments.
60 HP and two attacks. Psychic does 10 damage plus 10 more for each Energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon. Barrier discards an Energy to prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, during the opponent's next turn. Keep both in mind.
9. M Mewtwo EX, 2015
5ban Graphics pushed Mega Mewtwo so close that only its head and one arm fit, then wrote the attack name across the art in giant katakana. They spell out Psychic Infinity, the attack printed just below.
Psychic Infinity does 10 damage plus 30 more for each Energy attached to both Active Pokémon, and Weakness does not apply. 210 HP, three and a half times the Base Set card.
8. Mewtwo LV.X, 2008
Shizurow drew Mewtwo charging a sphere of blue energy, lightning cracking around it. A LV.X card goes on top of your Active Mewtwo, which keeps every attack and power from its previous level.
Its Poké-Body, Psybarrier, prevents all effects of attacks, including damage, done by any opponent's Pokémon that isn't an Evolved Pokémon. That is the Base Set's Barrier again, nine years later, and this time it never switches off.
7. Mewtwo V, 2022 Pokémon GO
N-DESIGN Inc. put a 3D Mewtwo in the air between glass towers and giant billboards, with the Pokémon GO logo printed on the art itself. It is the only card on this list that carries a game's logo.
Transfer Break does 160 and moves an Energy from Mewtwo to one of your Benched Pokémon. Even on a card about a mobile game, the attack is about where the Energy goes.
6. Mewtwo EX, 2012 full art
The whole card is Mewtwo, outlined in gold from the tip of its tail to its raised fist. 5ban Graphics left almost no background on this full art numbered 98/99, only a swirl of purple and blue.
X Ball does 20 damage times the amount of Energy attached to both Mewtwo and the Defending Pokémon. The more Energy either player commits, the harder it hits.
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5. Mewtwo & Mew GX, 2019 Tag Team
The only card here where Mewtwo shares the frame with another Pokémon: Mew floats in front, Mewtwo's tail curling behind it. A TAG TEAM card with 270 HP, worth three Prize cards when it is Knocked Out.
Its Ability, Perfection, lets it use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. Miraculous Duo GX does 200 and, with at least one extra Energy attached, heals all damage from all of your Pokémon.
4. Rocket's Mewtwo, 2000
Rocket's Mewtwo prints the same Pokédex line as the Base Set card, Genetic Pokémon, 6 feet 7 inches, 269 lbs. What changed is the name: the Pokémon now has an owner, and a Team Rocket badge sits in the bottom corner.
Juxtapose flips a coin to swap the damage counters on Rocket's Mewtwo with those on the Defending Pokémon. Psyburn does 60.
3. Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex, 2025
Twenty-five years after Rocket's Mewtwo, the owner is in the picture. Iwamoto05 put a smiling man in a dark suit in the foreground and Mewtwo behind him, glowing blue under red light.
This card also appears in our list of the Pokémon cards with the most aura, where the man in the suit is the whole point.
Its Ability, Power Saver, says Mewtwo can't attack unless you have 4 or more Team Rocket's Pokémon in play. 280 HP, and still not free.
2. Mewtwo GX, 2017
Mitsuhiro Arita drew the moment before everything else on this list: Mewtwo curled inside a glass tank in a lab, a screen on the left showing its outline. It is the Base Set flavour text turned into a picture.
The card is numbered 78/73, above the size of its set. Full Burst does 30 damage times the amount of Energy attached to Mewtwo, and Psystrike GX does 200, unaffected by any effects on the opponent's Active Pokémon.
1. Shining Mewtwo, 2000
Hironobu Yoshida painted Mewtwo in dark, glittering colours, fist thrust out of the frame. The card prints its own rule at the top: you can't have more than 1 Shining Mewtwo in your deck. Its number, 109/105, sits above the size of its set.
The flavour text sums Mewtwo up: it uses its highly developed psychic powers to defeat its enemies before they even have time to think. Reflect Shield can prevent all damage from an attack on a coin flip, and Psyburst adds 10 damage for each Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.
Bonus: Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex, 2026
Mitsuhiro Arita, who drew number 2, returns with the 2026 version of the same card: same Ability, same attack, but Mewtwo now looms over the man in the suit instead of standing behind him. Two gold stars, 281/217.
What Mewtwo's iconic cards have in common
Read the attacks instead of the art. Five of the ten cards set their damage by counting Energy: Psychic, Psychic Infinity, X Ball, Full Burst and Psyburst. Three more discard or move it: Giga Burn, Transfer Break and Erasure Ball. Miraculous Duo GX needs an extra Energy to heal.
Only Rocket's Mewtwo ignores Energy altogether. And three cards carry a shield: Barrier in 1999, Psybarrier in 2008, Reflect Shield on the number 1. The cards keep telling the same story as the flavour text, a Pokémon that reads the other side's power and turns it back.
The second thread is ownership. Three cards put Team Rocket in the name, and the two newest put a man in a suit in the art. The Pokémon made in a lab keeps being drawn as somebody's weapon.
“Mewtwo's best cards are not about its own power, but about yours.”
The same countdown for another fan favourite is in our ranking of the most iconic Gengar cards.
Iconic cards are the ones collectors hold on to. Stakd shows what each Mewtwo in your binder is worth, from the 1999 holo to the 2026 bonus.
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