Pokemon TCG Pocket best decks tier list (March 2025)

Our Pokemon TCG Pocket best decks tier list has everything you need to know about the current meta, with Triumphant Light have provided three separate new deck builds that have massively shaken up everything. Right now we're seeing Arceus, Leafeon and, uh... Rampardos? Really? Ok, fine, Rampardos holding some of the top spots in PTCGP, with these three decks being hugely effective, in part because the third of these is a direct response and counter to the first one. Still, a high success rate is a high success rate, so we'll lay out our tier list for all the best Pokemon TCG Pocket meta decks below, the pros and cons of each one, and how you can make them all for yourself.

Best Pokemon TCG Pocket decks and full tier list

The current best decks in Pokemon TCG Pocket are laid out in the following tier list.

• S-tier decks
  • Arceus ex (Steel / Grass): The legendary God Pokemon works well in conjunction with Dialga and Shaymin.
  • Leafeon ex / Celebi ex (Grass): This modified version of the Celebi deck with Triumphant Light cards uses Leafeon's energy generation abilities to deadly effect.
  • Rampardos / Sudowoodo (Fighting): A deck basically designed to bring down all those decks that focus on Ex Pokemon, this glass cannon comes out swinging but struggles for late-game survivability.
  • Weavile ex / Darkrai ex (Dark): Space-Time Smackdown has opened up the meta to include this incredibly powerful Dark-type deck, with a strong early game and high damage level.
  • Celebi ex / Serperior (Grass): Celebi is a powerful card made more powerful for every Grass energy attached - and Serperior then doubles the power of each Grass energy.
  • Mewtwo ex (Psychic): This deck focuses on Mewtwo ex up front and having Gardevoir on the bench, using the latter to rapidly power up the former to do massive damage.
  • Pikachu ex (Electric): A high-speed deck designed to do rapid damage before the opponent can set up their own play.
  • Palkia ex (Water): Water decks are thriving in the Meta, and the new Palkia card is a high-power force for destruction. The high energy cost is quickly mitigated by a supporting deck of Vaporeon, Manaphy and of course, Misty.
• A-tier decks
  • Starmie ex / Articuno ex (Water): A diverse deck that combines speed and power through a mix of rare cards, using Misty to (sometimes) provide energy to the team.
  • Gyarados ex (Water/Fire): The Mythical Island Gyarados is incredibly powerful and durable, so if you can charge it up with Misty, you'll probably win.
  • Dialga ex (Metal): A diverse deck build that uses Dialga to supply energy to benched Pokemon, who can then come forward and do heavy damage earlier.
• B-tier decks
  • Charizard ex (Fire): A heavy-hitting deck that uses Moltres ex to fuel a benched Charizard ex with its Inferno Dance, before swapping them around to do some major damage.
  • Venusaur ex (Grass): A deck that uses healing powers to sustain itself, but struggles in the early game.
• C-tier decks
  • Marowak ex (Fighting): A cheap, quick fighting deck that risks a lot on coin flips.
  • Poison/Koga (Dark): Arbok and Weezing control and poison the opponent while Koga allows you to return Weezing to your hand. Lacks raw power, though a good budget deck with a strong early game.

We'll go into these decks further on, and there's plenty of the Pokemon TCG Pocket best cards that aren't necessarily represented in the decks above, but keep in mind that the meta and the best decks in Pocket aren't so unstoppable that you'll always be guaranteed a 100% win rate. Type disadvantage, a bad opening hand, clever plays by your opponent - all these things can bring even the most powerful deck down, and metas being what they are, we'll likely see some counter-decks for these two popping up soon, especially as more cards are added.

Now, admittedly these decks all tend to include some of the rarest cards in Pokemon TCG Pocket, and that's something to keep in mind - you won't be able to build these straight off the bat unless you're willing to sync a lot of money into gold, or just are very lucky in your pack draws.

Arceus ex deck

This Arceus ex deck is about rapid energy generation in collaboration with the other deity, Dialga ex.

• Arceus ex x2
• Dialga ex x2
• Shaymin (Space-Time Smackdown) x1
• Shaymin (Triumphant Light) x1
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x2
• Giant Cape x2
• Rocky Helmet x1
• Adaman x1
• Cyrus x1
• Giovanni x1
• Sabrina x2
• Professor's Research x2

The headliner of the Pokemon TCG Pocket Triumphant Light expansion, Arceus ex, has many different variants of decks that are strong contenders right now, but the strongest that we can see is a working relationship with its child Dialga ex. For this deck, you send out Dialga ex first, and quickly send back energy to a benched Arceus to quickly power it up. At the same time, the two Shaymin provide passive buffs of health and reduced retreat costs, giving you a lot more flexibility and health.

The downside is a slow start and poor early game, especially if you don't get Dialga soon enough. You're basically just trying to stay alive until the mid-game, using trainer cards, tools and healing to keep your team alive until Arceus and Dialga are ready to bring out their high-power moves. Get through that rough early section, and you'll be very hard to stop.

• Pros
  • Arceus' attack can do 130 damage with a full bench
  • Dialga is a strong opening play
  • High health and survival power
• Cons
  • Weak to the common fighting deck
  • Poor early game as a rule
  • Vulnerable to control decks

Leafeon ex / Celebi ex deck

This modified Celebi ex deck includes the Triumphant Light Leafeon ex to increase energy production for higher damage output.

• Eevee (Continuous Steps variant) x2
• Leafeon ex x2
• Celebi ex x2
• Shaymin (Triumphant Light) x1
• Giant Cape x2
• Poke Ball x2
• X Speed x2
• Potion x1
• Professor's Research x2
• Cyrus x1
• Dawn x1
• Erika x2

Celebi ex gaining power from how much energy it has attached to it means that a pairing with an energy generation card like Leafeon is only natural. Leafeon's main ability is to give a free energy to any other card you have (if it's in the active slot), but this means if you have two of them in play, you can use Forest Breath, have Leafeon retreat, then use the other Leafeon's Forest Breath. This means Celebi can potentially get three energy applied to it in a single turn; a devastasting ramp up.

The downsides are pretty apparent - Fire is your big threat, and if you can't find Celebi in the deck, Leafeon's power won't help you much. Still, Shaymin's passive ability to spark rapid retreats will help you improvise in a pinch.

• Pros
  • Rapid energy gives you a strong early/mid game
  • Celebi ex can do more damage than any other card if set up right
  • Good survivability and healing
• Cons
  • Dependant on drawing Celebi for best effect
  • Weak to Fire decks

Rampardos / Sudowoodo deck

This fighting-type deck seems unassuming, but is getting startling results in the wake of Triumphant Light. You can build it yourself with:

• Sudowoodo x1
• Marshadow x1
• Riolu x2
• Lucario x2
• Skull Fossil x2
• Cranidos x2
• Rampardos x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Pokemon Communication x2
• Professor's Research x2
• Sabrina x1
• Cyrus x1

I've been playing this deck a lot at the moment and getting far more wins than losses overall. The pitch here is that this is a kind of anti-Ex deck, designed to take down all the more high-power decks that tend to dominate the meta. Sudowoodo can do 50 damage to an ex card with one energy right off the bat, while Rampardos can do 130 damage! Not only that, but the presence of Lucario means everything will get a permanent +20 damage boost, raised to +40 if you can get them both onto the board.

The downsides of this deck are pretty straightforward - it's a glass cannon build focused on the early game, without much in survival power. You can readdress that with some tweaks, but ultimately its smarter just to double down on what's good, and outpace your opponents. Send out Sudowoodo early on if possible, while building up towards Rampardos and Lucario on the bench.

• Pros
  • Low energy costs across the board
  • Very strong early game
  • Rampardos buffed by Lucario can one-shot many ex Pokemon for one energy!
• Cons
  • It's hard to get that Skull Fossil to start the Rampardos line
  • Low survival power generally
  • Weakens in the late game

Weavile ex / Darkrai ex deck

The new Pokemon TCG Pocket Space-Time Smackdown expansion has added a bunch of strong new cards and opened up this Dark-type deck based around Weavile ex and Darkrai ex.

• Sneasel x2
• Weavile ex x2
• Darkrai ex x2
• Spiritomb x2
• Dawn x2
• Cyrus x2
• Professor's Research x2
• Pokemon Communication x2
• X Speed x2
• Poke Ball x2

This is a high-power deck based around unrelenting offensive power from the off, as well as some energy control to keep Darkrai ex's ability going. Meanwhile, a supporting hand of control cards like Cyrus and Pokemon Communication mean that you can keep that offense maintained, dragging damaged Pokemon back into play or even damaging benched Pokemon directly with Spiritomb.

The downside here is a lack of any real killer attacks - a big tanky Blastoise will survive anything you have for at least a while, so you need to ensure it never reaches the late-game phase. If something can survive your barrage, like Mewtwo ex, nothing you have is durable enough to stand up to a long assault. Still, a powerful early game has been a staple of the meta from the beginning, and Weavile ex being so potent off the bat (not to mention Dawn's energy control) means you can really come out swinging here.

• Pros
  • Very strong early game
  • Strong against the relatively common psychic decks
  • Good board control
• Cons
  • Weak to grass decks (and Celebi ex as a result)
  • No real late-game powerhouse attacks
  • Lower health pools

If you're looking for more detail on strategies and ways to play this build, we've got a more comprehensive guide on the Pokemon TCG Pocket Darkrai ex and Weavile ex deck here!

Celebi ex deck

The Mythical Island booster for Pokemon TCG added Celebi ex, a powerful grass-type who established this meta-busting deck.

• Celebi ex x2
• Snivy x2
• Servine x2
• Serperior x2
• Dhelmise x1
• Professor’s Research x2
• Erika x2
• Sabrina x2
• Poké Ball x2
• X Speed x2
• Potion x1

This Celebi ex deck prioritizes the mythical psychic and grass Pokemon with a fearsome ability to land exponential damage. On a baseline level, Celebi’s attack is worth 50 hit points. But for every energy attached to it, Celebi gets a coin toss. Every head you land adds an additional 50 points of damage. Most Pokemon have less than 80 HP, which means that lucky players can kill an ex Pokemon in one go.

To maximize Celebi’s effectiveness, you’ll want to pair it with Serperior, another new card. Serperior’s Jungle Totem ability makes every grass-type energy count as two, which means that a Celebi with a mere 2-3 energy will get many chances at a favorable coin toss.

Serperior is a third stage evolution, however, meaning it will take some setting up before you can unleash its fury. Fortunately, Dhelmise makes great usage of Serperior’s energy boosting with a 20 HP ability that can add 70 additional HP when the card accrues at least 3 energy.

• Pros
  • Potential for huge damage output
  • Multiple attack options
  • Plenty of grass-type alternate card options, such as Exeggutor and Lilligant
• Cons
  • Takes a lot of set-up
  • Acquiring Celebi, a rare card, is difficult
  • Can be countered with easier-to-obtain fire decks

Best Mewtwo ex deck

The Mewtwo ex deck is one of the best decks in the meta right now, and is composed of the following:

• Mewtwo ex x2
• Ralts x2
• Kirlia x2
• Gardevoir x2
• Potion x2
• X Speed x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Red Card x1
• Professor's Research x2
• Mythical Slab x1
• Giovanni x2

Getting Mewtwo EX onto the battlefield has never been easier thanks to the new Mythical Slab card, which allows you to cycle through your monsters more effectively. Mythical Slab takes the top card of your deck; if it’s a psychic Pokemon, it goes into your hand. Anything else gets pulled to the bottom of your deck.

Once you’ve got Mewtwo on the active slot, you can rely on Gardevoir's "Psy Shadow" Ability to give it free energy every turn. Set it up right, and you can use Mewtwo's Psydrive attack to do 150 damage every turn, at no cost to yourself.

Before, setting up two Ralts evolutions was a risky proposition. Now, though, you’ve got multiple options for getting the card you need beyond Mythical Slab, like Professor’s Research and Pokeball.

We've also got a dedicated guide to looking at all versions of the Pokemon TCG Pocket Mewtwo ex deck.

• Pros
  • Massive, continuous damage when set up
  • Gardevoir and Mewtwo have decent HP
  • An arguably OP deck is now even stronger
• Cons
  • Your best bet for Mythical Slab is Wonder Pick
  • If you lose Mewtwo, it's all over
  • The new booster set introduces more counters

Pikachu ex deck

With new Mythical Island decks seemling targeting Pikachu, the ex deck has lost it's edge a little. It's still one of the best decks in play right now, with a strong early game, it just lost its unchallenged dominance. You can make it from the following cards:

• Pikachu ex x2
• Zapdos ex x2
• Voltorb x2
• Electrode x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x2
• Red Card x1
• X Speed x2
• Sabrina x2
• Giovanni x1
• Professor's Research x2

This is a massively aggressive "glass cannon" deck, based around getting powerful Pokemon on the field and doing high damage ASAP. Pikachu ex and Zapdos ex cards both can do major damage in their first few turns on the field, and it means you can secure a victory as early as turn six, if you're lucky.

However, if you haven't won by that point and give your opponent time to set up, things will get harder. Both are comparatively low health for "ex" cards, and obviously if one gets taken out, you lose two points instead of one. Not only that, but there's some luck involved here: Pikachu deals damage that scales to the number of Pokemon you have benched, and Zapdos' big attack is based on a series of coin flips, so you might end up doing nothing. With new options like Pidgeot EX and even Tauros now posing a viable threat, it's all a much riskier play now.

If you want more info on building and playing this, as well as some alternative builds, here's our full guide to the perfect Pokemon TCG Pocket Pikachu ex deck.

• Pros
  • Fast set-up and high damage, great early game
  • Not complex or dependent on evolution
  • Good against water decks, late-game decks, and the legendary birds, all of which are common
• Cons
  • Best attacks are somewhat circumstantial and not always relaiable
  • Low health pools
  • Expensive, high budget deck

Palkia ex deck

We predicted Palkia ex would be a meta-winner in Pokemon TCG Pocket after the Space-Time Smackdown, and sure enough one of the best water decks is now headlined by it. To make this Palkia ex deck, you'll need:

• Palkia ex x2
• Manaphy x2
• Eevee (Mythical Island/Continuous Steps Variant) x2
• Vaporeon (Mythical Island/Wash Out ability Variant) x2
• Misty x2
• Cyrus x2
• Professor's Research x2
• Giant Cape x2
• Pokemon Communication x2
• Poke Ball x2

Water decks have always been a high contender in the meta since the beginning (largely due to Misty), and Palkia ex is leaping on that trend. Everything here is about setting up Palkia's devastating Dimensional Storm attack, where it does 150 damage to the active enemy Pokemon and 20 damage to all the benched ones. The downside is that it costs you 4 energy and you discard three in the process.

Fortunately, your supporting team is here to help with that - Misty and Manaphy supplying a deluge of energy, while Vaporeon lets you control that energy placement. This is a deck that'll probably struggle in the early game to get a footing and you'll be very vulnerable to Pikachu and Electric decks, but items like Giant Cape and Pokemon Communication are designed to help with that.

• Pros
  • Devastating late game
  • Great energy control
  • Misty can win you the game on your first turn (if you're lucky)
• Cons
  • Can struggle in the early game
  • Weak to the common electric decks
  • A lot of set-up means many things that can go wrong

For more info on how to build a great Pokemon TCG Pocket Palkia ex deck, check out our dedicated guide!

Starmie ex / Articuno ex deck

Just below the top two decks, the Starmie ex deck is about getting powerful water Pokemon on the field and doing damage ASAP. Here's the most widely-used and effective version:

• Staryu x2
• Starmie ex x2
• Articuno ex x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x2
• X Speed x1
• Red Card x1
• Misty x2
• Giovanni x2
• Sabrina x1
• Vaporeon x1
• Professor's Research x2

This mix of Starmie and Articuno ex can potentially win you the game on turn one, if you're lucky with your draws. Getting Articuno and a good result with Misty means you can cast Blizzard for 80 damage the moment the game starts, potentially wiping the foe's board and securing the earliest of early victories. Admittedly Misty is based on chance, so there's no guarantees, but when it works, it's devastating.

The new Vaporeon variant also beefs up Misty in the rare cases that you land more coin tosses than you need. Wash Out allows you to move water energy from your benched Pokemon to your Active Pokemon as many times as you like during your turn. You can use X speed to swap out a monster stacked with energy which needs healing and replace it with something that could attack immediately once you move some energy around.

• Pros
  • Low/no retreat costs
  • Powerful early game
  • Misty/Articuno is a potential turn-one win
• Cons
  • Lacks really powerful "finisher" attacks
  • Weak to the very common Electric deck builds

Gyarados ex deck

This Gyarados ex deck focuses on defensive play, keeping Magikarp on the bench while you use Druddigon and Greninja to hold back foes.

• Magikarp (Mythical Island Variant) x2
• Gyarados ex x2
• Froakie x2
• Frogadier x2
• Greninja x2
• Druddigon x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Professor's Research x2
• Misty x2
• Leaf x2

There's a real argument to be made for removing the dragon type Druddigon, as this immediately makes this a dual-fire/water type deck for that card alone. However, we think it's worth the risk, as it's a superb tank that damages Pokemon that attack it. Keep Druddigon as the active Pokemon while keeping Froakie and Magikarp on the bench, fueling and evolving them both as fast as possible.

Once you're ready to counterattack, use Leaf to bring Druddigon off the field and bring in Gyarados ex. There'll be very few attacks that can defeat it, and its attack strips a random Pokemon of energy while doing a massive 140 damage - which is no issue for Greninja's active ability. If the enemy tries to pull damaged Pokemon back to safety, you can use those same Greninja to snipe them.

• Pros
  • Misty can potentially supercharge Magikarp early on for a quick win
  • Greninja is a great support Pokemon and Druddigon is a great tank
  • Gyarados ex can strip enemies of energy (though can also get your own team)
• Cons
  • Vulnerable to the very common electric deck archetypes
  • Can potentially be slow to prepare Gyarados if Misty doesn't work
  • Druddigon means you might keep drawing Fire energy

Dialga ex deck

This grass and metal-type Dialga ex deck also brings in Yanmega ex for a heavy damage dealer. There's a few variations floating around at the moment, but this is the one we've seen with the highest win-rate:

• Dialga ex x2
• Yanma x2
• Yanmega ex x2
• Burmy x1
• Wormadan x1
• Leaf x2
• Pokemon Communication x2
• Potion x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Rocky Helmet x1
• Leaf x1
• Professor's Research x2

The idea here is that Dialga ex's ability to supply energy to Benched cards is kinda broken, so send in cards that can make use of that. Dialga should be your first active Pokemon and a decent wall, supplying energy to the back benches (like Moltres ex in a fire-type deck). Once Yanmega ex is ready, which can be pretty early on, you bring it to the active spot and start to deal 120 damage every turn.

This is a pretty versatile deck build that can work with a few substitutions - swap out Yanmega for Lickilicky ex, Regigigas, Wigglytuff ex, Mew ex, or any strong card that uses colourless energy and the principle remains the same. The downside is that the set-up can be a little tricky, and without Dialga in your opening hand, you might struggle to get that initial momentum.

• Pros
  • Should reach full strength by the mid-game
  • Versatile deck build you can swap around easily, as long as you keep Dialga
  • Durable cards that should survive unless the foe has a strong early game play
• Cons
  • Vulnerable to both Fire and Electric types, both of which are common in the meta
  • Neither the early-game or late-game are where you thrive.

Charizard ex deck

The Charizard ex deck is a fire-type deck that has Moltres power up the star of the show, which stays on the bench until it's ready to tear through opponents. To build your own Charizard ex deck, you'll need:

• Charmander x2
• Charmeleon x2
• Charizard ex x2
• Moltres ex x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x2
• X Speed x2
• Red Card x2
• Professor's Research x2
• Sabrina x2

Charizard ex has the most powerful attack in the game right now, its Crimson Storm capable of doing 200 damage to the enemy's active Pokemon. Unfortunately, it discards two energy cards in being used, so the goal here is to keep Charizard benched while Moltres is active and fuels it up with repeated uses of Inferno Dance. Once Charizard has at least 5 energy, you can swap their places and tear through the opponent's team.

The downside is similar to Mewtwo's: the lengthy setup. You need to find Charmander in the deck and then evolve it twice, something that can take a lot of time if you're unlucky in your card draws. Use Sabrina, your Potions and Red Cards to buy yourself time until you're ready to retaliate - and if your opponent brings in Starmie ex, you might as well give up there and then. With the Pokemon TCG Pocket Mass Fire Outbreak event having arrived, we expect to see more Fire decks coming into circulation, many of which will be building towards this kind of structure.

If you want a more detailed idea about how this deck works, or alternatives for builds, we've got a dedicated page on the Pokemon TCG Pocket Charizard ex deck here.

• Pros
  • Unrivalled attack power
  • Inferno Dance is a swift energy-creation method
  • Charmander/Charmeleon are both powerful in their own right
• Cons
  • Shaky early game
  • Somewhat chance-dependent (Inferno Dance and drawing the right cards)
  • Crimson Storm discards precious energy cards in being used

Venusaur ex deck

Venusaur ex and grass decks are the only options in Pokemon TCG Pocket for healing and recovery on a major level. If that appeals to you, here's the build:

• Bulbasaur x2
• Ivysaur x2
• Venusaur ex x2
• Petilil x2
• Lilligant x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x1
• X Speed x2
• Erika x2
• Professor's Research x2
• Sabrina x1

You can shuffle around the exact numbers of items to taste, but ultimately the goal here is to get Lilligant active on the field so it can then provide energy to the Bulbasaur on the bench. You play defensively, healing and controlling, all the while evolving Bulbasaur to the Venusaur ex. Once you're done, swap them around and bring in the big grass frog.

Venusaur ex's Giant Bloom does 100 damage while healing it for 30 every turn - not to mention the fact that it's pretty tanky at 190 HP. Unless your opponent is running a Charizard deck as shown above, it should be impossible to one-shot your team mascot. If you want some alternate variants for the deck, try bringing in Exeggutor ex early on, or having Caterpie to more quickly draw Pokemon cards.

• Pros
  • Venusaur is a sturdy tank
  • Erika is a powerful healing card
  • Lilligant is a good energy provider
• Cons
  • Lacks major firepower
  • Dependent on good draws
  • Fire decks are common right now

Marowak ex deck

A good budget and beginner deck for Pokemon TCG Pocket, this fighting-type Marowak ex deck is simple in concept and execution.

• Cubone x2
• Marowak ex x2
• Diglett x2
• Dugtrio x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x2
• X Speed x2
• Sabrina x2
• Giovanni x2
• Professor's Research x2

There's been a few variants of this deck floating around, using regular Marowaks, Kabutops, Primeape and Hitmonlee (among others), but this is our preferred build. Both Dugtrio and Marowak ex have strong early game performances, but are also pretty reliant on chance, with a lot of coin flips. Marowak ex does 80 damage for each head in two coin flips (meaning somewhere between 0 and 160), while Dugtrio has a 50% chance to become invulnerable to all damage and effects for a turn, every turn. I've won games on the strength of that latter ability alone. Not to mention that with so many people running Pikachu ex and electric type decks, this serves as a good counter.

It's not perfect though. Marowak ex's reliance on chance means that you can get ruined by some bad coin flips, and the deck lacks heavy, dependable firepower. The key here is to do heavy damage in the early game, and hope your opponent can't recover.

• Pros
  • Strong early game
  • Good counter against the common electric decks
  • When coin flips go your way, you're unstoppable!
• Cons
  • Weak late game
  • Lacks massive damage options
  • When coin flips don't go your way, you're in trouble...

Koga deck

This dark-type poison deck budget friendly, yet demands a veteran's experience, all about control and careful manipulation of the battlefield, poisoning the opponent and whittling them down instead of utilizing single-hit super-attacks. Here's the most commonly used deck build in the meta right now:

• Koffing x2
• Weezing x2
• Ekans x2
• Arbok x2
• Poke Ball x2
• Potion x2
• X Speed x2
• Koga x2
• Sabrina x2
• Professor's Research x2

This one is a little tricky to learn and get the hang of, but there's a lot of potential, especially to counter the common Mewtwo psychic deck that's dominating the meta. You bring out Koffing and Weezing for a strong, cheap early game tank that poisons the enemy, then use Koga to pull them back to your hand for free when you're ready (healing them in the process). With the enemy poisoned, you bring in Arbok, forcing them to stay on the battlefield as the active Pokemon, as Arbok's "Corner" attack disables the ability to retreat.

It's very based on control, and if the opponent does manage to bring their wounded Pokemon back to the bench, you use Sabrina to get them back out. It's a deck that's good at disrupting strategies, though it lacks heavy damage and usually falters in the late game. We've also seen some people doing a variant where they take out Koga, Weezing and Koffing and swap them with Pidgey, Pidgeotto and Pidgeot, controlling the field with the latter's ability and locking Pokemon into place with Arbok.

• Pros
  • Budget friendly, no ex cards requires
  • Powerful early game
  • Counters the psychic Mewtwo meta
• Cons
  • No heavy firepower
  • Struggles against tanky cards
  • Weak late game

Of course, if you're focused more on form over function, find out how the Pokemon TCG Pocket flair system works and how to add cosmetics to your cards here!

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