Furthermore, the ability of Dragon Steam for the cost of one water energy card can deal 60 base damage to the opponent’s pokémon, but the value changes to 20 if the opponent has a fire pokémon in play. It is a card that allows players to boost their damage throughout the Forspoken Game features, instead of focusing on a one-time hit, and provides consistency to the player’s gameplay, helping him/her to attack benched pokémon and knock out as many as possi
Both of Seismitoad’s abilities are quite powerful, with Quaking Punch restricting the opponent from using an item card during the next turn, and Grenade Hammer dealing 130 with an additional and negligible 30 damage to two benched Pokemons of the player. Complimentary cards that make it even more powerful include Hypnotoxic Laser, Muscle Band, and Virbank City
Paralyzed is a special condition that renders a Pokemon unable to move or retreat for one turn. At their turn end, they lose this condition and return to normal. By itself, this effect simply locks a foe down for a turn, which can be very useful, though the best implementation of this ailment is to combine it with damage to widdle a foe's health away while preventing them from fighting b
This finishing blow will take some time to set up, even with energy search cards, however, the Grass-typing of this Ultra Beast duo grants trainers some great ways to build up energy relatively quickly. Pokemon cards of this type sometimes carry abilities that can attach energy cards from one's deck, hand, or discard pile to an ally with little to no effort, so a Grass deck themed around this should be able to bring out Pheromosa & Buzzwole's true potent
With the use of supporters like Copycat and Judge, players can easily reach the same number of cards as their opponent and use this incredible ability that Yanmega has. The two other attacks in Yanmega’s arsenal include Linear Attack and Sonicboom, the first of which allows the player to deal 40 damage to any of the opponent’s Pokémon including benched ones, and the second one deals a damage of 70 but isn’t affected by the defending Pokémon having a resistance or weakness. While there are separate costs for each of these attacks, after using Insight, it all comes down to z
Virizion EX is a Basic Pokémon with 170 HP and belongs to the Black & White - Plasma Blast expansion of the franchise. This ultra-rare card boasts of a powerful ability Verdant Wind, which protects each of the player’s Pokémon that has a grass energy-card attached to it from being affected by any Special Condition. If Special Conditions are already imposed on any Pokémon of the player with grass energy attached to it, this ability removes them instan
Asleep is another special condition that prevents the opponent from attacking or retreating, though it differs from Paralysis. At the end of a sleeping Pokemon's turn, their trainer flips a coin. If heads, the Pokemon awakens, and if tails, it stays asl
Jigglypuff, the famous singing-balloon Pokémon from Gen I, enjoys a blissful scene on a windy hillside in this delightful painting. It is quite impressive how this card seems to be barely modified from the original
If one is running this Tag Team duo in a Psychic deck , it may be the only card that one needs to play in the Active position, as they can essentially channel the strength of an entire team. Furthermore, if one's pokemon are running low on health, the Miraculous Duo GX attack can dish out great damage while fully healing all friendly pokemon, including themsel
Tag Team cards are a variation in the Pokemon TCG of GX cards that depict 2 pokemon who usually share at least 1 type. To make things a bit less chaotic, all Tag Team cards are considered Basic pokemon , even if the card depicts an evolved mons
Belonging to the XY-BREAKthrough expansion, Octillery is a stage 1 Pokémon with 90 HP and evolves itself from Remoraid. Having abilities such as Hug, which can stop the defending player from retreating at the cost of water-water-colorless energy cards, Octillery’s most powerful ability is Abyssal Hand, which allows the player to draw cards once during their turn and before they att
Confused is potentially the most adverse of all the special conditions if the afflicted is unlucky. When suffering from this status ailment, the Pokemon's trainer will have to flip a coin each time they wish to attack. If heads, the attack goes as planned, but if tails, their Pokemon takes 30 damage instead of performing their intended m
Vileplume has been a hugely powerful Pokémon in its various iterations over the years, including cards like Vileplume EX, Dark Vileplume, and Vileplume belonging to the Undaunted expansion. These were effective cards to use when planning to shut off Trainer and Item Ca
Kyurem is a Basic-type pokémon with 130 HP, which belongs to the Plasma Freeze expansion. Equipped with Frost Spear, Kyurem can deal 30 damage to one of the opponent's benched pokémon at the cost of one water and one colorless energy card. It also has the ability of Blizzard Burn, which deals 120 damage for two water and one colorless energy card, but it restricts Kyurem from attacking in the next ro
