Pokemon TCG: How To Make The Best Grass Deck

Light Dragonair also has the Protective Wave attack, which can potentially allow it to attack the foe with impunity. With a bit of luck on the required coin flips, this card can take out an opponent's Pokemon without receiving any dam


Therefore, players can always retreat, use cards like Guzma, or switching abilities, to deal the max damage from First Impression. The remaining two attacks of Golisopod GX makes it an even bigger monster. Armor Press, deals 100 damage, while also shielding Golisopod by reducing the opponent’s damage by 20 during their next turn. The GX attack Crossing Cut deals a damage of 150 while allowing the player to switch Golisopod GX with any of their benched Poké


The way to heal a Burn is by flipping a coin after taking damage and getting heads. Otherwise, a trainer can use a trainer card like Full Heal instead. While not particularly dangerous to foes with a lot of HP, unevolved Pokemon and those resistant to regular damage from fire attacks can be weakened or knocked out passively from a Burn, making it a useful secondary strat


Light Ledian is an interesting card because it has a move that affects other Pokemon for a consistent duration without the use of any counters or special identifiers. Flash Touch swaps this Active Bug-type with any other Pokemon on the trainer's Bench and essentially gives them a shield that protects them from special conditions while they are the Active Poke

There are two main types of energy in the Pokemon TCG : normal energy and special energy. Normal energies are cards that provide one unit of energy to one Pokemon. Special energies provide one, or more, energies to a selected Pokemon and may also have additional effe


Grass Pokemon are some of the most versatile in the series. They can deal out many types of special conditions, recover HP, and stall foes into submission. However, trying to do everything in one deck will leave a player without resources very quickly with many half-implemented strategies. Focusing on a few specific strengths is a better approach for succ


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


Poisoned is a special condition that applies 10 damage to an afflicted Pokemon each turn. Many Grass-types in the TCG , like Beedrill from the Champion's Path expansion, can apply this status ailment with very little cost and sometimes while doing decent dam


A few in the Sword & Shield expansion have this ability, like Celebi V . A few more Pokemon in the player's hand or Bench also gives them a bit of security in case the opponent has a trick up their sleeve. A great opening gambit, regardless of deck strat


This move is especially useful for players who use switching decks and allows them to trap the opponent in a loop of attacks. Furthermore, it only has a retreat cost of one-energy and has also been a part of a World’s Deck in 2012 because of Zachary Bohkari, a semifinalist in 2012's Junior Divis


Belonging to the Stormfront expansion, this stage 1 Water-type pokémon, has three unique abilities called Tail Revenge, Wreak Havoc, and Dragon Beat. Among these, the Tail Revenge ability, which requires zero damage is the most useful, allowing players to deal 30 damage multiplied by the number of Magikarp cards in his/her discard p


Heat [Fire] Energy cards are special energies introduced in the Darkness Ablaze expansion that came out during the summer of 2020. In addition to giving a Pokemon one Fire-type energy, they also heal the selected Pokemon for 20 HP upon being attached to them. Another excellent one is the Burning Energy card, which can be re-attached to a Fire-type Pokemon after it is used up by an att


When Dark Gyarados gets Knocked Out by an opponent's attack, Final Beam will activate and grant the trainer a special coin flip. If heads, the opposing Pokemon will take 20 damage for each Water-type energy attached to Dark Gyara


This ability is an extremely useful protection against cards like Hypnotoxic Laser and Virbank City Gym, protecting the player from poison attacks. It furthermore, provides the player with a secondary ability of Emerald Slash, which has a damage of 50 and allows him/her to search the deck for two grass energy-cards and attach the same to any of his/her benched Pokémon while being able to shuffle the deck as well after the ability has been u

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 SLG Game events, 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