Pokemon TCG Pocket’s latest themed expansion, Mythical Island, introduces a wide variety of new cards, despite only featuring 80 new cards total. While exciting additions like Mew EX and Celebi EX are clear standouts from the Mythical Island expansion, one card added toPokemon TCG Pocketin this set might be flying under some players' radars. In a meta dominated by powerful EX cards, the Pokemon Flute trainer card could help popularize a new deck type that focuses on knocking out an opponent’s benched cards rather than the one in their active slot.
Trainer cards tend to be the undersung backbone of a player’s deck, offering abilities crucial to bringing out the deck’s full power. So far,Pokemon TCG Pockethas seen its fair share ofpowerful trainer cards like Mistyand Sabrina, and the Pokemon Flute card added in Mythical Island could be the next one to join the upper ranks of the game’s trainer cards. While it may appear unassuming at first, players can combine its ability with a few different critters to wreak havoc on their opponent’s bench.
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How Pokemon Flute Lets Players Devastate the Opponent’s Bench
Pokemon Flute’s abilityallows players to take one Basic Pokemon from their opponent’s discard pile and put it on their bench. While this may seem like an ability that gives the opponent an edge, players can take advantage of lower-powered Basic Pokemon and cards that deal damage to the opponent’s bench to quickly tear through their team. Setting this strategy up early can have a huge payoff, making Pokemon Flute a valuable card for players to include in their deck.
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One way players can take advantage of Pokemon Flute’s ability is to play it in adeck with cards like Seadra, Lumineon, and Articuno EX. All of these cards have the power to damage the opponent’s benched Pokemon, potentially scoring a knockout while the opposing player is still setting up their strategy. Players can then use Pokemon Flute to ideally bring back a weak Basic Pokemon from the discard pile to their opponent’s bench and repeat the same strategy until victory is achieved.
Pokemon Flute Pairs Perfectly with Victreebel
Another popular deck to play using Pokemon Flute involves manipulating the opponent’s active Pokemon withVictreebel’s Fragrance Trapability. This ability allows players to switch their opponent’s active Pokemon with one on their bench once per turn, as long as Victreebel is the player’s active card. Doing so can potentially throw a wrench in an opponent’s strategy by forcing them to switch out the EX card they’ve set up with a weaker Basic card and risk either taking a KO or wasting energy to pay the retreat cost of the Basic card that was dragged in.
What makes thisPokemon TCG Pocketdeck so strongis that players can pair it with Pokemon Flute to bring that weak card they just knocked out back to their opponent’s bench, swapping it back to the active position again with Fragrance Trap to set it up for another knockout. Victreebel has only one attack, Vine Whip, that deals 60 damage, so ideally, players will want to capitalize on an opponent’s card that has 60 or less HP to carry out this strategy. While Victreebel is fairly tanky with 140 HP, it is also a second-stage card, meaning it may take some time to properly set this tactic up, but the potential payoff should be worth it as players can quickly sweep an opponent if played correctly.
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Experience the fun of collecting Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) cards with Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, an upcoming game for iOS and Android devices from Creatures Inc., the original developers of the Pokémon TCG, and DeNA Co., Ltd. In this game, you will be able to open two booster packs every day at no cost. You can collect digital cards featuring nostalgic artwork from the past as well as brand-new cards that are exclusive to Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket.Be on the lookout for new “immersive cards,” which will make you feel as though you’ve leapt into the world of the card’s illustration.
