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Pokémon TCG: The 10 Most Powerful Psychic-Type Cards

Pokémon TCG: The 10 Most Powerful Psychic-Type Cards

With assisting Pokémon like Mew and Dusknoir, Accelgor becomes even more powerful, forcing the defending Pokémon to be stuck in the active place, while dealing significant damages to the opponent’s be

Luxray is a stage two pokémon that belongs to the Ultra Prism expansion of the series and has a unique ability called Intimidating Fang. Intimidating Fang is extremely resourceful, as it allows players to protect their pokémon from the opponent's attacks by receiving 30 damage less than what they would have originally received. However, Luxray needs to be in the Active Pokémon s

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

Either way, this locks the adversary's Active Pokemon down for at least one turn, if not longer. With this opening, Light Dewgong is free to frigidly landscape as it pleases with many Ice Pillar atta

Hailing from the XY expansion, Electrode is meant to be used as a super battery for powerful Electric-type pokémon—albeit at the cost of one Prize Card—since this ability knocks Electrode out and transforms it into a Special-Energy Card, providing two electric energy to whichever Electric-type pokémon tcg pocket 24 hourglasses distribution it has been attached

The Pokemon series has an extensive history of innovation and experimentation. In every new Generation, Nintendo and the various developers of Pokemon media franchises implement aspects meant to keep these pocket monsters relevant and interesting for each new generation of gamers. This sometimes involves them using peripheral devices in conjunction with existing conso

Draining Cut can be handy if one is lacking HP and wants to do a bit of damage at the same time. However, Triple Cutter is the main reason to use this card. With the potential to deal 90 damage, it is one of the better Crystal Pokemon atta

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

During the launch of the main Generation 2 Pokemon games, the TCG released related cards in the Neo Destiny expansion that reflected the direction the franchise was heading. With a heavier focus on the morality of trainers and how Pokemon are treated by NPCs in-game, two new groups were establis

Certain status conditions afflict Pokemon in different ways. Being Paralyzed will force the card to be turned clockwise on the field, Asleep will turn it counter-clockwise, and Confused will set it upside down. These three cannot usually be active at the same time but Pokemon suffering from one of these can also be Poisoned, much like in Butterfree V's att

Vespiquen is a Stage 1 Pokémon from the Ancient Origins expansion, having two abilities, Intelligence Gathering and Bee Revenge. The relevant attack that needs to be taken into consideration is the second one, which requires two colorless energy and deals a damage of 20, plus an additional 10 damage for every Pokémon that the player has in his/her discard p

Yanmega Prime from the Triumphant expansion is a Stage 1 Pokémon with 110 HP and has a list of three unique abilities, each of which is extremely powerful and useful. The first ability is the Poké-Body ability called Insight, which allows the player to use each of Yanmega’s attacks for zero energy-cost if the player and the opponent happen to have the same number of cards on their ha

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

Initially, Decidueye GX was a huge success in decks revolving around it, owing to the existence of Forest Giant Plant cards like Vileplume (before it got banned), but later molded itself to act as a brilliant supporting Pokémon for cards like Golisopod and Zoro

Since most Electric-type pokémon require a strange combination of 2-electric and 1-colorless energy to mete out their attacks, having this stage one pokémon in the deck can prove to be extremely use

Attacks and Abilities that result in more energy getting attached to one's Active or Bench Pokemon can lead to a whole team being ready to attack at any moment. Spare energies can even be used as emergency retreat resour

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