Belonging to the Guardians Rising expansion, Garbodor is a stage 1 pokémon with 120 HP. Its first attack, Trashalanch,e is uniquely useful, allowing players to deal damage of 20 multiplied by the number of Item Cards that the opponent has in his/her h

Its most powerful trait is the Raging Thunder attack, which can set up potential one-hit-knock-out scenarios for most pokémon with its 120 damage capacity. Although this attack deals damage of 40 to one of the player's Benched Pokémon, if used intelligently with cards like Acerola or Taurus GX on the bench, Zapdos is capable of being extremely use

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

Gengar is a 110 HP stage 2 pokémon belonging to the Psychic-type and hails from the Storm Front expansion of PTCG. The entirety of this card is brilliant, with abilities such as Fainting Spell, Shadow Room, and Poltergeist being killer moves to use in a game. The first ability, Fainting Spell, allows players to turn the tables by knocking out the opponent’s pokémon if Gengar gets knocked out, by a simple toss of a coin, thereby allowing the player a 50-50 chance of achieving this f

The Pokemon Power of this Ghost-type , Deep Sleep, makes it very difficult for the sleeping foe to awaken, requiring them to flip two coins without getting any tails. There is little defense or counter against this strategy, as opponents cannot recall Pokemon that are Asleep unless they use an item or Pokemon Power of their

Granted, Electrode has a low HP of 80, and its primary attack, Head Bolt, also deals low damage of 70, but the factor that makes this card extremely useful and powerful in the PTCG is its ability Buzzap Thun

In 2003, Nintendo released an e-reader device that could attach to the Game Boy Advance to allow players to scan special cards to enhance gameplay and add cool features to certain games. Crystal Pokemon were a type of card created specifically for this peripheral, though they could also function as cards in physical decks. Since the Pokemon TCG 's e-card series ended over a decade ago, Crystal Pokemon have become some of the rarest cards on the planet, though not all are equal. Some of these Crystal Pokemon are better to have in a battle than others due to their mightier mo

Celebi Prime is a Basic Pokémon, which belongs to the Triumphant expansion and has an HP of 60. It comes equipped with Poké-Powers Forest Breath and Time Circle. Forest Breath allows the player to attach one Grass energy-card to any of their Pokémon before making an attack if Celebi happens to be the active Pokémon in p

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

These fierce companions were released in the Unified Minds expansion and are a great card for any Dragon-type deck fueled by Psychic and Fighting energy. The Linear Attack is not remarkable by itself but opens up the foe to the effects of Calamitous Slash, which deals an extra 80 damage to injured foes on top of the base 160 dam

During the 2nd Generation of the Pokemon franchise's main series games, there were quite a few updates and additions to other forms of media as well. One of those was the Pokemon Trading Card Game , which received new types and card variants, such as Light and Dark Poke

Arguably the most powerful Psychic-type card in existence, this Basic 170 HP pokémon has the outstanding ability called X-Ball, which can prove to be devastating in advanced stages of the game when the opponent and the player are both setting up for big mo

However, what makes this move so powerful is an interesting fact, whereby Wizards of The Coast, the proprietors of Pokémon cards in America, did not issue an errata concerning a mistranslation with regards to this power. While this power was originally supposed to be used only when Slowking is the active pokémon slot, owing to the mistranslation, multiple Slowking’s saw an introduction into the play reducing the opponent’s chances of using a Trainer Card monumentally. Strangely enough, this card was never ban

It also has the attack Psychic Lock, which, at the cost of 1DCE and 1PE, deals 60 damage and locks the opponent from using any Poké-power of their pokémon during their next turn. The card has also been part of the World Championships winning deck in 2008 used by Jason Klaczyn

Rolling Thunder is also pretty good in that it deals decent damage and has the potential to hit all of the opposing team's Benched Pokemon for 10 HP each while landing 50 damage on the Active enemy. However, there is a coin flip involved that can lead to the user's own Benched Pokemon taking the stray bolts of this attack, therefore this move should be used with a bit of caut