The final two Pokémon TCG Pocket units, Celestial Guardians and Extradimensional Disaster, noticed monumental shifts to the meta, with sooner, extra constant playing cards resulting in among the strongest decks within the Pokémon TCG Pocket meta. Eevee Grove isn’t fairly as massive for aggressive play, nevertheless it does carry fairly just a few playing cards which might be fascinating on the very least.
Eevee Grove brings a number of latest playing cards to assist and strengthen Eevee decks, which… certain. Do you need to be working an Eevee deck? Most likely not! However in case you do, this enlargement brings a number of choices and additions that make that ever barely extra viable.
We’ve gone by means of each card within the set to provide you with this listing of the very best playing cards added in Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Eevee Grove enlargement.
Espeon is by far essentially the most highly effective card within the Eevee Grove enlargement, and one of many solely playing cards right here that’s more likely to make it into aggressive viability. On its face it doesn’t appear significantly particular, however its assault, Vitality Crush, solely prices one Psychic vitality and offers 20 harm for every Vitality hooked up to your opponent’s Pokémon. Like, any of their Pokémon, energetic or on the bench. That is the primary card of its kind, and given there are a number of decks that spam boatloads of vitality onto the bench to arrange a sweeper, this can be a card that has one of many highest harm potentials within the recreation. In case you’re working a Psychic deck, undoubtedly think about it.
Talking of Psychic decks, Sylveon ex is a reasonably respectable Psychic-type ex card that, whereas not significantly highly effective, has a number of potential. When Sylveon ex is positioned onto the sector, evolving an Eevee or Eevee ex, you get to attract 2 playing cards, successfully supplying you with a free Professor’s Analysis that doesn’t restrict your capacity to play one other supporter. You may use this along with Professor’s Analysis to maximise your draw energy, or use it instead of the staple supporter card, releasing up slots in your restricted deck listing that may be devoted to different playing cards to make your deck extra constant.
Eevee ex just isn’t a very highly effective card, however it’s fascinating. Sometimes, a stage 1 card can’t evolve from a primary Pokémon ex card, however Eevee ex has a particular capacity that permits you to evolve it into any Pokémon that evolves from Eevee. That’s a extremely versatile capacity, and it offers you a lot choices for constructing an Eevee deck. For instance, you should utilize it to present your self 4 Eevee to make use of as your primary Pokémon lineup – two common Eevee and two Eevee ex – one thing that may usually be unimaginable and provides you a big quantity of consistency. You may as well run each Pokémon ex and non-Pokémon ex playing cards that evolve from Eevee, and select from them relying on the state of affairs, supplying you with a number of flexibility.
I sincerely want this was going to be competitively viable, however I strongly suspect it gained’t be, which is a disgrace as a result of it’s some of the fascinating additions to TCG Pocket to this point. A number of Pokémon playing cards within the Eevee Grove enlargement have an assault referred to as Sweets Relay, they usually all do largely the identical factor: deal a bit of injury, and deal a bit extra if Sweets Relay was utilized by some other Pokémon within the earlier flip. That’s a reasonably enjoyable thought, and it’s all held collectively by Alcremie, which has an assault referred to as Sweets Overload, which offers 40 harm for each time you’ve used Sweets Relay all through your complete recreation. With simply 4 or 5 makes use of of Sweets Relay, you’d be dealing sufficient harm to knock out even essentially the most highly effective Pokémon ex playing cards.
However that’s a number of setup, and TCG Pocket is getting sooner with each new enlargement. I don’t suppose you’ll be capable of compete in Ranked with a deck that builds on this, as a result of most video games are achieved inside 4 or 5 turns, nevertheless it could possibly be a enjoyable deck for grinding by means of solo challenges.
Most playing cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket have one impact and that’s it. Eevee Bag is totally different, providing two totally different results that you would be able to select between once you play the cardboard. One impact permits you to do 10 further harm when attacking with Pokémon that evolve from Eevee, whereas the opposite impact permits you to heal 20 harm from every Pokémon that evolves from Eevee in your area — each the bench and the energetic spot. Each results are fairly good, the therapeutic particularly, and having one card that may do both frees up a number of area in your deck… in case you’re taking part in an Eevee deck. That’s extra viable than ever with this set in comparison with the previous, and there are many choices throughout all of the units to take action, however we’ll have to attend and see if anybody could make it work.
Leftovers is a quite simple Pokémon Instrument card that I may undoubtedly see getting some small quantity of play in aggressive decks. In case you connect it to a Pokémon, it’ll heal by 10 HP on the finish of every of your individual turns. It will be significantly better if it healed on the finish of each flip, however nonetheless, well being is well being, and it’s simply ok that in just a few area of interest decks or in a deck with a niche within the deck listing, it’s in all probability value working.
One of the thrilling elements of Pokémon TCG Pocket is taking dangers. Playing cards like Misty and Celebi ex depend on coin flips to do a lot of something in any respect, and whereas minimizing and mitigating these dangers is a key facet of deckbuilding, typically that you must lean into the chance. Penny is a supporter card that encourages you to do precisely that, letting you choose a random supporter card in your opponent’s deck, utilizing it for your self, then shuffling it again into their deck.
To be clear, that is a particularly dangerous technique, as a result of there’s a reasonably cheap likelihood that you find yourself getting a card that you would be able to’t threat, nevertheless it’s additionally a really highly effective card. If you wish to roll the cube, you may minimize out playing cards like Professor’s Analysis and attempt to use your opponent’s as an alternative. This might tie in with an Eevee/Sylveon ex deck, which doesn’t essentially want Professor’s Analysis within the first place, nevertheless it’s nonetheless dangerous. Reside slightly, give it a go.
