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 a number of the strongest decks within the Pokémon TCG Pocket meta. Eevee Grove isn’t fairly as massive for aggressive play, however it does deliver fairly just a few playing cards which can be fascinating on the very least.
Eevee Grove brings a number of latest playing cards to help and strengthen Eevee decks, which… positive. Do you need to be operating an Eevee deck? In all probability not! However in the event you do, this enlargement brings a number of choices and additions that make that ever barely extra viable.
We’ve gone via each card within the set to provide you with this listing of the perfect 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 injury 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 sort, and given there are a whole lot of decks that spam boatloads of vitality onto the bench to arrange a sweeper, it is a card that has one of many highest injury potentials within the recreation. Should you’re operating a Psychic deck, undoubtedly contemplate it.
Talking of Psychic decks, Sylveon ex is a reasonably first rate Psychic-type ex card that, whereas not significantly highly effective, has a whole lot of potential. When Sylveon ex is positioned onto the sector, evolving an Eevee or Eevee ex, you get to attract 2 playing cards, successfully providing you with a free Professor’s Analysis that doesn’t restrict your skill to play one other supporter. You can use this at the side of Professor’s Analysis to maximise your draw energy, or use it rather than the staple supporter card, liberating 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 skill that permits you to evolve it into any Pokémon that evolves from Eevee. That’s a extremely versatile skill, and it provides you a lot choices for constructing an Eevee deck. For instance, you need to use it to provide your self 4 Eevee to make use of as your primary Pokémon lineup – two common Eevee and two Eevee ex – one thing that might usually be not possible and provides you a big quantity of consistency. You can even run each Pokémon ex and non-Pokémon ex playing cards that evolve from Eevee, and select from them relying on the state of affairs, providing you with a whole lot 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 probably the most fascinating additions to TCG Pocket thus far. A bunch of Pokémon playing cards within the Eevee Grove enlargement have an assault known as Sweets Relay, and so they all do largely the identical factor: deal a bit of harm, and deal a bit extra if Sweets Relay was utilized by some other Pokémon within the earlier flip. That’s a reasonably enjoyable concept, and it’s all held collectively by Alcremie, which has an assault known as Sweets Overload, which offers 40 injury 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 injury to knock out even essentially the most highly effective Pokémon ex playing cards.
However that’s a whole lot 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 carried out inside 4 or 5 turns, however it might be a enjoyable deck for grinding via 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 may select between whenever you play the cardboard. One impact enables you to do 10 further injury when attacking with Pokémon that evolve from Eevee, whereas the opposite impact enables you to heal 20 injury from every Pokémon that evolves from Eevee in your area — each the bench and the energetic spot. Each results are fairly good, the therapeutic specifically, and having one card that may do both frees up a whole lot of area in your deck… in the event 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 Device card that I may undoubtedly see getting some small quantity of play in aggressive decks. Should you connect it to a Pokémon, it would heal by 10 HP on the finish of every of your personal turns. It might 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 spot within the deck listing, it’s in all probability value operating.
One of the crucial 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 side of deckbuilding, generally you have to 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 an especially dangerous technique, as a result of there’s a reasonably cheap probability that you find yourself getting a card that you may’t threat, however it’s additionally a really highly effective card. If you wish to roll the cube, you possibly can minimize out playing cards like Professor’s Analysis and attempt to use your opponent’s as a substitute. This might tie in with an Eevee/Sylveon ex deck, which doesn’t essentially want Professor’s Analysis within the first place, however it’s nonetheless dangerous. Stay a bit of, give it a go.
