One New Celestial Guardians Card Is Going To Give Pokemon TCG Pocket’s Meta It’s Biggest Shake-Up, Impacting Dozens Of Cards
Summary
- The introduction of Rare Candy in the Celestial Guardians expansion is set to create a new era in the game's meta.
- Rare Candy disrupts the dominant Basic ex meta in Pokemon TCG Pocket, allowing for faster evolution to Stage 2.
- Cards like Charizard ex, Gallade ex, Beedrill ex, and Fossil-evolving Pokemon will benefit from Rare Candy.
While Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket's expansions seem to release at lightning speed, making life difficult for collectors, it helps to keep the game's meta fresh, not allowing one deck or archetype to dominate for too long.
Shining Revelry added Giratina ex which quickly went on to dominate, before that, Space-Time Smackdown introduced the deadly Palkia ex, and in Mythical Island, Celebi ex and Serperior ruled the roost.
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Make way for Meowscarada.
Posts 2 By Sam WoodsYesterday, DeNA and The Pokemon Company revealed the game's next expansion, Celestial Guardians, and one card, the Rare Candy, could be about to mix things up in a way that's never been seen.
Rare Candy Is Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket's New Meta Buster
Rare Candy is a card that sees play in many of the top real-world Pokemon Trading Card Game decks, and Pokemon TCG Pocket is likely to be no different.
It allows players to evolve a Basic Pokemon straight into a Stage 2 Pokemon, bypassing the need for its middle evolution. This gives players the opportunity to ramp up their play significantly quicker.
Currently, the Pokemon TCG Pocket meta is dominated by Basic ex cards, or powerful cards that require no evolution. Cards like Giratina ex, Darkrai ex, Arceus ex, and Palkia ex, have all dominated because they can enter the field of play immediately, but that's all about to change with Rare Candy.
Discussions have already begun on the TCG Pocket subreddit, with players figuring out which cards will now be viable thanks to the new item, and there were some clear answers.
Genetic Apex and Shining Revelry's Charizard exs were both seen as big winners. These two Fire-type cards were seen as powerful, yet difficult to use, due to their slow ramp-up speeds. Rare Candy should help to bypass that.
Gallade ex was another card cited to benefit from the item, as was Beedrill ex, which will likely be a menace now, being able to hit for 80 damage and removing an opponent's energy card on turn two, especially when combined with Meowscarada, which also benefits from Rare Candy.
One final wave of Pokemon likely to benefit from Rare Candy is those that evolve from Fossils. The likes of Rampardos and Aerodactyl ex are likely to be even more competitive from here on out.
We truly are in a new era.
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