Summary

It’s now close to a week sincePokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’sSpace-Time Smackdown expansion launched, and the battling meta is starting to take shape. While it’s definitely being dominated by Darkrai ex, with the Dark-type Pokemon taking upseven of the top eight spots at a recent tournament, players are still trying to get creative with their decks.

The latest attempt seems to be flying a little under the radar, and features Cresselia ex, which iscurrently featured in a Drop Event, and Gardevoir.

The Cresselia ex Drop Event banner, showing the Cresselia ex card with a face-down card behind it.

Cresselia ex And Gardevoir Could Be A Pain In Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket

Now, this deck isn’t perfect and relies on you being able to evolve a pair of Gardevoir pretty early on to help reach its full potential, but that potential is pretty high, even against Dark-type decks that involve the formidable Darkrai ex.

First shared on the Pokemon TCG Pocketsubredditby userElastiskalinjen, this deck leans heavily on Cresselia ex’s Lunar Plumage ability, which heals 20 damage every time an energy is attached to it. With a pair of Gardevoirs on the bench using their Psy Shadow ability, you can theoretically heal 60 damage per turn from Cresselia. Having a pair of Cresselia means you can retreat and sub them out at any time.

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Darkrai ex, with its type advantage and Nightmare Aura ability, can technically hit Cresselia ex for 120 damage each turn; using the above strategy, that’s halved to 60. Throw in a couple of potions and Giant Capes, and Cresselia ex has some decent survivability. Hitting for 80 damage each turn is nothing to sniff at, either.

As things stand, according toLimitless TCG, the Cresselia ex/Gardevoir combination doesn’t even feature in the top 50 most-popular decks, and only time will tell if it grows in popularity.

You could imagine this deck having a little bit more versatility if Darkrai ex was weak against Fighting-types, rather than the Grass-types that it is, as it would be the perfect counter to Darkrai counters, but for now, it’s quite a niche deck that looks like itcouldhave use as an alternative toMewtwo ex.