Pokémon
This Team Rocket card from Shining Revelry is one of the most powerful cards in all of Pokémon TCG Pocket
Team Rocket Grunt is one of the most important and potentially devastating cards in the new Shining Revelry miniset in Pokémon TCG Pocket.
Shining Revelry, the new Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion, is here. It is a miniset with 111 new cards that have turned the meta upside down. As usual, to help you figure out which cards are the best, this time we have a mini guide focusing on one of the most important cards. This is Team Rocket Grunt, a card that can win the game on its own if we get lucky and use it at the right time.
How to obtain the Team Rocket Grunt card in Pokémon TCG Pocket, and what is the strategy?
Team Rocket Grunt is a card that can be randomly obtained by opening any envelope from the Shining Revelry miniset, and it comes in two versions: standard and super rare. If we don’t have any luck opening the boosters, we can buy each standard copy for 70 pack points, and each super rare copy for 1,250 pack points. In both cases, remember that each opened envelope gives us 5 free points, which we can only spend on cards of the expansion it belongs to.
The strategy for the Team Rocket Grunt card requires two things: luck, since it involves flipping coins, and the ability to visualize when it will do more damage to our opponent. This card has a very simple task, but it can be devastating: we flip a coin until it comes up tails, but for each heads, we discard one random Energy from the opponent’s active Pokémon. In other words, it is a control card that gives us a resource advantage. If we succeed, we can render their powerful Pokémon completely useless and at the mercy of our attacks, because they have no Energy to use for their moves.
This is a card that has the potential to completely redefine the metagame. Its mere presence could cause high-level players to favor fast decks with Pokémon that can be used to their full potential with little Energy, for example. Its use against “slow” Pokémon that require a thorough setup, or with different types of Energy such as Dragonite, makes those decks less viable.
Although it seems like an extremely powerful card, it should be noted that it has a balance built into it: its dependence on coin flips. This means that there will be times when using it will have no effect due to bad luck, or that it will not remove all of the necessary Energy from the opponent’s Active Pokémon to prevent it from attacking. This puts it on par with other very popular ones like Misty, which adds Water Energy to our Active Pokémon via coin flips. Ironically, since Team Rocket’s use of Recruits is the opposite - draining Energy - this makes it their perfect counter.
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