So, in order to use this Charizard in our deck, we’ll need to include both Charmander and Charmeleon so that we can evolve up into it. Our Charizard evolves from Charmeleon, but Charizard VMAX evolves from Charizard V, not from Charmeleon!

As with the name of a Pokémon being important for the number of each Pokémon you can include in a deck, the name of the Pokémon that it evolves from is important. In the Pokémon Trading Card Game, any Pokémon that must evolve from a prior evolution will show you a picture of that prior evolution on the card below its evolution stage text (“Stage 2”, for example) and will say “Evolves from” and the name of the Pokémon it evolves from next to that picture. Once, from its Basic Pokémon into a Stage 1 Pokémon-in this case, Charmander into Charmeleon, and again from its Stage 1 Pokémon into the Stage 2 Pokémon-in this case, Charmeleon into Charizard. A Stage 2 Pokémon is a Pokémon that has evolved twice. The Charizard we’re building around for our deck is a Stage 2 Pokémon. Now, although Charizard is a powerful Pokémon, Charizard TEU 14 is not a basic Pokémon. Having multiple copies of the same cards helps to ensure that these important cards can be found when we need them. Whenever possible, it’s important to include as many copies of the most important cards in your deck. If a particular deck strategy is popular where we intend to play the deck we’re building, we’ll need to take it into account as we build our own deck so that our own strategy is able to succeed.īecause Charizard is central to our deck’s strategy and is our main attacker, it is critical that we include as many copies as we can, so we’ll start by including 4 copies.

It’s important to be familiar with each of these strategies as we build our deck. The link below summarizes the four basic strategies employed in a deck-Aggression, Control, Mill, and Stall. Many players will intuitively learn the four basic deck strategies as they play games-playing more and more games of the Pokémon Trading Card Game is, after all, the best way to become a better player, but when building a deck it’s important for us to choose a strategy from the very beginning so that as we choose the sixty cards that will make up our deck, they all contribute to executing that strategy as swiftly and as consistently as possible. A deck must be more than just a cluttered mess of Pokémon, Trainer, and Energy cards-there needs to be an inherent Synergy, or beneficial and strategic interaction, between all of the cards in your deck. Before you begin crafting your first deck, it’s important to understand the strategies that decks employ to win games and to choose one of those strategies as a central focus of your deck.

Evolve stage 2 rotation