Surge Forward
In war, the best defense is a good offense, and you've got plenty of offense. Voltorb and Diglett for fast attack, Raichu and Electabuzz to bring the real pain, and the mighty Zapdos for true air superiority.
Rock Solid
Beneath the rocky exterior of Pewter Gym beats a wild heart full of rock-hard determination. Master control of powerful, trampling Pokémon like Tauros, Pinsir, and Onix to crush your opponent into the ground.
Joyous Winter
Cool, calm and collected. Give your opponents the cold shoulder and shrug off their attacks by gaining life until you can counter with the mighty Articuno, or bring joy to the end of the game with Chansey.
Saffron Psychics
With Sabrina's help, you too can master Foresight. Divine your draws with scry effects, and control the game with counterspells and Pokémon like Starmie and Slowbro. Is an Alakazam in your future?
Flora Fatale
Poisonous plants, industrial waste, and ninjas join forces. Golbat and Gloom suck life from opponents while Victreebel and Venusaur beat them down, then Koga finishes them off.
Treasure Trove
The best way to win is at the expense of others. Return to Viridian Gym, where Meowth and Misdreavus create value you can leverage into a win only the most vile accountant could love.
Lightning Round
Leave your opponents lost and afraid! Exile your cards with Mareep and Twister, then either cast them again for incredible advantage, or use them to power out an unstoppable Aeroblast.
Land Grab
Explore the far reaches of Kanto and Johto. Croconaw and Shuckle aid you on your adventure to discover new lands. Can you uncover the secret of the Lake of Rage?
Willing Sacrifice
True Pokémon masters know that victory is something that requires sacrifice. Power your Cyndaquil and Magcargo with all the fuel you can feed them, and if all else fails, call on the power of the mighty Tyranitar to end the battle for good.
Family Matters
Your best friends are also your strongest support. Call on Hoppip and Ledyba to back you up until you turn the tables with Meganium and Jasmine. Sunflora can take your strength in numbers to the next level.
Pokécube is a custom, Pokémon-themed Magic: The Gathering cube. Pokécube: Kanto (PKTO) has the original Pokémon, trainers, moves, and locations from the first generation of Pokémon and can be played as a 360-card cube by itself. Pokécube: Johto (PJTO) adds the same from the second generation, and combines with Kanto to make a 540-card cube.
There are 285 unique cards in PKTO and 207 in PJTO, most of which are custom designs. For playing the 360-card PKTO cube, every common is used twice for a total of 360 cards. For playing the 540-card cube with PJTO, only common Pokémon are used twice.
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Set Mechanics
Evolve From
Most evolution happens by casting higher-stage Pokémon onto lower-stage Pokémon.
Evolve
Some Pokémon turn over to evolve, increasing power and toughness but keeping abilities.
Draft Archetypes
Lifegain
A lot of lifegain and cards that trigger when you gain life. There is also a subtheme of counterspells-matter that is most at home in this archetype. The deck generally plays as control.
Scry
Focuses on cards that scry or interact with scry effects in some way. It has access to a lot of the counterspells in the set as well as black removal, so can play a control role as well.
Sacrifice
Cares about players sacrificing permanents, either by forcing the opponent to sacrifice and get beneficial triggers or through mutual sacrifice after sculpting the board with red and black removal.
+1/+1 Counters
Looks for large Pokémon and ways to make them larger. The archetype has access to several green ramp spells to start dropping large threats as soon as possible.
Tokens
Creating token Pokémon and populating them is the goal here, with ways to create vanilla 1/1 tokens all the way up to 5/5 tokens with trample.
Treasure
Creates a lot of Treasure tokens and has cards that care about being cast with Treasure, when you sacrifice a Treasure, or the number of Treasures you control.
Exile
Self-exiles cards and has cards that trigger off of things going to exile or care about the cards you own in exile.
-1/-1 Counters
Generates -1/-1 counters and has various effects that care about -1/-1 counters in play or Pokémon dying with -1/-1 counters on them.
Aggro
Aggressive Pokémon meant to end the game as quickly as possible, along with effects that care about attacking. First strike, vigilance, and haste are common here.
Landfall
Playing multiple lands per turn to abuse landfall triggers. Fetch lands are prized here, as well as ramp spells.