Best Cards From Surging Sparks

One of the more powerful Pokemon TCG sets in the Scarlet & Violet era, Surging Sparks comes loaded with all sorts of incredible cards to build around, upgrade your decks with, and take down your opponents.

If you are a bit overwhelmed with everything this set has to offer, there’s no need to worry. Between some exceptionally strong Tera Pokemon to a couple of great Trainer cards, we have everything you need to build yourself a tournament-winning new deck.

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Flygon Ex

Can’t Touch This

Flygon Ex comes in with some guerilla tactics to harass your opponent’s Pokemon. For one Fighting Energy you can dish out 130 damage and then swap it in with another of your Benched Pokemon.

If you’re ready to deal some serious damage, you can attach a Water and a Steel Energy to Flygon Ex you can use its Sonic Peridot attack. This attack deals 100 damage to each of your opponent’s Pokemon ex and V, though your mileage might vary depending on what type of deck your opponents are running.

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Ceruledge Ex

Energy Machine

There is definitely a dedicated deck designed around Ceruledge ex that can be assembled relatively quickly to dish out some serious damage. With the Abyssal Flames attack costing just one Fire Energy, you can set it up on the first turn available, though it only deals 30 damage at the base level.

It gets a significant power-up for each Energy card in your discard pile, dealing 20 more damage for each one. Sure, you will need ten or more energies to start OHKOing some of the Pokemon with higher HP, but you can still take out a few lower HP Pokemon with some strategic attacks.

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Alolan Exeggutor Ex

Power Up The Board

Alolan Exeggutor ex is an absolute powerhouse of a card that, under the right circumstances, can accelerate the battlefield wildly in your favor and completely disrupt your opponent’s game plan. But in set filled to the brim with powerful cards, it is lower on the tier list.

The Tropical Frenzy attack both deals damage and accelerates your Energy strategy, dealing 150 damage and letting you attack any number of Basic Energies from your hand to your team in any way you like. You can come in on the text turn with Swinging Sphene for a win-win coin flip. If you hit heads, your opponent’s Active Basic Pokemon is instantly Knocked Out. On a tails, a Basic Pokemon from your opponent’s Bench is out.

Swinging Sphene only hits Basic Pokemon, so just keep that in mind before hinging on this attack.

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Lisia’s Appeal

Shake Ups All-Around

There’s no denying that Boss’s Orders is an incredibly important card for manipulating the battlefield, but Lisia’s Appeal does it with a little twist. Lisia’s Appeal has you switch out an opponent’s Benched Basic Pokemon to the Active Spot, leaving it confused instead.

Confusion is one of the Pokemon TCG’s many status effects and can be a frustrating one for your opponents. While it only works on Basic Pokemon, you can still mess up an opponent’s game plan with this Trainer card.

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Milotic ex

The Anti Tera

With all these Tera Pokemon running around it was only a matter of time before a Pokemon dropped that is immune to those Tera types. Sparkling Scales is a unique Milotic ex ability that prevents all damage and effects from attacks from your opponent’s Tera Pokemon.

Now that you’re safely hanging out in the Active Spot you are free to power up Milotic ex to its Hypno Splash attack, dealing a moderate 160 damage but automatically putting your opponent’s Pokemon straight to sleep.

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Sylveon ex

A Different Strategy

Sylveon ex is a new Tera Pokemon with a completely different strategy than what the Pokemon TCG generally follows. Magical Charm, Sylveon ex’s first attack, deals 160 damage while reducing the next incoming attack by 100 damage, which is a nice cushion for keeping Sylveon ex safe.

But Angelite is where Sylveon ex throws your opponents for a loop. You get to pick two of your opponent’s Pokemon from the Bench and force your opponent to shuffle them into their deck. Any attached cards are gone too, making it a fairly unique way to deal with a potential problem building on the board.

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Archaludon ex

The Iron Curtain

Coming in with a huge 300 HP, Archaludon ex is a steel wall on the battlefield, combining a bit of Energy acceleration, defense, and some solid damage all into one Pokemon. Its Assembled Alloy ability lets you take two Basic Metal Energy from your discard pile and attach them to your Metal Pokemon in any way you like.

Once you do, you can be two Energy closer to using its Metal Defender attack. This attack takes three Metal Energy to deal 220 damage. At the same time, it disables Archaludon ex’s weakness to Fire-type Pokemon until your next turn.

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Megaton Blower

An Ace Spec To Rule Them All

Ace Spec Trainer cards are exceptionally strong, they have to be to justify the one-per-deck limit that they all have. Megaton Blower comes with a huge effect, wiping all your opponent’s Pokemon Tools and Special Energy cards from all your opponent’s Pokemon, as well as whatever Stadium is currently in play.

This card can completely obliterate your opponent’s board, getting rid of everything but the Pokemon themselves. While it might be a tough choice to run Megaton Blower over other Ace Spec cards, it is certainly a strong contender depending on your meta.

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Hydreigon ex

Overwhelming Power Given Form

The Pokemon card that unleashes the most amount of damage in Surging Sparks is Hydregion ex, the Dark Tera Pokemon that also comes in with a ton of HP. Hydregion ex has two attacks, Crashing Headbutt and Obsidian.

Crashing Headbutt is a two Energy cost attack that not only deals 200 damage but also forces your opponent to discard the top three cards of their deck. The real power comes from Obsidian, which deals a lower 130 points of damage to your opponent’s Active Pokemon, and then an additional 130 damage to two of your opponent’s Benched Pokemon. This comes to a total of 390 points of damage distributed across three Pokemon, letting you either whittle down your opponent’s team or take three prize cards all at once.

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Pikachu ex

Everyone’s Favorite Back On Top

Not only is Pikachu ex the most valuable card in Surging Sparks, but it is easily one of the best in the set. With its Resolute Heart ability, Pikachu ex stops itself from being Knocked Out in one hit if it had full HP before the attack, sticking around with 10 HP.

Now that your Pikachu ex is still around, you can clap back with its Topaz Bolt attack, which deals a staggering 300 damage in exchange for discarding three Energy cards from it. While that is a steep cost, it is almost a guaranteed KO against your opponent.