Best Mythical Island ex Cards In Pokemon TCG Pocket

Summary

Pidgeot ex in Mythical Island is a powerful card with 170 HP and a strong attack, making it a top choice.
Celebi ex has a unique attack to dish out damage and can potentially take out strong enemy ex Pokemon.
Aerodactyl ex’s Primeval Law ability can disrupt opponents’ game plans, making it a strategic powerhouse with just 140 HP.

More sets in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket means more cards to play with, even in a mini set like with the Mythical Island expansion. With 86 cards in total in the set, five of them stand apart from the rest as being particularly good: the ex Pokemon.

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These Pokemon cards are stronger than most, with more powers and abilities than your average card. Since there are only a few cards with the ex status in Mythical Island, we took a look at all of them to let you know the best of the best.

The ex in a Pokemon ex’s name stands for extra, since they tend to be a bit more powerful and have more abilities than other Pokemon.

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Pidgeot ex

Soar To Victory

As one of the better and oldest bird Pokemon in the games, Pidgeot ex has a lot to live up to. Even though it has its own rare version from the Genetic Apex set, it received a boost in power in Mythical Island.

This colorless ex card comes with a pretty respectable 170 HP, helping it dodge most attacks in the game outside of Charizard ex, which is good given the amount of the meta it has taken over. Even better, it comes with a pretty respectable attack in Scattering Cyclone. It’ll deal a base damage of 80, and then 20 more for each Pokemon on your opponent’s bench. With a full bench, that’s 140 damage in all.

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Celebi ex

A Mythical Beatdown

The second Mythical Pokemon to make it to the digital game, Celebi ex comes with a fairly strong ability that scales with the more Energy you pump into it. The Grass-type ex Pokemon is a bit on the weaker side in terms of exs, with only 130 HP, making it a little vulnerable to other ex attacks.

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With just one attack, Celebi ex needs a good one to be of good use, and thankfully, it has a solid one with Powerful Bloom. This attack costs two Energy, one Grass and one Colorless, and has the potential to dish out a ton of damage.

For each energy attached to Celebi ex, you get to flip a coin and then dish out 50 damage for each head you get. If you’re lucky enough, and you have enough extra Energies attached to Celebi ex, you can take out plenty of powerful enemy exs.

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Gyrados ex

Wash Them Away

An absolute powerhouse in terms of sheer strength, Gyrados ex can take your opponents by surprise if they’re not prepared to deal with this massive ex Pokemon. Coming in with 180 HP, Gyrados ex can withstand most attacks and keep on hitting.

The Rampaging Whirlpool attack costs a bunch of Energy, three Water and one Colorless, but deals a very solid 140 points of damage. Toss a Giovanni in there and you’ll be able to take out a good number of other ex Pokemon by dealing 150 damage.

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The neat thing with this attack is that you get to discard a single random energy from all Pokemon in play, both yours and your opponents. So while you can set yourself back an energy, you can also wildly disrupt your opponents as well. The effect is totally random so you never know what you’re going to get, but it can be in your favor if you don’t have many Energies or Pokemon in play.

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Aerodactyl ex

A Built-In Hard Lock

Aerodactyl ex brings an incredibly powerful ability. With the Primeval Law ability, you shut down your opponent’s ability to evolve their active Pokemon. This absolutely wild effect can utterly destroy a game plan, especially if they have just one Pokemon out.

While it only affects the Pokemon in the active slot, that means your opponents will have to either have to expend more resources to retreat the active Pokemon or find a way to deal with your Aerodactyl ex.

It’s on the slightly weaker side with only 140 HP, but that’s to help balance out the powerful ability. It also has only one attack with Land Crush, dealing 80 damage per hit, but it costs just two Energy to use, making it pretty efficient.

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Mew ex

Use Your Opponent’s Pokemon Against Them

One of the neat thing about Mew ex is that it scales with power based on what your opponent is doing. The first attack Mew ex has available to it Psyshot, deals just 20 points of damage for one Psychic Energy, which isn’t great, but is something.

The real power comes when you’re able to attach three Energies to Mew ex and use the Genome Hacking attack. Much like the Ditto card from Genetic Apex, you can copy an attack from your opponent’s Active Pokemon. The big upside is that you don’t have to match the Energy of the attack to use it, you can just use that attack.

The Genome Hacking attack is incredibly powerful when your opponent swaps in an opposing ex or stage 2 Pokemon with a strong attack, but they don’t have enough Energies to use—giving you the time and ability to swoop in and steal their attack. There are silly ways to abuse this too, like using an enemy Charizard ex’s Crimson Storm attack to dish out 200 damage, and not discard anything because Mew ex probably won’t have any Fire Energy attached to it.