Rare Candy
“Rare Candy” (A3-144) is a Trainer card from the Celestial Guardians set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Item, and its effect is: Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 2 card in your hand that evolves from that Pokémon, put that card onto the Basic Pokémon to evolve it, skipping the Stage 1. You can't use this card during your first turn or on a Basic Pokémon that was put into play this turn.
Use this Rare Candy page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Rare Candy to your collection.
Other Rare Candy cards
3 matching cards
Rare Candy Card Details
Illustrator·Toyste Beach
Effect
Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 2 card in your hand that evolves from that Pokémon, put that card onto the Basic Pokémon to evolve it, skipping the Stage 1. You can't use this card during your first turn or on a Basic Pokémon that was put into play this turn.
Tournament intelligence
Rare Candy in tournament decks
This card appears in 94 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Current tournament decks
- 01Inclusion100.0%Meta share3.4%
Mega Sceptile ex Greninja
- 02Inclusion100.0%Meta share3.2%
Suicune ex Baxcalibur
- 03Inclusion100.0%Meta share2.7%
Hoopa ex Greninja
- 04Inclusion100.0%Meta share1.9%
Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 05Inclusion100.0%Meta share1.5%
Mega Blaziken ex Greninja
- 06Inclusion100.0%Meta share1.2%
Meowscarada ex Meowscarada
- 07Inclusion100.0%Meta share0.8%
Mega Lucario ex Greninja
- 08Inclusion100.0%Meta share0.6%
Hydreigon Mega Sableye ex
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
- Archived meta snapshot
Flygon ex Indeedee ex
Last seen Jul 25, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos Tyrantrum
Last seen Aug 9, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Sylveon ex Hydreigon
Last seen Aug 8, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Rampardos
Last seen Aug 17, 2026100.0% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Rare Candy
These cards most often appear beside Rare Candy in current tournament decklists. Rankings use shared archetypes, samples, inclusion rate, and meta share.
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 94
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 93
- avg. inclusion
- 98.3%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 87
- avg. inclusion
- 91.4%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 78
- avg. inclusion
- 99.3%
Greninja
A1-089
- shared archetypes
- 30
- avg. inclusion
- 92.4%
Froakie
A1-087
- shared archetypes
- 26
- avg. inclusion
- 88.7%
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