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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.
Rare Candy Card Details
Illustrator·Toyste BeachEffect
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.
How to get Rare Candy
Where Rare Candy is played
Observed use in sampled public tournaments. These figures are not ladder usage, a card win rate, or a recommendation to play a particular number of copies. Versions with the same effect are combined. Examples retain their source artwork.
Decks that use “Rare Candy”
Rare Candy versions and alt art
3 matching cards
Build with Rare Candy
Seen in 40.1% of 4,333 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
- Tournament usage
- 40.1%
- 1,736 / 4,333 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 74.0% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.74
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 78
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Rare Candy”
- Suicune ex Baxcalibur
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (277)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 6.4%
- Umbreon Hydreigon
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (215)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 5.0%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Deino
- 2× Hydreigon
- 2× Eevee
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Greninja ex Greninja ex
- 1 copy
- 97.7% (172)
- 2 copies
- 2.3% (4)
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- Inclusion
- 99.4%
- Meta share
- 4.1%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Greninja
- 2× Suicune ex
- 1× Greninja ex
- 2× Froakie
- 2× Frogadier
- 1× Mega Greninja ex
- 1× Pokémon Communication
- 1× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Mars
- 1× Rare Candy
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Real 2-copy list
- 2× Greninja
- 1× Greninja ex
- 2× Froakie
- 2× Frogadier
- 1× Mega Greninja ex
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Fishing Net
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× May
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 1× Poké Ball
- 1× Red Card
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Greninja ex Mega Greninja ex
- 1 copy
- 98.1% (105)
- 2 copies
- 1.9% (2)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 2.5%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Greninja
- 2× Suicune ex
- 2× Froakie
- 1× Greninja ex
- 2× Frogadier
- 1× Mega Greninja ex
- 1× Pokémon Communication
- 1× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Irida
- 1× Rare Candy
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Real 2-copy list
- 2× Suicune ex
- 2× Froakie
- 2× Greninja ex
- 2× Frogadier
- 1× Mega Greninja ex
- 1× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Lillie
- 2× May
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Altaria ex Greninja
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (101)
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- Inclusion
- 99.0%
- Meta share
- 2.4%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Froakie
- 2× Greninja
- 1× Mega Altaria ex
- 2× Chingling
- 2× Swablu
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Egg
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (99)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 2.3%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Deino
- 2× Hydreigon
- 1× Bombirdier
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Hiking Trail
- 1× Field Blower
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 2× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
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- Mega Greninja ex Suicune ex
- 1 copy
- 91.5% (86)
- 2 copies
- 8.5% (8)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 2.2%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Greninja
- 2× Suicune ex
- 2× Froakie
- 2× Frogadier
- 1× Mega Greninja ex
- 1× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Rare Candy
- 1× May
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Real 2-copy list
- 2× Greninja
- 2× Suicune ex
- 2× Froakie
- 2× Frogadier
- 1× Mega Greninja ex
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Inflatable Boat
- 1× May
- 1× Soothing Shore
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Sceptile ex Greninja
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (78)
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- Inclusion
- 98.7%
- Meta share
- 1.8%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Froakie
- 1× Greninja
- 1× Pheromosa
- 2× Treecko
- 1× Grovyle
- 2× Mega Sceptile ex
- 1× Furfrou
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Small Balloon
- 2× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Rare Candy in tournament decks
This card appears in 78 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
Cards commonly played with Rare Candy
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Rare Candy. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
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