Real tournament list
Dustox Mega Absol ex
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Poison Barb
Trainer
“Poison Barb” (A3-146) is a Trainer card from the Celestial Guardians set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Tool, and its effect is: If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an attack from your opponent's Pokémon, the Attacking Pokémon is now Poisoned.
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Poison Barb Card Details
Illustrator·Toyste BeachEffect
If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an attack from your opponent's Pokémon, the Attacking Pokémon is now Poisoned.
How to get Poison Barb
Deck snapshot
Where Poison Barb 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.
- Tournament usage
- 0.5%
- 16 / 3,283 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 68.8% of lists using it
Decks that use “Poison Barb”
Small sample; interpret with care.
Event window: Sep 15, 2026 – Oct 12, 2026
Daily tournament data
Build with Poison Barb
Seen in 0.5% of 3,283 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.5%
- 16 / 3,283 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 68.8% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.69
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 4
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Poison Barb”
- Dustox Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (6)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.2%
- Team Rocket's Weezing ex Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (3)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 75.0%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Nihilego
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Absol
- 2× Team Rocket's Koffing
- 2× Team Rocket's Weezing ex
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Poison Barb
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Small Balloon
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Team Rocket's Weezing ex Team Rocket's Magmar
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 33.3%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Oricorio
- 2× Team Rocket's Magmar
- 2× Team Rocket's Koffing
- 2× Team Rocket's Weezing ex
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Poison Barb
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Team Rocket's Master Plan
- 2× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (1)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 1.1%
- Meta share
- 2.8%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Nihilego
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Deino
- 2× Hydreigon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 1× Poison Barb
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Hiking Trail
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Poison Barb in tournament decks
This card appears in 4 current and 3 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.
- Archived meta snapshot
Team Rocket's Weezing ex Teal Mask Ogerpon ex
Last seen Sep 27, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Team Rocket's Weezing ex Paldean Clodsire ex
Last seen Sep 8, 202666.7% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Dragalge ex Nihilego
Last seen Aug 1, 202650.0% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Poison Barb
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Poison Barb. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 4
- avg. inclusion
- 98.1%
Mega Absol ex
B1-151
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Team Rocket's Magmar
B4a-006
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 76.9%
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