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Deceptive Needle
“Deceptive Needle” (B4-148) is a Trainer card from the Ruler of the Skies set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Tool, and its effect is: At the end of your turn, if the {D} Pokémon this card is attached to is in the Active Spot, do 10 damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
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Deceptive Needle Card Details
Illustrator·Studio Bora Inc.Effect
At the end of your turn, if the {D} Pokémon this card is attached to is in the Active Spot, do 10 damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
How to get Deceptive Needle
Where Deceptive Needle 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 “Deceptive Needle”
Deceptive Needle versions and alt art
2 matching cards
Build with Deceptive Needle
Seen in 17.2% of 4,333 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.
- Tournament usage
- 17.2%
- 745 / 4,333 lists
- Most common count
- 2 copies
- 87.4% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.87
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 33
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Deceptive Needle”
- Umbreon Hydreigon
- 1 copy
- 21.5% (44)
- 2 copies
- 78.5% (161)
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- Inclusion
- 95.3%
- Meta share
- 5.0%
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- 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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- Hoopa ex Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 3.6% (6)
- 2 copies
- 96.4% (159)
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- Inclusion
- 99.4%
- Meta share
- 3.8%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Hoopa ex
- 2× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Starting Plains
- 1× Field Blower
- 1× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Eviolite
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Hoopa ex
- 2× Cyrus
- 1× Mars
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Repel
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Field Blower
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 2.1% (2)
- 2 copies
- 97.9% (93)
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- Inclusion
- 96.0%
- Meta share
- 2.3%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Absol
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Deino
- 2× Hydreigon
- 1× Bombirdier
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Hiking Trail
- 1× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- 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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- Umbreon Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (50)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 1.2%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Eevee
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Pokémon Communication
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Repel
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Umbreon Mega Sableye ex
- 1 copy
- 7.7% (3)
- 2 copies
- 92.3% (36)
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- Inclusion
- 97.5%
- Meta share
- 0.9%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Eevee
- 1× Bombirdier
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Pokémon Center Lady
- 1× Repel
- 1× May
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Deceptive Needle
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- 2× Eevee
- 1× Mega Sableye ex
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 1× Hiking Trail
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Umbreon ex Umbreon
- 1 copy
- 7.7% (2)
- 2 copies
- 92.3% (24)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.6%
Real 1-copy list
- 1× Froakie
- 1× Greninja
- 1× Eevee ex
- 1× Umbreon ex
- 2× Eevee
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Rare Candy
- 1× Repel
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Hiking Trail
- 1× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Eevee ex
- 1× Umbreon ex
- 2× Eevee
- 2× Umbreon
- 1× Sabrina
- 2× Eevee Bag
- 1× Lyra
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Training Area
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Hoopa ex Greninja
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (22)
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- Inclusion
- 84.6%
- Meta share
- 0.6%
Real 2-copy list
- 2× Greninja
- 2× Froakie
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Hoopa ex
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Rare Candy
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× X Speed
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Zoroark ex Mega Absol ex
- 1 copy
- 0.0% (0)
- 2 copies
- 100.0% (21)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.5%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Darkrai ex
- 1× Mega Absol ex
- 2× Zorua
- 2× Zoroark ex
- 1× Bombirdier
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Giant Cape
- 1× Cyrus
- 2× Copycat
- 1× Lucky Ice Pop
- 2× Deceptive Needle
- 1× Serena's Choice
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Deceptive Needle in tournament decks
This card appears in 33 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 Deceptive Needle
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Deceptive Needle. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
