Poké Ball

Poké Ball

“Poké Ball” (P-A-005) is a Trainer card from the Promos-A set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Item, and its effect is: Put a random Basic Pokémon from your deck into your hand.

Use this Poké Ball page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Poké Ball to your collection.

Poké Ball Card Details

Illustrator·Ryo Ueda

Effect

Put a random Basic Pokémon from your deck into your hand.

How to get Poké Ball

Where Poké Ball 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.

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Poké Ball versions and alt art

1 matching cards

Build with Poké Ball

Seen in 90.4% of 3,453 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 2 copies.

Tournament usage
90.4%
3,122 / 3,453 lists
Most common count
2 copies
93.6% of lists using it
Average copies
1.94
Among lists using it
Archetypes
122
Current decks using it

Decks that use “Poké Ball”

  1. Mega Charizard Y ex Entei ex
    1 copy
    1.0% (2)
    2 copies
    99.0% (206)
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  2. Mega Altaria ex Espeon
    1 copy
    5.6% (11)
    2 copies
    94.4% (184)
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    Inclusion
    97.5%
    Meta share
    5.8%
  3. Suicune ex Baxcalibur
    1 copy
    0.5% (1)
    2 copies
    99.5% (190)
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  4. Hoopa ex Mega Absol ex
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (117)
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    Inclusion
    100.0%
    Meta share
    3.4%
  5. Magnezone Miraidon ex
    1 copy
    1.7% (2)
    2 copies
    98.3% (115)
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  6. Mega Lucario ex Lucario
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (114)
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  7. Mega Greninja ex Greninja ex
    1 copy
    1.9% (2)
    2 copies
    98.1% (105)
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  8. Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
    1 copy
    0.0% (0)
    2 copies
    100.0% (103)
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Event window: Oct 5, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026

Poké Ball in tournament decks

This card appears in 122 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.

Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.

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Cards commonly played with Poké Ball

These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Poké Ball. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.

  1. Professor's Research

    Professor's Research

    P-A-007

    shared archetypes
    120
    avg. inclusion
    99.0%
  2. Copycat

    Copycat

    B1-225

    shared archetypes
    121
    avg. inclusion
    92.4%
  3. Cyrus

    Cyrus

    A2-150

    shared archetypes
    102
    avg. inclusion
    76.9%
  4. Rare Candy

    Rare Candy

    A3-144

    shared archetypes
    45
    avg. inclusion
    97.5%
  5. Sabrina

    Sabrina

    A1-225

    shared archetypes
    60
    avg. inclusion
    63.5%
  6. Pokémon Center Lady

    Pokémon Center Lady

    A2b-070

    shared archetypes
    60
    avg. inclusion
    71.3%

Guides selected from explicit entity references first, with conservative title matching as a fallback.

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