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.
Other Poké Ball cards
1 matching cards
Poké Ball Card Details
Illustrator·Ryo UedaEffect
Put a random Basic Pokémon from your deck into your hand.
Tournament intelligence
Poké Ball in tournament decks
This card appears in 188 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Current tournament decks
- 01Inclusion100.0%Meta share11.3%
Mega Lucario ex Lucario
- 02Inclusion100.0%Meta share4.0%
Suicune ex Baxcalibur
- 03Inclusion100.0%Meta share3.6%
Dragonair Mega Rayquaza ex
- 04Inclusion100.0%Meta share2.6%
Hydreigon Mega Absol ex
- 05Inclusion100.0%Meta share2.4%
Magnezone Miraidon ex
- 06Inclusion100.0%Meta share2.3%
Magnezone ex Magnezone
- 07Inclusion100.0%Meta share2.3%
Mega Charizard Y ex Entei ex
- 08Inclusion100.0%Meta share2.2%
Mega Manectric ex Heliolisk
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
- Archived meta snapshot
Great Tusk Koraidon ex
Last seen Sep 3, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Jumpluff ex Team Rocket's Voltorb
Last seen Sep 3, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Mega Manectric ex Team Rocket's Voltorb
Last seen Sep 3, 2026100.0% card inclusion - Archived meta snapshot
Mega Lucario ex Furfrou
Last seen Aug 8, 2026100.0% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Poké Ball
These cards most often appear beside Poké Ball in current tournament decklists. Rankings use shared archetypes, samples, inclusion rate, and meta share.
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 187
- avg. inclusion
- 99.6%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 184
- avg. inclusion
- 97.5%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 172
- avg. inclusion
- 92.7%
Rare Candy
A3-144
- shared archetypes
- 66
- avg. inclusion
- 98.7%
Sabrina
A1-225
- shared archetypes
- 108
- avg. inclusion
- 50.5%
Lucky Ice Pop
B2-145
- shared archetypes
- 84
- avg. inclusion
- 63.2%
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