{"id":500021,"date":"2025-08-08T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=500021"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:36:02","slug":"pokemon-tcg-the-ethans-typhlosion-deck-could-be-an-emerging-under-the-radar-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2025\/08\/08\/pokemon-tcg-the-ethans-typhlosion-deck-could-be-an-emerging-under-the-radar-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pok\u00e9mon TCG] The Ethan’s Typhlosion Deck Could Be an Emerging Under-the-Radar Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To date, the Ethan’s Typhlosion deck doesn’t have much of a tournament track record to its name. Apart from an eighth-place finish in the hands of Song Seunghun at the Korean League Final Season in June 2025, this deck hasn’t done much as of yet in tournament play. However, several players are, in fact, considering bringing it to the upcoming 2025 Pok\u00e9mon TCG World Championships as they believe that this deck could end up one of the more notable off-meta picks at the global showpiece in Anaheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With this deck, the setup process begins with the pre-evolution of its titular card: the Ethan’s Quilava card from Heat Wave Arena [SV9a]. Ethan’s Quilava<\/a> has the Ability of Bonded by the Journey which allows the player to search the deck for a copy of the Ethan’s Adventure card from Heat Wave Arena [SV9a] and put it in hand. Ethan’s Adventure can subsequently be used to retrieve three cards from the deck; these three cards are to be Ethan’s Pok\u00e9mon cards or Fire Energy cards in any combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using all those Ethan’s Adventure cards powers up Buddy Blast, the main attack of Ethan’s Typhlosion. Buddy Blast has 40 base damage for one Fire Energy card\u2014but with every Ethan’s Adventure card in the player’s discard pile, the attack’s damage output increases by 60. As such, there’s a possibility that Ethan’s Typhlosion could be dishing out 280 damage per hit for just one Energy card under ideal conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This deck only contains single-Prize Pok\u00e9mon; there are no Pok\u00e9mon-ex in it. As such, the player can sometimes afford to take more risks than those using other decks might as there’s usually no chance of surrendering more than one Prize card in a single turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Buying every card in the Ethan’s Typhlosion deck will cost at least 7,360 JPY (~US$50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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