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Torkoal
Oracle Text
Ability White Smoke: As long as Torkoal is your Active Pokémon, prevent all effects, including damage, done to your Benched Pokémon by your opponent's attacks.
Attack Black Soot (30): Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned and Paralyzed.
Card Details
Character Background
Torkoal from Dragon is a straightforward but surprisingly useful value piece, best suited to control or grindy midrange decks that want to keep the Energy flowing after trades. Its Attack Power Generation effectively turns the discard pile into a second hand, retrieving up to two basic Energy cards and smoothing out your next turns without spending resources from the deck, which is especially strong in longer games where attrition matters. That makes Torkoal a smart inclusion alongside self-discard or Energy-accelerating engines, and it pairs well with Fire lists that can afford to recycle attachments rather than race immediately. Scorching Smoke adds a modest tempo tool by pressuring the Active with Burned, and the coin-flip Energy discard can punish awkward attachments even when the damage is light. Build it with ways to recycle or discard Fire Energy on purpose, then let Torkoal stabilize your hand while slowly wearing opponents down.
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Character Background
Torkoal from Dragon is a straightforward but surprisingly useful value piece, best suited to control or grindy midrange decks that want to keep the Energy flowing after trades. Its Attack Power Generation effectively turns the discard pile into a second hand, retrieving up to two basic Energy cards and smoothing out your next turns without spending resources from the deck, which is especially strong in longer games where attrition matters. That makes Torkoal a smart inclusion alongside self-discard or Energy-accelerating engines, and it pairs well with Fire lists that can afford to recycle attachments rather than race immediately. Scorching Smoke adds a modest tempo tool by pressuring the Active with Burned, and the coin-flip Energy discard can punish awkward attachments even when the damage is light. Build it with ways to recycle or discard Fire Energy on purpose, then let Torkoal stabilize your hand while slowly wearing opponents down.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-09 09:20:44 UTC