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Heavy Ball
Oracle Text
Search your deck for a Pokémon with a Retreat Cost of 3 or more, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Card Details
Character Background
Heavy Ball is a clean, efficient setup card that best supports control and value-oriented decks, especially lists built around bulky Basic Pokémon or evolution lines with awkwardly high Retreat Costs. Its purpose is simple but important: turn a drawback into consistency by tutoring a key wall, support attacker, or evolution piece directly into hand. In practice, it shines when your deck wants time rather than speed, letting you stabilize early and keep your options open without spending a full turn digging. It also pairs well with Pokémon that have powerful Abilities or attacks but naturally clunky mobility, since those are often worth the tempo loss. A strong deckbuilding tip is to include multiple targets with Retreat Cost 3 or more, so Heavy Ball is rarely dead; it becomes even better alongside draw supporters that help you find it early. Rather than pushing aggression, it quietly reinforces reliable, grindy game plans.
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Character Background
Heavy Ball is a clean, efficient setup card that best supports control and value-oriented decks, especially lists built around bulky Basic Pokémon or evolution lines with awkwardly high Retreat Costs. Its purpose is simple but important: turn a drawback into consistency by tutoring a key wall, support attacker, or evolution piece directly into hand. In practice, it shines when your deck wants time rather than speed, letting you stabilize early and keep your options open without spending a full turn digging. It also pairs well with Pokémon that have powerful Abilities or attacks but naturally clunky mobility, since those are often worth the tempo loss. A strong deckbuilding tip is to include multiple targets with Retreat Cost 3 or more, so Heavy Ball is rarely dead; it becomes even better alongside draw supporters that help you find it early. Rather than pushing aggression, it quietly reinforces reliable, grindy game plans.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-12 13:10:44 UTC