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Pidgeot
Uncommon
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Flip 2 coins. For each heads, discard a random Energy from your opponent's Active Pokémon. If both of them are tails, this attack does nothing.
Once during your turn, you may switch out your opponent's Active Pokémon to the Bench. (Your opponent chooses the new Active Pokémon.)
Pidgeot runs two distinct Stage 2 variants — a 150-HP Twister attacker that strips opponent energy on coin flips, and a 130-HP Drive Off support that forces opponent switches. The deck wins by combining energy denial with positional disruption to leave opponents unable to attack efficiently.
Start with Pidgey from Poke Ball or Pokemon Communication, then use Rare Candy to reach Pidgeot before the opponent stabilizes. The Drive Off Pidgeot ability forces the opponent to switch their Active each turn, disrupting momentum and denying setups. Twister at 80 damage with energy discard on heads compounds the disruption. Spearow and Stufful provide alternative attack lines, while Sabrina, Cyrus, and Team Rocket Grunt add hand and board disruption. Irida and Lillie refill the hand to keep trainer chains going.
The Drive Off Pidgeot ability lets you force the opponent's Active switch once per turn. Use this to drag up a freshly benched, unenergized Pokemon to buy time, or to push a damaged Pokemon back to the bench to prevent healing. Pair with Sabrina to double up the switching pressure.
Twister deals 80 damage and flips two coins — each heads discards an energy from the opponent's Active. Against energy-dependent attackers like Charizard, hitting even one heads delays their attack by a full turn. Red Card combined with Twister creates both hand and energy disruption in the same turn.
Pidgeot needs a three-stage evolution with only 1 copy of Pidgey in the build. Aggressive early knockouts on Pidgey or Pidgeotto, before Rare Candy can shortcut the line, leave the player without their primary win condition and no redundancy to fall back on.
Drive Off forces a switch, but the opponent chooses which benched Pokemon becomes Active. A bench full of capable attackers with energy already attached means Drive Off merely advances your own attack sequence. Maintaining 2-3 ready attackers strips Drive Off of its disruption value.
If Twister hits double tails it does nothing at all. Decks built to recover energy quickly can shrug off the coin-flip misses, and any turn Twister fails is a tempo loss. Applying constant pressure forces the Pidgeot player to attack with a high chance of wasting their turn.
Secondary attacker
