Abra
The little psychic that blinks out of danger.
What this card does
Starts the Abra, Kadabra, Alakazam line as the Basic Pokémon.
Its attack lets it swap places with a Benched Pokémon for a quick escape.
Teleportation Attack
Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. (10 damage)
Teleportation Attack does 10 damage and switches Abra with one of your Benched Pokémon. This lets you dodge an incoming hit and bring up a fresh attacker.
Attacks
Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Which deck it belongs in
Abra is the starting point in the Alakazam deck and helps you stall while you build towards the bigger attacker.
- •Can escape danger by switching to the Bench
- •Cheap and easy to set up early
- •Only 50 HP, so it is fragile and falls quickly to most attacks.
Pairs well with
It evolves through Kadabra into Alakazam, the single-Prize attacker.
Use Teleportation Attack to slip a tired Abra to the Bench and bring up a healthy Pokémon.
Top players who use this deck
The cheapest competitive deck in the format, and now a world championship deck. Jake Ng of Australia won the Senior Division at the 2026 World Championships with it, beating Cobey Huh of the United States in the final. Before that it had reached the Top 8 of the Campinas Regional with several Top 16 and Top 32 finishes on the 2026 circuit.
Abra sleeps for most of the day and can teleport away even while it is asleep.
Abra is the first of three steps. Its job is to survive long enough to grow into Kadabra and then Alakazam.
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