Kadabra
The middle step that pays you cards to evolve.
What this card does
Sits between Abra and Alakazam as the Stage 1 step.
It draws you extra cards the moment you play it to evolve, and it can attack for steady damage.
Psychic Draw
Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may use this Ability. Draw 2 cards.
When you play Kadabra from your hand to evolve a Pokémon, Psychic Draw lets you draw 2 cards. The free draw helps the big-hand plan even before Alakazam arrives.
Attacks
Abilities
Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may use this Ability. Draw 2 cards.
Which deck it belongs in
Kadabra keeps the Alakazam deck's hand full, which is exactly what the deck wants for its later attacks.
- •Free card draw every time you evolve into it
- •Has a usable attack while you wait
- •At 80 HP it can still be knocked out before it reaches Alakazam.
Pairs well with
It evolves into Alakazam, whose Powerful Hand attack loves a big hand.
Evolve into Kadabra when your hand is low, so the two cards from Psychic Draw refill it.
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.
Kadabra is known for the silver spoon it carries, which it uses to focus its psychic power.
Kadabra is the middle stage, but it is useful on its own because evolving into it draws two cards.
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