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Cards/Team Rocket's Diglett
Team Rocket's Diglett card from the Ascended Heroes set
Illustration by Yuriko Akase. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Team Rocket's Diglett

A basic Fighting Pokemon that can remove cards from your opponent's hand through persistent digging.

Fighting60 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

You flip a coin repeatedly until you get tails.

For every heads result, you discard the top card of your opponent's deck.

Signature attack

Relentless Burrowing

Flip a coin until you get tails. For each heads, discard the top card of your opponent's deck.

The Relentless Burrowing attack allows you to strip away cards from your opponent's deck one by one. This works best in decks that can survive longer turns to accumulate multiple heads.

Attacks

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Relentless Burrowing

Flip a coin until you get tails. For each heads, discard the top card of your opponent's deck.

Which deck it belongs in

This card suits aggressive decks that want to disrupt the opponent's resources early on. It fits well in Fighting type strategies that value board control over raw damage.

Strengths
  • Card disruption
  • Basic Pokemon ease of play
  • Fighting type teamwork
Watch out for
  • Grass weakness
  • Unpredictable coin flips
  • Low HP total
Pro tip

Use this attack when the opponent has a valuable card on top of their deck to maximise the discard effect.

From the Pokédex

Diglett lives underground and only its head pokes out, making it easy to spot but hard to catch.

Note for the parent

Explain to your child that they must keep flipping until tails appears, which can take several turns and requires patience.

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