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Team Rocket's Meowth card from the Ascended Heroes set
Illustration by Megumi Mizutani. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Basic Pokémon

Team Rocket's Meowth

A mischievous thief that disrupts your child's opponent by hiding their cards.

Colorless70 HPBasicBeginner to play

What this card does

Use Paw-cket Pilfer to force the opponent to reveal a random card from their hand and shuffle it away.

Use Fury Swipes to deal damage based on three coin flips, potentially dealing up to 60 damage.

Signature attack

Fury Swipes

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 20 damage for each heads. (20× damage)

This card's key ability is disruption. It forces the opponent to lose knowledge of their hand and removes useful cards from play temporarily. This can confuse players who rely on specific strategies or powerful trainers.

Attacks

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Paw-cket Pilfer

Choose a random card from your opponent's hand. Your opponent reveals that card and shuffles it into their deck.

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Fury Swipes20×

Flip 3 coins. This attack does 20 damage for each heads.

Which deck it belongs in

It suits decks that want to slow down the opponent's setup. It works well in control-style decks that prefer to react rather than attack directly.

Strengths
  • Disruption
  • Unpredictable damage
  • Low energy cost
Watch out for
  • Randomness
  • Fighting weakness
  • Basic Pokemon limit
Pro tip

Use Paw-cket Pilfer early to hide the opponent's most powerful cards before they can use them.

From the Pokédex

Meowth is known for its greed and ability to purr in a way that charms anyone who hears it.

Note for the parent

Explain to your child that this card is about strategy and luck, not just dealing damage.

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