Pokemon TCG Pocket's Shining Revelry expansion is just around the corner, and one of its cards is guaranteed to be a universally hated plague on the meta.

While a core mechanic in every version of the TCG, coin flip cards added in previous Pocket expansions have consistently been criticized for being impossible to play around

A new expansion for Pokemon TCG Pocket is just around the corner, and one of its cards are guaranteed to be a universally hated plague on the meta.

While a core mechanic in every version of the TCG, coin flip cards added in previous Pocket expansions have consistently been criticized for being impossible to play around, especially when luck favors the card’s user.

Genetic Apex’s wildly popular Misty and Articuno combo is just one example of infamously powerful decks relying on coin flips, but even Cerulean City’s Gym leader has nothing on Shining Revelry’s new Trainer.

Team Rocket Grunt is TCG Pocket’s strongest coin flip card

When played, Team Rocket Grunt triggers the following effect:

When you play this card, flip a coin. For each heads, discard the top card of your opponent’s deck. If you flip tails, you lose the game.

Sounds like a nightmare to play against, right? If the user gets a streak of heads flips, it will be. Even if the result averages out to only two heads results before landing tails, it’s still a severe setback for the opposing player’s game plan.

While combo decks like Mewtwo ex and Gardevoir can recover from a swingy Team Rocket Grunt by generating more Energy through Abilities, any deck that relies on natural Energy generation faces the likely outcome of having their Active Pokemon completely bricked without any chance of recovering.

Whether Team Rocket Grunt will become an auto-include staple in every deck remains to be seen, but it’s an extremely powerful disruption tool that doesn’t need to be built around, and that’s concerning, to say the least.

It’s not just Pokemon TCG Pocket where Team Rocket’s up to no good. Destined Rivals, the physical TCG’s next major expansion due for release on May 30, is all about boss man Giovanni’s villainous group, and it’s already being scalped to the moon and back.

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The expansion features a new Triple Battle variant of the classic game mode, and it’s heavily skewed in favor of the Rocket Grunt side. In fact, the announcers even comment on how quickly the trainers are losing.

Despite this, the announcers never seem concerned for the trainers, instead laughing along with the Grunt as he effortlessly wins the Triple Battle. It’s almost as though the trainers are there to be an audience for the Grunt’s coin flips.

Hopefully, the trainers manage to pull through and turn the tide of the Triple Battle before the Grunt manages to discard all three players’ entire decks.