TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX and more in the Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon—Cosmic Eclipse Expansion. These amazing cards from the upcoming Sun & Moon—Cosmic Eclipse expansion are so intense, you shouldn’t stare directly into them.

A new Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion has arrived, and with it comes a bevy of wonderful new cards. Sun & Moon—Cosmic Eclipse is chock full of incredible Pokémon, powerful Pokémon-GX and TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX, and two new TAG TEAM trios. The expansion also marks the debut of TAG TEAM Supporter cards—after all, why should Pokémon Trainers be left out of the TAG TEAM action? Check out some of the awesome cards you’ll find in the Sun & Moon—Cosmic Eclipse expansion!

Venusaur & Snivy-GX

Want to take control of your opponent’s Pokémon? If Venusaur & Snivy-GX is your Active Pokémon, its Shining Vine Ability allows you to pull one of your opponent’s Pokémon off the Bench and into battle when you attach a Grass Energy to the mean, green TAG TEAM. This sets them up for your next move, which could be the pair’s Forest Dump attack for 160 damage. If you want to spread around some damage, the Solar Plant-GX attack does 50 damage to all your opponent’s Pokémon. With an extra 2 Energy attached, the team bonus effect will even heal all damage from your entire team!

Charizard & Braixen-GX

The fiery TAG TEAM of Charizard & Braixen-GX can help you cause a lot of damage while getting the cards you need into your hand. At a cost of four Energy, the pair’s Brilliant Flare attack does an impressive 180 damage while also letting you search your deck for up to 3 cards to add to your hand. You’ll soon have everything you need ready to go! You can then quickly energize any Pokémon you bring into your hand with the Crimson Flame Pillar-GX attack, which lets you attach 5 basic Energy cards from your discard pile to your Pokémon. It also has the bonus effect of making your opponent’s Active Pokémon Burned and Confused for the cost of just 1 extra Energy.

Blastoise & Piplup-GX

Splish, splash, your opponent will be taken aback when you bust out this TAG TEAM! Blastoise & Piplup-GX’s Splash Maker attack will certainly live up to its name by hitting your opponent’s Active Pokémon for 150 damage and letting you attach 3 Water Energy cards from your hand to your own Pokémon. Not only that, but each card you attach also heals 50 damage from the Pokémon you attach it to! You can then rain damage down on your opponent with the Bubble Launcher-GX attack, which does 100 damage and makes your opponent’s Active Pokémon Paralyzed. Tack on 3 extra Water Energy, and the GX attack does a massive additional 150 damage.

Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX

One of two TAG TEAM trios in the Sun & Moon—Cosmic Eclipse expansion, Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX has a couple of very interesting attacks. Its regular attack, Rolling Panic, does a base 120 damage, but then you get to flip a coin until you get tails. The attack then does 30 more damage for each heads. If you get a lucky streak going, this attack can be incredibly damaging! On the other hand, the trio’s Supreme Puff-GX attack doesn’t do any damage, but it can put your opponent in a bad situation. For just two Fairy Energy, the GX attack allows you to take an extra turn. But if you have 14(!) extra Fairy Energy attached, your opponent must shuffle all their Benched Pokémon and all cards attached to them back into the deck. Good luck recovering from that tinypocalypse!

Red & Blue

It wouldn’t be a TAG TEAM card without a team bonus, right? Each new TAG TEAM Supporter card comes with a bonus effect that you can activate by discarding other cards from your hand when you play it! Red & Blue shows off two famous Trainers joining forces on a card that lets you search your deck for a Pokémon-GX that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon in play and immediately evolve it. If you discard 2 other cards from your hand when you play Red & Blue, you can search up 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to that newly evolved Pokémon-GX right away. They may be rivals, but Red and Blue can work together to make sure your powerful Pokémon are ready for battle.

Mimikyu

Supporter cards can be extremely useful, but wouldn’t it be great if you could play more than one of them per turn? Well, Mimikyu’s Impersonation attack pretty much lets you do just that! For the cost of one Energy (of any type), you can discard a Supporter card from your hand and use the effect of that card as the attack. What this means is that you can play a Supporter card during your turn and then effectively play a second as your attack at the end of your turn. This could be especially useful early in a match, and really, how could you not want a card as adorable as this in your deck?

Source: Pokemon.com