Pokemon TCG Pocket IRL 2 player cube

By SWU CUBE: Pokemon TCG Pocket IRL?! The 1v1 Draft Cube.

It’s an interesting format of 81 card cube (+ a Poke Ball and Professor’s Research outside the cube for each player to increase consistency) for two players. It follows mutant evolution rules but allows evolutions across type boundaries (so you can evolve Pikachu (lightning, basic) into Ivysaur (grass, stage 1)). In the video he recommends requiring deciding your evolution lines before the games.

The cube also has a larger, 162 card version, but I haven’t built that since 81 cards + energies fit nicely into a smaller deck box.

I’m planning to play this in Solomon Draft Style. The author has said he drafts in 3x3 Grid Draft style. There are many 2 player draft formats to try out.

There are some special rules compared to regular Pokemon TCG:

1. Players get one energy each turn from the Energy Zone to attach to one of their Pokemon in play
   1. I consider every energy for this cube to be of any type but only one type at a time. The author uses a random pull from a set of two energy types. My choice stems mostly from the desire to have less cards/tokens with me and streamlining the play process but I need to test if that becomes too easy to power up Pokemon.
2. The game has random effects and I’ve figured the best way to emulate that is to play them as Random Receiver card: Reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal a Supporter card. Put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
   1. The author does the same but without revealing the cards and instead trusting the people they play with. I think in this casual format there’s little difference.

Card List

Card ID	Card name	Quantity (default 1)
A1 005	Caterpie
A1a 01	Exeggcute
A1 025	Scyther
A1 024	Tangela
A1a 03	Celebi ex
A1 030	Lilligant
A1 032	Gogoat
A1a 02	Exeggutor
A1a 06	Serperior
A1 004	Venusaur ex
A1a 10	Ponyta
A1 037	Vulpix
A1 048	Heatmor
A1 044	Magmar
A1 047	Moltres ex
A1 043	Rapidash
A1 038	Ninetales
A1 040	Arcanine
A1a 11	Rapidash
A1 036	Charizard ex
A1 057	Psyduck
A1 090	Pyukumuku
A1 091	Bruxish
A1 068	Krabby
A1 084	Articuno ex
A1 075	Starmie
A1 093	Frosmoth
A1a 19	Vaporeon
A1 089	Greninja
A1 056	Blastoise ex
A1 094	Pikachu
A1a 30	Dedenne
A1 101	Electabuzz
A1a 27	Electabuzz
A1 096	Pikachu ex
A1 104	Zapdos ex
A1 100	Electrode
A1 102	Jolteon
A1a 26	Raichu
A1 109	Eelektross
A1 151	Cubone
A1 154	Hitmonlee
A1 155	Hitmonchan
A1 150	Onix
A1a 42	Primeape
A1 138	Sandslash
A1 163	Grapploct
A1 153	Marowak ex
A1a 46	Aerodactyl ex
A1 149	Golem
A1 196	Meowth
A1 209	Porygon
A1a 62	Chatot
A1 203	Kangaskhan
A1a 60	Tauros
A1 219	Erika
A1 220	Misty
A1 221	Blaine
A1 226	Lt. Surge
A1 224	Brock
A1 223	Giovanni	2
A1a 67	Blue	2
A1a 68	Leaf	2
A1 225	Sabrina	3
P-A 001	Potion	3
P-A 002	X speed	3
P-A 003	Hand scope
P-A 004	Pokedex
P-A 006	Red card	2
A1a 65	Pokémon flute	2

These cards are not included in the draft but 1 of each is given to both players.

Card ID	Card name	Quantity
P-A 007	Professor’s Research	2
P-A 005	Poké Ball	2