One card sends players into a frenzy: The biggest culprit in Pokémon TCG Pocket is... Misty!

Misty currently dominates the most effective strategy in the new Pokémon trading card game.

For a little over a week now, you've been able to dedicate yourself to collecting the most valuable and best Pokémon cards, just like in the best days of your childhood, and you don't even have to run to the nearest kiosk to buy booster packs anymore.

InYou basically have your own Pokédex in your smartphone, with which you not only collect cards, but also put them together into powerful decks. You'll be as tactically clever as possible to hit your AI opponents and other players with these in order to emerge victorious from the fights.

In the meantime, however, one strategy has proven to be particularly specialefficienthighlighted that no one really enjoys; neither those who use it nor those against whom it is used.And a single supporter card is to blame: Misty.

Misty turns the deck of cards into a coin toss

Misty is, unsurprisingly, intended for decks that contain a lot of Water-type Pokémon. As a supporter, she strengthens your attack cards by attaching energy points to them that are needed to carry out attacks.The effect of the card is described as follows:

Choose 1 of your Water-type Pokémon and then flip a coin until it comes up tails. Attach 1 water energy from your energy area to that Pokémon per head.

Normally you add a maximum of one energy point to your attack cards per round. As soon as you play Misty, you can theoretically give your Water Pokémon a lot more energy - but this depends very much on your luck at the coin toss.

If you have fortune on your side and throw one head after the other, you will receive tons of energy.For your opponent, however, it means: wait.And since there isn't really an upper limit for the throws, this can sometimes end in overkill.

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But if you're unlucky, you'll throw tails straight away and come away empty-handed.

The success of this strategy is extremely dependent on chanceand causes discontent on both sides of the coin. Because while it's obviously frustrating for your opponent when you do immense damage in one turn, it's just as sobering for you when you don't make the necessary number of successful throws.

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Particularlythe combination of Misty with the attack card Arktos Excauses a stir among the players. With its Blizzard attack, Arktos can not only do 80 damage to an opposing Pokémon for three energy points, but can also inflict ten damage each on the opposing Bench Pokémon.

So if you're lucky enough to draw both cards at the start of the match, you can really hit it on the first turn, which isn't actually intended by the game. On the other hand, you also have to live with it if that doesn't work:

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On social media, the community is currently considering how Misty could be changed to mitigate this sluggish strategy. Accordingly, one could introduce an upper limit for coin tosses or the energy that can be earned; or completely redesign the map.

How does it look for you? Have you already tried your luck with Misty or do you prefer to have your fate in your own hands when playing cards? Feel free to tell us in the comments!