{"id":149229,"date":"2025-09-19T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/the-coolest-pokemon-sword-shield-battle-styles-cards-we-pulled-from-booster-packs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:37:29","slug":"the-coolest-pokemon-sword-shield-battle-styles-cards-we-pulled-from-booster-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-coolest-pokemon-sword-shield-battle-styles-cards-we-pulled-from-booster-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest Pok\u00e9mon Sword & Shield \u2013 Battle Styles Cards We Pulled From Booster Packs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The newest Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game expansion pulls direct influence from the 2020 Pok\u00e9mon Sword & Shield expansion, The Isle of Armor<\/a>. Focusing in on the fact that Kubfu, the Legendary Pok\u00e9mon introduced in that expansion, can evolve into one of two different forms of Urshifu depending on how it’s trained, the new Battle Styles expansion introduces Single Strike and Rapid Strike variants on both Urshifu, as well as other established Pok\u00e9mon from the series.<\/p>\n

This new expansion adds more than 160 new cards to the always-growing Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game, including 12 Pok\u00e9mon V and six Pok\u00e9mon VMAX. As mentioned before, you can expect Single Strike variants for Pok\u00e9mon like Emboar and Primeape and Rapid Strike versions of Pok\u00e9mon like Mienfoo and Octillery. These versions grant added abilities that play into the Isle of Armor expansion, where Single Strike is about delivering one powerful attack, while Rapid Strike is about speed and hitting enemy weaknesses. We were sent a bunch of booster packs by The Pok\u00e9mon Company to see which new cards we could pull.<\/p>\n

You can see a gallery of the coolest and best cards we pulled from the new Pok\u00e9mon Sword & Shield \u2013 Battle Styles expansion below.<\/p>\n

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Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game’s Sword & Shield \u2013 Battle Styles expansion releases on March 19.\u00a0For more on the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game, check out our big galleries for many of the most recent expansions.<\/p>\n