Babyporter (TCG)

Babyporter
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Babyporter is a group of Pokémon Trading Card Game decks consisting of early Baby Pokémon, a Pokémon with an attack that does damage and switches the attacking Pokémon with a benched Pokémon, and a Pokémon that prevents the opponent from playing Trainer cards that would change the attacking player's active Pokémon.

Cards

Usual Attacking Pokémon:

• Dark Alakazam
• Donphan
• Forretress

Usual Baby Pokémon:

• Cleffa
• Cleffa

Usual trainer-blocking Pokémon:

• Dark Vileplume
• Slowking

Strategy

Most turns would consist of an attack, switching for a Baby Pokémon on the bench. The next turn, the player would retreat the Baby Pokémon for free and attack again, repeating the cycle as long as it took to defeat the opponent's deck. The deck made constant use of the original Baby Pokémon's rule that stated as long as that Pokémon was active the opponent would have to flip in order to successfully attack. The trainer-blocking Pokémon would then be used to keep the opponent from switching the Baby Pokémon out of the active position. As a result, the deck proved extremely frustrating to play against, particularly when Focus Band was attached to the Baby Pokémon.

Typical Decklist

The deck list appearing below is not official; it is meant to represent an average build of the archetype, not specifically constructed for any regional metagame. Being that this is merely an archetype, a player may wish to change any part of this deck when building his or her own version.

Quantity	Card Name	Type	Rarity
3x	Abra		File:Rare com.gifH
2x	Dark Kadabra		File:Rare uncom.gif
3x	Dark Alakazam		File:Rare rare.gifH
4x	Oddish		File:Rare com.gif
3x	Dark Gloom		File:Rare uncom.gif
4x	Dark Vileplume		File:Rare rare.gifH
1x	Elekid	Lightining	File:Rare rare.gif
2x	Phanpy		File:Rare com.gif
2x	Donphan		File:Rare rare.gif
4x	Cleffa		File:Rare rare.gif
4x	Professor Elm	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
2x	Pokémon Breeder	T	File:Rare rare.gif
2x	The Boss's Way	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
2x	Pokémon Trader	T	File:Rare rare.gif
2x	Bill	T	File:Rare com.gif
3x	Team Rocket's Hideout	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
1x	Chaos Gym	T	File:Rare rare.gif
4x	Darkness Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
6x	Psychic Energy	E	--
6x	Grass Energy	E	--

Restriction

At the end of 2002, Slowking was removed from the Modified Format (Dark Vileplume had already been removed earlier in the year), making it much easier to switch a player's active Pokémon. In addition, all of the cards were later removed from Pokémon Organized Play because they were too old.