Babyporter (TCG)
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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:
Usual Baby Pokémon:
Usual trainer-blocking Pokémon:
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 |
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| 3x | Abra |  |
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| 2x | Dark Kadabra | |
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| 3x | Dark Alakazam | |
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| 4x | Oddish |  |
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| 3x | Dark Gloom | |
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| 4x | Dark Vileplume | |
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| 1x | Elekid |  |
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| 2x | Phanpy |  |
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| 2x | Donphan | |
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| 4x | Cleffa |  |
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| 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 | 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.
