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Standard Deck Tech: Rotom V - Massive Damage, Discard & Tools!

In this articlem meet Rotom V, a Pokémon that can hit up to 720 damage at its fullest, discarding tools from the discard pile to the Lost Zone!

Hello everybody. I'm Rodrigo, and I'm here to bring you more ideas and deck possibilities for the Standard format in the Pokémon TCG.

In this article, with the hype of the expansion Lost Originlink outside website, we are going to elaborate on another card from it, Rotom-V, which allows discarding Item Tools cards to deal damage!

Table of Contents

1. Rotom V: Discard Tools

1.1. Deck Analysis

1.2. Recursive Pokémon

1.3. Trainer Cards

2. Format Archetypes

2.1. Advantages

2.2. Disadvantages

3. Conclusions