

This section provides an image, description and strategy guide for every card in the Team Rocket expansion, including the box topper, Dark Raichu. Strategies for using each deck in gameplay are also included. There are two decks listed for each TCG type: one "easy-to-build" deck and one advanced deck. This section focuses on "Cool Decks You Can Build", custom deck configurations focusing on the new Team Rocket cards. The section closes with the writers' "Top Ten Team Rocket Cards", which the author considered the best of the set. The section also provides "Cool Combos", creating new strategies by combining moves or Pokémon Powers of new Team Rocket cards with older cards from Base Set, Jungle and Fossil for example, a combo of Rattata's Pokémon Power "Trickery" with Mankey's Pokémon Power "Peek". The book compares some new Pokémon cards to their first appearances in the TCG, for example, the advantages of using the original Base Set Machop vs the advantages of the new Team Rocket Machop.

This section introduces the premise of the Team Rocket expansion set and an overview of some of the new cards included.


This serves as a brief overview of the rules of the Pokémon Trading Card Game and an explanation of how to identify Energy symbols, Weakness, Resistance, etc. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining PearlĪfter a brief foreword by Professor Oak, there is an introductory section called "Welcome to the World of Pokémon".
