Hello everyone! This is Elena from Gaia Storm TCG and welcome to another article here at CCG. Today, I want to cover one of the decks that no matter how much time passes, it still compete in the format. Mew & Mewtwo Tag Team’s versatility conquered the world last season and, even if it is not the strongest deck in Standard, it has tools to basically win against anything. The success of Mew & Mewtwo Tag Team lies on its ability to copy GX attacks from cards that are either in the bench or in the discard pile. Being able to alternate between attacks depending on the situation is extremely efficient and makes it difficult for opponents to predict the moves. In this article we are going to look at three different builds that can be a good deck choice for the format: fire, water and psychic.

The most popular version of Mewtwo, as we have been seeing since Worlds 2019, is centered on Welder. This build has a very straight forward concept and relies on finding the Welder + Giant Hearth combo early in the game to start fueling its attackers. Apart from the obvious fire energies, the deck can run either Aurora energies to have more attacking options or Psychic Horror energies to apply some pressure on the opponents and be able to return a KO.

Another very interesting version that started gaining a lot of momentum a couple of weeks ago was Mewtwo Water. This deck requires a more complex set up than the fire build but once it has all the pieces, it is very difficult to take it down. The idea is to combine the power of Frosmoth to have access to unlimited water energies, distribute them among some Pokémon on the bench and then use Mewtwo’s ability to copy the attack of Blastoise GX. This attack, Rocket Splash, deals 60 damage for each attached water energy you shuffle back into your deck. Taking into consideration that Frosmoth can spam as many water energies as available, it is easy for Mewtwo to reach crazy numbers and even take Tag Teams down. In addition to Mewtwo, the deck can run other support attackers like Keldeo GX and Suicune from Darkness Ablaze.

Last but not least, there is a third variation that emerged not so long ago and that purely focusses on Psychic type Pokémon. Rotom from Cosmic Eclipse is the alternative to accelerate energies and power up Mewtwo on the bench. On the one hand, it is true that Rotom requires to waste your attack to charge but, on the other, it only gives one price and allows the deck to run more consistency cards. It is true that the deck has fewer attacking options than the Welder version but it stills has some fearsome   cards like Trevenant and Dusknoir Tag Team, Gengar and Mimikyu or Incineroar GX.

All in all, Mewtwo Tag Team is a really strong card and will probably see play until it rotates. If you are tired about playing Arceus Dialga Palkia or don’t want to play a strategy that rely on coin flips, Mewtwo is for sure a very rewarding option that, when played well, can beat everything. Thanks for reading!