Team Rocket is taking over Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket. The Team Rocket’s Ambition expansion is live right now — and it brings Giovanni’s legendary bird trio, nefarious Trainer cards, and over a month’s worth of events packed with free rewards for Singapore players who are still grinding the Pocket app.
Prepare for Trouble: What’s in Team Rocket’s Ambition
This is the B4a expansion — a themed booster pack rather than a full-series update — which means you pull from a single, tightly curated pool of cards all centred on Team Rocket. The three headline ex Pokémon are the Legendary Birds reimagined with the iconic R-mark branding: Team Rocket’s Articuno ex, Team Rocket’s Zapdos ex, and Team Rocket’s Moltres ex. Alongside them you’ll find Team Rocket’s Mewtwo, Lapras, Houndour, Arbok, Persian, Marowak, and Tinkaton — plus Trainer cards that lean hard into Team Rocket’s scheming identity.
The Three Legendary Bird ex Cards, Broken Down
These are the pulls you’ll be chasing, and each one has a distinct role in the app’s battle meta:
- Team Rocket’s Articuno ex (Water, 130 HP) — Ice Wing hits for 40; Hailstorm hits for 130 and splashes 20 damage to every benched Pokémon your opponent controls. At a glance this is a bench-punishing water pivot that rewards wide setups.
- Team Rocket’s Zapdos ex (Lightning, 120 HP) — Electro Ball for 40, then Thunderclaw for 90 and an extra 30 to a benched Pokémon that already has damage on it. Stack chips from Hailstorm first, then clean up with Thunderclaw — the two cards play well together.
- Team Rocket’s Moltres ex (Fire, 130 HP) — Heat Charged is a coin-flip Energy accelerator; Netherwing hits for 130 at the cost of discarding an Energy. Fire decks that have struggled with Energy recovery may find Moltres the glue they needed.
Other Team Rocket Cards and Trainers to Know
Beyond the ex cards, Team Rocket’s Lapras is an early standout — its Ruthless Whirlpool attack does 40+ damage, bumping by another 40 if this Pokémon has more Energy attached than the opponent’s Active. In slower control builds, that conditional damage spike is very real. Team Rocket’s Mewtwo is the Psychic wild card to watch, and Team Rocket’s Tinkaton offers an unusual Steel-type entry point for the faction.
On the Trainer card side, Team Rocket’s Boss should see play as a disruption pivot — the card lets you target a specific benched Pokémon, pulling it to the Active position whether your opponent likes it or not. Team Rocket’s Thieving Machine and Team Rocket’s Master Plan round out the suite, both building on the theme of resource denial and tempo denial that Team Rocket decks have classically embraced. New Team Rocket’s Shady Tickets will also appear as special event rewards — they’re tied to mystery redemptions, so hang on to them.
A Month of Events and Free Rewards
Events tied to Team Rocket’s Ambition run through 28 September 2026, so there’s plenty of time to top up your collection even if you can’t grind daily:
- Battle missions reward Team Rocket’s Shady Tickets — keep an eye on what they unlock as the event unfolds.
- Solo battles let you farm B-series vol. 12 promo packs, which include a promo version of Team Rocket’s Lapras.
- Wonder Pick event features Fennekin and Meowstic promo cards.
- The Great Puzzle Challenge runs on a dedicated campaign site — solve the web-based puzzles to earn serial codes that drop pack hourglasses directly into your account.
- From 1 September, new covers and backdrops featuring Giovanni and Persian become available — the noir-style artwork is worth collecting even if you just play casually.
Team Rocket’s Ambition is available in the Pokémon TCG Pocket app globally as of today. If you’re heading to the Pokémon Worlds 2026 watch party this weekend, there’s no shortage of Pocket pulls to chase between matches.