Deceptive Needle
About Deceptive Needle — Strengths
+ It's a Tool card — attaches to one Pokémon and stays until that Pokémon leaves play.
Deceptive Needle is a Uncommon card from the Ruler of the Skies set — a Trainer card. Check its effect and which pack it drops from below.
Card effect
Deceptive Needle Trainer - Tool
Which pack does this card drop from?
Three ways to get this card
Want to know exactly how many packs you need to open to get Deceptive Needle?
Is Deceptive Needle played in any meta deck?
Deceptive Needle is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. It is a filler card: Pack Points cost only 70, so do not burn packs hunting it — open packs for the rare slots and this one arrives on its own.
Same type in this set
Reading Deceptive Needle's stat block
Deceptive Needle is a Uncommon card from the Ruler of the Skies set — a Trainer card of the Tool kind: no HP, no evolution, no attacks of its own. It hits the table, fires its effect, and steps aside.
What it does: Deceptive Needle Trainer - Tool
Trainer cards are balanced by how often you may play them in a turn, not by damage. Read the effect against what your deck is short of — energy acceleration, draw, healing, or forcing a switch — because a Trainer is only strong when it solves the exact bottleneck your deck actually has.
Which pack actually drops it
The per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover Deceptive Needle's exact rarity grade, so no number is shown here — that's a data gap, not proof this is a PROMO card: Deceptive Needle genuinely belongs to Ruler of the Skies. Use Pack Points or trading below while this gets filled in. This page shows no per-slot odds or expected pack count for Deceptive Needle because the rate table doesn't yet cover its exact grade — making up a number here would be a lie. This is NOT a PROMO card: it belongs to Ruler of the Skies. Pack Points and trading below still work.
Three ways to own it
For Deceptive Needle, pulling packs is still a real path — it belongs to Ruler of the Skies — but the per-slot rate table doesn't yet cover its exact grade, so this page won't guess a number. The second path removes luck entirely. Every pack you open awards 5 Pack Points (an official in-game mechanic, not part of the drop-rate table) regardless of what comes out of it, and those points accumulate until you can redeem this exact card outright. Deceptive Needle costs 70 PP — no pulls, no gambling, just the count. The third path is trading, which spends Shinedust rather than Pack Points, and whether it is open to you depends entirely on the card's rarity. For Deceptive Needle: It can be traded, and it costs 0 Shinedust.
Evolution line and other printings
Deceptive Needle does not evolve from or into anything — it stands alone. Some Pokémon are also printed more than once — across different sets or promo drops, with different art, different rarity, and sometimes different attacks under the same name. Where other printings of this card exist, they are linked on this page, because the stats can differ even when the name matches.
Where this card stands on the ladder
Deceptive Needle is not a core card in any of the 50 meta decks currently tracked. It is a filler card: Pack Points cost only 70, so do not burn packs hunting it — open packs for the rare slots and this one arrives on its own. The meta deck table is recomputed from tournament data (play rate plus win/loss/tie record), not from anyone's opinion. A card missing from that table can still be beautiful and still be expensive to trade for, but it will not win games on its own — those are two different questions and this page answers them separately.
Frequently asked questions
Which pack should I open to get Deceptive Needle?
Ruler of the Skies — the card genuinely belongs to that pack. The page just hasn't computed an exact percentage yet because the per-slot data doesn't cover this grade.
Roughly how many packs does it take to pull Deceptive Needle?
No reliable number here: the per-slot rate data doesn't yet cover Deceptive Needle's grade, even though it does drop from Ruler of the Skies. Use Pack Points or trading while this gets filled in.
Can I trade for Deceptive Needle instead of pulling it?
It can be traded, and it costs 0 Shinedust. Trading uses Shinedust, and whether a card is tradeable at all is fixed by its rarity tier — Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards can never be traded under any circumstance, so for those two tiers Pack Points or a direct pull are the only ways in.