Basic Red (TCG)

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Basic Red, formerly known as Firestarter, is a Theme Deck from the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online from the HeartGold & SoulSilver era of the game. It predominantly focuses on -type Pokémon. It is no longer available to new players. Like other exclusive Theme Decks from this era, if players already unlocked it, it continues to be playable in all game modes.

The Basic Red deck

The deck unlocked a card every time a game was won with it, until all eleven cards were unlocked. All deck unlocks had a specific card which was added, and a specific card which was removed.

Deck list

Initial deck

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
4×	Cyndaquil
3×	Quilava
1×	Typhlosion
3×	Magmar
4×	Vulpix
1×	Ninetales
3×	Rattata
4×	Eevee
2×	Flareon
1×	Energy Returner	I
1×	Full Heal	I
2×	PlusPower	I
2×	Potion	I
3×	Bill	Su
2×	Copycat	Su
24×	Fire Energy	E	—

Final deck

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
4×	Cyndaquil
3×	Quilava
3×	Typhlosion
2×	Growlithe
1×	Arcanine
3×	Magmar
1×	Magmortar
3×	Vulpix
1×	Ninetales
3×	Rattata
2×	Raticate
3×	Eevee
2×	Flareon
1×	Full Heal	I
2×	Potion	I
2×	Bill	I
2×	Copycat	Su
2×	Fisherman	Su
2×	Professor Elm's Training Method	Su
1×	Burned Tower	St
17×	Fire Energy	E	—

Unlocks

Wins	Added to deck	Removed from deck
1	Magmortar	Fire Energy
2	Fisherman	Energy Returner
3	Fisherman	PlusPower
4	Raticate	Fire Energy
5	Raticate	Fire Energy
6	Growlithe	Vulpix
7	Growlithe	Eevee
8	Professor Elm's Training Method	PlusPower
9	Professor Elm's Training Method	Bill
10	Burned Tower	Fire Energy
11	Arcanine	Fire Energy

See also

• List of Pokémon Trading Card Game Online decks
• Theme Deck

This article is part of both Project Sidegames and Project TCG, Bulbapedia projects that, together, aim to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon Sidegames and TCG, respectively.