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Steel Apron
Trainer
“Steel Apron” (A4-153) is a Trainer card from the Wisdom of Sea and Sky set in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Its type is Tool, and its effect is: The {M} Pokémon this card is attached to takes −10 damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon, recovers from all Special Conditions, and can't be affected by any Special Conditions.
Use this Steel Apron page to confirm its set, pack sources, and deck roles before adding Steel Apron to your collection.
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Steel Apron Card Details
Illustrator·Studio Bora Inc.Effect
The {M} Pokémon this card is attached to takes −10 damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon, recovers from all Special Conditions, and can't be affected by any Special Conditions.
How to get Steel Apron
Deck snapshot
Where Steel Apron is played
Observed use in sampled public tournaments. These figures are not ladder usage, a card win rate, or a recommendation to play a particular number of copies. Versions with the same effect are combined. Examples retain their source artwork.
- Tournament usage
- 0.7%
- 19 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 73.7% of lists using it
Decks that use “Steel Apron”
Small sample; interpret with care.
Event window: Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Daily tournament data
Build with Steel Apron
Seen in 0.7% of 2,912 sampled tournament lists. Most lists that use it run 1 copy.
Small sample; interpret with care.
- Tournament usage
- 0.7%
- 19 / 2,912 lists
- Most common count
- 1 copy
- 73.7% of lists using it
- Average copies
- 1.26
- Among lists using it
- Archetypes
- 3
- Current decks using it
Decks that use “Steel Apron”
- Mega Mawile ex
- 1 copy
- 80.0% (4)
- 2 copies
- 20.0% (1)
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- Inclusion
- 100.0%
- Meta share
- 0.2%
Real 2-copy list
- 1× Mega Mawile ex
- 2× Irida
- 2× Pokémon Center Lady
- 2× Steel Apron
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 2× Metal Core Barrier
- 2× Soothing Shore
- 2× Rainbow Cave
- 2× Team Rocket's Goo-zooka
- 1× Potion
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Mega Scizor ex Revavroom
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (5)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 41.7%
- Meta share
- 0.4%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Varoom
- 1× Pichu
- 2× Scyther
- 2× Mega Scizor ex
- 2× Revavroom
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Red
- 1× Steel Apron
- 1× Copycat
- 1× Metal Core Barrier
- 1× Training Area
- 2× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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- Melmetal ex Melmetal
- 1 copy
- 100.0% (2)
- 2 copies
- 0.0% (0)
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- Inclusion
- 66.7%
- Meta share
- 0.1%
Real 1-copy list
- 2× Meltan
- 1× Melmetal
- 2× Melmetal ex
- 1× Sabrina
- 1× Cyrus
- 1× Red
- 1× Steel Apron
- 1× Heavy Helmet
- 2× Copycat
- 2× Lucky Ice Pop
- 2× Metal Core Barrier
- 1× Training Area
- 1× Poké Ball
- 2× Professor's Research
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Tournament intelligence
Steel Apron in tournament decks
This card appears in 3 current and 4 historical tournament archetypes.
Tournament deck data sourced from Limitless Tournament Platform.
Historical decks featuring this card
Archived tournament profiles where this card appeared in at least half of tracked decklists.
- Archived meta snapshot
Melmetal ex Galarian Perrserker
Last seen Aug 9, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Mega Steelix ex Indeedee ex
Last seen Oct 16, 2026100.0% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Melmetal ex Melmetal
Last seen Aug 3, 202666.7% card inclusion
- Archived meta snapshot
Mega Metagross ex Metagross
Last seen Sep 3, 202666.7% card inclusion
Tournament synergy
Cards commonly played with Steel Apron
These cards appear in the same tournament archetypes as Steel Apron. Rankings use archetype-level samples and inclusion; they do not measure how often two cards occur in the exact same list.
Metal Core Barrier
B2-148
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Professor's Research
P-A-007
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 100.0%
Cyrus
A2-150
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 95.0%
Copycat
B1-225
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 95.0%
Sabrina
A1-225
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 60.0%
Poké Ball
P-A-005
- shared archetypes
- 3
- avg. inclusion
- 80.0%
