Scan. Analyze. Win.
Paste your deck, see if it actually works. Consistency testing, mulligan math, live meta decks, and an in-person match assistant for competitive Pokémon players.
v2.0.2 · Android 5.0+ · Built in Mexico
See it work in 20 seconds
Paste a decklist, watch the consistency score update live.
Demo video — coming soon
Three tools, one deck
Analyze, test, and play — without opening three different apps.
Analyze
A 0–100 consistency grade from exact hypergeometric math, an engine breakdown by job, and evolution lines drawn with real card art.
Test
Deal real hands, or run a hundred thousand of them — prize-aware, and simulated past the opening hand into turns 2 and 3.
Play
A match board, a prize-verification drill, and a full free-play surface for when you're at the table.
Most simulators stop at the opening hand
Every tool in this category computes probabilities for a decklist. TCG Tools evaluates the hand you were actually dealt, simulates past turn one, and tells you what to change.
It plays past turn 1
How often your Stage 1 and Stage 2 are genuinely in play, under the real rules — nothing evolves the turn it's played, Rare Candy skips the middle. Modelled going first, the harder side.
It knows six cards are gone
Prizes are set aside before the hand is dealt, and a searcher can't reach them. Simulating without that overstates every consistency number in the category.
It tells you what to change
One card out, one card in, with the score the swap actually earns. A deck is exactly sixty cards, so "add a Basic" isn't advice until something comes out.
It reads the hand in front of you
For a specific dealt hand: what to search for, what the hand is missing, which line to commit to. Never names a card you're already holding.
The match board
One phone, two players — no notepad, no forgetting whose turn it is.
- Mirrored two-player layout — one phone between you, and both sides read right-side-up.
- Prize card counters for both players, always in sync with the real board.
- Active and bench tracking for five Pokémon a side.
- Built-in per-player timers, so nobody's guessing how much round time is left.
The math behind the score
Not a black box — tap any grade and every term is shown.
Exact hypergeometric math
The consistency grade is calculated, not sampled — so it's the same number every time you open the deck. Tap it to see each term, the copies behind it, and any penalty applied.
Monte Carlo, with the error bar
A hundred thousand simulated hands, and the margin of error printed next to the result. Most tools show four significant figures and hide how confident they actually are.
Prize-corrected throughout
A 4-of isn't 4 available, it's about 3.6 once prizes are set aside. Every outs number in the app accounts for that instead of quietly rounding in your favour.
See what's actually winning
Your deck doesn't exist in a vacuum — neither does the app.
The top 40, ranked
Meta decks by share, with decklists, win rates and week-over-week movement. Tap any one to open, analyze or test it yourself.
Your deck vs the meta
It names your archetype and shows where your build differs — stated as an argument, not a diff. "You run 7 search cards to their 11, which costs you…"
Tournaments, searchable
Real finishes with player names and placings. Search across player, deck, event and Pokémon at once — "Steven metagross" finds exactly that.
Stores near you
A map of game stores around you, for when testing is done and you want a real match.
The meta section refreshes every day from a rolling week of tournament results. Position changes appear the next day; share percentages compare week over week.
Tournament data from Limitless TCG
Built for competitive Pokémon TCG.
Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic, One Piece, Digimon and Lorcana are next.
Free, forever
The whole analysis engine is free. Premium is for the deep simulation.
Questions
Is TCG Tools free?+
The entire analysis engine is free — consistency grade, engine breakdown, evolution lines, opening odds, the deck radar, meta decks, tournaments, and the practice modes. Premium adds the deep simulation: a hundred thousand hands, turns 2 and 3, and the what-to-change advice. Free saves 3 decks per game and is supported by ads.
What makes it different from the other deck calculators?+
Most of them compute probabilities for a decklist and stop at the opening hand. TCG Tools simulates into turns 2 and 3 under the real evolution rules, accounts for the six cards sitting in your prizes, reads a specific dealt hand and tells you how to play it, and proposes concrete swaps — one card out, one card in — with the score each change actually earns.
Does it work without signal?+
Yes. A bundled card index means analysis, card art and testing keep working offline — which is what most league venues are like.
Do I need an account to try it?+
You can explore the analysis tools before creating one. Saving decks and syncing across devices requires an account.
Where does the meta data come from?+
Real tournament results, via Limitless TCG. The meta section refreshes every day from a rolling week of them — position changes appear the next day, and share percentages compare week over week. TCG Tools is not affiliated with Limitless TCG.
What platforms does it run on?+
Android at launch. iOS is on the roadmap with no date set yet.
Why only Pokémon right now?+
Depth over breadth at launch. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic, One Piece, Digimon and Lorcana are next.
Who's building this?+
One developer, Polar Bear Studios, based in Mexico. See the About page for the full story.