Mesprit – Space-Time Smackdown
Date Reviewed: April 27, 2025
Ratings Summary:
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is horrible. 3 is average. 5 is great.
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Mesprit (A2 076, 166) is a Psychic-Type Basic Pokémon. Mesprit has 70 HP, (D) Weakness, (C) Retreat Cost, and the attack “Supreme Blast”. For (P)(P)(P), Supreme Blast lets Mesprit do 160 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon. However, Supreme Blast states that you must have a card named “Uxie” and a card named “Azelf” on your Bench in order to use it, and Mesprit has to discard all Energy attached to itself. Mesprit is available as a ♦♦♦ and ★ rare.
The Psychic Type has two pieces of support: Gardevoir (A1 132) and Mythical Slab (A1a 065). The former provides (P) Energy acceleration for your Active (P) Pokémon, the latter lets you look at the top card of your deck, then add it to your hand if it is a (P) Pokémon, or bottom deck it if it is anything else. Exploiting (P) Weakness helps if Mesprit is attacking Gallade ex (A2 095, 185, 200), but not much else.
Being a Basic Pokémon is simply the best. The non-simple explanation is they don’t require additional cards or turns to hit the field, unlike Evolutions. Poké Ball (P-A 005; A2b 111) and Shaymin (A2a 069, 081)1 are proven pieces of Basic support – especially the former – while anti-Basic effects2 (and the other bits of Basic support3) haven’t seen much in the way of competitive success. Though there is a chance this could change when Celestial Guardians (A3) releases.
70 HP is low. Expect Mesprit to be OHKO’d while Active, unless your opponent’s setup is poor. Mesprit is at increased risk of being donked because of it, but at least it isn’t as vulnerable as lower HP scores. (D) Weakness barely matters, as it enables some unexpected (and unlikely) OHKOs. The Retreat Cost of (C) is good. It shouldn’t be overly hard to pay it, but if it is a concern, there’s Leaf (A1 068, 082), Shaymin (see above), and/or X Speed (P-A 002).
Supreme Blast has a fantastic return on the Energy invested. For just three Psychic Energy, Supreme Blast delivers extra heavy damage output, even if only just. Before Weakness or other card effects, this is enough to OHKO every Basic Pokémon, every Stage 1 except Gyarados ex (A1a 018, 076). You have to be a Stage 2 Pokémon ex to be outside off Supreme Blast’s OHKO range. While discarding all Energy attached sounds bad… it only really matters if Mesprit survives the next turn.
Supreme Blast has another condition that must be met: you need an Azelf and an Uxie on your Bench. For now, there’s only Azelf (A2 077) and Uxie (A2 075). While that means, in the future, we could have other options, I don’t think that this will change anytime soon. Genetic Apex and Mythical Island covered Gen I & II, Space-Time Smackdown, Triumphant Light, and Shining Revelry seem to be Gen III focused, while Celestial Guardians will bring us (mostly) Gen IV Pokémon.
Both Azelf and Uxie have the same stats as Mesprit: (P) Basic Pokémon with 70 HP, (D) Weakness, (C) Retreat Cost. They also have a single attack, but unlike Mesprit, Azelf and Uxie only need (P) to use their attack. Azelf can use “Psychic Arrow” to do 20 damage to one of your opponent’s Pokémon, letting you pick which one. Uxie does 20 damage to the opposing Active, while attaching a (P) Energy from your discard pile to a Benched Mesprit or Azelf.
These attacks aren’t bad, but I don’t know if I can call them “good”. Uxie helps ready Mesprit, but if you don’t attack (and thus attach) twice with Uxie, you’re not any Energy ahead. Azelf doesn’t quite hit hard enough to score the glorious OHKO against Magikarp (A1a 017), but it is good that you can choose the opponent’s Active or a Pokémon on their Bench. Azelf can also set up the few Pokémon large enough to not be OHKO’d by Supreme Blast.
Still, even Uxie isn’t something you’d run if Supreme Blast didn’t require it. Gardevoir decks aren’t much of a “thing” right now, but if Supreme Blast didn’t require the other two on your Bench, it’d have been worth using so you could ready a Mesprit in a turn, attack with it, then after it was KO’d, ready a second Mesprit in a single turn. Which is why we so rarely see a Mesprit (or “Lake Trio”) deck perform well. Then, two about weeks ago, Jucchan42 finished in 15th in a 747 person event.
It doesn’t look like it has been added to LimitlessTCG’s tournament results yet, but you can find the list (and an explanation of it) over in Pokémon Zone’s tournament coverage. Main gist of the deck is running the Lake Trio, Giratina ex (A2b 035, 083, 096), the usual assortment of Trainers… which, in this case, includes Dawn (A2 154, 194). Giratina ex does its usual thing, but with the bonus of “donating” a (P) Energy to Mesprit, via Dawn.
Rating: 3/5
An optimistic score, considering how few Lake Trio decks are seen in tournaments, and how I normally prefer there be at least a few dozen examples of the deck doing well, instead of… just one. There’s a good chance that Giratina ex carried the deck, but that beats being something that can’t even cope when it is being carried. I’m a little disappointed even Lake Trio decks don’t bother with Celestic Town Elder, though.
1Shaymin is likely a poor fit for Lake Trio decks, where Bench-space is at a premium.
2Pokémon Flute (A1a 064) and Victreebel (A1 020).
3Celestic Town Elder (A2a 073, 088) and Combee (A2 017, 157).
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