Early Chaos Rising videos
A trio of recent creator uploads is mapping the early competitive picture for the Chaos Rising Pokémon TCG environment — they mix tournament recaps, full tournament runs, and focused spotlights. The videos are titled “The Top Decks From The First Chaos Rising Tournament,” “Putting Alakazam To The Test - Tournament Run,” and “Cynthia's Garchomp Is FINALLY Good,” each showing practical match play and deck stress tests rather than just theorycraft. These uploads are being used to judge which lists survived real matches and which archetypes might be shifting into viability. (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
Three fresh YouTube uploads are becoming an early scoreboard for Chaos Rising testing, with one recap video and two full deck trials posted between April 10 and April 11. (youtube.com 1) (youtube.com 2) AzulGG posted “Putting Alakazam To The Test - Tournament Run” on April 11, 2026, and “Cynthia's Garchomp Is FINALLY Good” on April 10, 2026. Search results for those pages show both as gameplay-focused deck videos rather than set overviews. (youtube.com 1) (youtube.com 2) The third video, “The Top Decks From The First Chaos Rising Tournament,” is framed as a recap of the first event built around the new card pool. Search results for Chaos Rising coverage also show creators and tournament trackers already separating “post-rotation” results from older Standard data. (youtube.com) (limitlesstcg.com) Chaos Rising itself is not in wide retail release yet. The Pokémon Company said on March 12 that Mega Evolution—Chaos Rising arrives on May 22, 2026, with prerelease events scheduled for May 9 through May 17. (pokemon.com) That timing is why these videos are getting attention now: they are filling the gap before official large-paper results exist in English. In practice, creators are using early access, online events, and post-rotation testing rooms to show which lists can survive actual match play. (pokemon.com) (limitlesstcg.com) The Alakazam test matters because the deck had already started to post measurable online finishes in the current 2026 rotation environment. Limitless lists Alakazam at 60 wins against 39 losses and 2 ties in POR Standard 2026, including a third-place finish in a 178-player event on March 31 and a second-place finish in a 57-player event on April 4. (limitlesstcg.com) Cynthia’s Garchomp has a larger sample and slightly positive aggregate numbers in the same format. Limitless shows 596 wins, 561 losses, and 3 ties for the deck, plus first-place finishes on March 31 and April 1 and a second-place finish in a 75-player event on April 10. (limitlesstcg.com) That is a change from earlier major in-person results, where Cynthia’s Garchomp mostly sat outside top cut. Limitless tournament history shows finishes such as 91st at Regional Sydney on February 7, 659th at Europe International Championships in London on February 13, and 349th at Regional Seattle on February 28 before newer online results improved. (limitlesstcg.com 1) (limitlesstcg.com 2) (limitlesstcg.com 3) Alakazam’s case is different: the archetype has existed longer, but its post-rotation numbers are stronger than its older 2023-format record. Limitless shows Alakazam ex at 37.26 percent in the older PAR Standard 2023 page, compared with 59.41 percent on the current POR Standard 2026 page. (limitlesstcg.com) (limitlesstcg.com) The deck names also point to what testers are hunting for before release: whether Chaos Rising cards lift fringe strategies into the group of decks players must prepare for. With prereleases starting May 9, the next few weeks are likely to turn these creator runs into a rough draft of the first Chaos Rising metagame. (pokemon.com) (youtube.com)
