My latest deck is a neo-Gardevoir variant that uses Mesprit
So here’s how things went. I arrived at the venue about an hour early, since I wanted to get some trading done for my deck that I’m planning for Cities, and I realized I forgot to choose a deck to run for the day. I figured, no biggie, it’s a BR. So I threw together a quick list, filled out a deck check form, and got registered when it started. I originally didn’t like the deck, since it seemed like it got more bad starts than good, but I didn’t have time to be nit picky about it, so I just made some quick alterations and went with it.
The list was as follows:
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Pokémon-21: 4 Ralts PL 2 Kirlia SW 2 Gardevoir SW 1 Gardevoir PL 1 Gardevoir LV.X SW 1 Gallade SW 2 Baltoy GE 2 Claydol GE 2 Unown G GE 2 Mesprit LA 1 Uxie LA 1 Azelf LA |
Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums-26: 2 Luxury Ball 2 Night Maintenance 3 Warp Point 4 Super Scoop Up 4 Rare Candy 4 Bebe’s Search 4 Roseanne’s Research 2 Moonlight Stadium 1 Broken Time Space |
Energy-13: 5 P (Basic) 2 Rainbow (Special) 4 Call (Special) 2 Upper (Special) |
Round 1: Vs. Luxray/Manectric
I power lock the first 2 turns, to make sure that my setup didn’t get ruined by a Bright Look. After that, I had my Gallade running, so I just one shot everything she threw at me, since they all had fighting weakness. I also only had to flip the 1 Prize I was going to take to one shot Manectric, and none to KO Luxray, so I ended up winning fairly easily.
1-0
Round 2: Vs. Sableye/Mightyena/SP
Now, you look at the name of the main cards in the deck, and you think “Geez, what a god awful deck. Did he get a R1 bye or what?”. No, actually I helped this guy make this deck, and it’s specifically made to tear apart someone’s early game setup, since it can one shot most Stage 2 line’s basics with Sableye/Crobat drops, and can clean up later with Mightyena. This is literally a donk based deck that does not use Machamp, believe it or not.
So when we start, he’s got a Sableye so he goes first. He doesn’t have the Crobat and Special Darkness he needs to one shot my Ralts, so he Impersonates a Roseanne’s to get his Skuntank G and Poochyena. So from this, I know he’s planning on going fully aggro early on with the Mightyena, and using the Sableye to clean up, opposite of the norm, but still viable as long as they can’t heal in between turns (That was a reference to Nidoqueen Rising Rivals, if you didn’t know.)
I think, and I think, and I think, until I realize that Poison Structure is a power, and therefore I can shut if off with Psychic Bind/Lock and he won’t be able to attack every turn. I proceed to do that, and it gives me a fairly easy win.
2-0
Round 3: Vs. Gengar
If you’ve played Gardevoir in the last year, you know that Gengar is a horrible, horrible matchup. Everything on the field has a power, so it’s basically target practice for Shadow Room. Then I also had weakness to Psychic, which meant I was going to have to be extremely careful with Poltergeist, since I had to factor in weakness. Ouch.
As soon as I saw him open with Gastly, I was worried. So when I went second, I immediately Guard my Baltoy and the Ralts I was planning on evolving into the Gardevoir PL. I had to skip the T2 power lock for that, though, so he took advantage of the lull by using Uxie for 5, then burning a few cards to Cosmic for another 5.
Thankfully, I got yet another fast Gallade and quickly one shot his first Gengar while dropping Mesprits. And his second Gengar went down quickly after. No heads with Fainting Spell, so I’m thanking whatever deity may be listening to me that day, and I take out the rest of his setup with the Gardevoir SW.
3-0
Round 4: Vs. Flygon
I can’t really tell you much about this one, just that it was brutal. Early Mesprit drops ruined any chance of setting up using Cosmic Power or Setup, so he never really got much. By turn 4, I had a Gardevoir SW keeping him under lock, so he just scoops.
4-0
Round 5: Vs. Blaziken/Blaziken FB
Remember in the second round when I could win by shutting off their powers, since they couldn’t get their status working the way they wanted them to? Same strategy. Except that he actually could attack with Clutch, which made me use my Warp Points a lot faster than I wanted to. I just got an early Gardevoir LV.X and used it with Moonlight for my retreating purposes.
An interesting thing of note about this round is that all my Super Scoop Ups got a tails, therefore I had to use Gardevoir SW constantly for locking Powers.
5-0
Top 4: Vs. Flygon
He was very happy to get a rematch, after the beating he got in Swiss.
Round 1:
When we set up, I got an Unown G start going first. Yeah, I know it’s bad, too. I attached, and passed. He started with a Baltoy, and since he drew no basics to begin, I had an extra card in my hand from him not having any basics in his first hand so he used Baltoy’s Psychic Balance. I thought it odd that he didn’t have any Supporters, but I shrugged it off as just unlucky.
I used Roseanne’s to get a Psychic and a Ralts, and then when I was about to attach the Psychic to the Ralts, I realized that I didn’t have any damage on Unown G. I know some of you probably immediately think of using Unown G to attack, but I don’t. So I used Hidden Power for 50 to end the first round.
Round 2:
I got a beautiful, beautiful setup, and I was able to Guard early so he couldn’t even Inviting Trap to stall. It wasn’t a good thing for him.
Top 2: Vs. Regigigas
I was as confused as you are when I saw that that had made it to T2, but he had a few tricks up his sleeve.
Round 1:
He opens with Chatot G and Regigigas. He uses Chatot G’s attack to grab a Premier Ball while attaching to Regi, and passed. I got the worst start imaginable. All my Uppers were in hand, along with a bunch of Super Scoop Ups, and I started with an Unown G. I attached an Upper to Unown G, and passed. He goes for a Regice and Uxie with Roseanne’s, and uses Regice’s Regi Move to discard 2 Energy, and then drops Uxie for 3-4 after using that Premier Ball for Regigigas LV.X. He sacrifices the Uxie, and used Giga Blaster for the round.
Round 2:
This time I got a much better start, getting using Gallade’s Sonic Blade on turn 2 against his active Regigigas. He got the first Mesprit in, though, so I wasn’t able to keep him from using Sacrifice to heal and charge. It didn’t matter, though, since Gallade easily one shot everything on his field with minimal prize flipping.
Round 3:
I started with 2 Ralts, going first. I attached to the Ralts on my bench, and used Future Sight, putting a Rare Candy as my draw for the next turn. He draws, attaches to Regigigas, uses Regice’s Power to discard 2 Energy from his hand, uses a Level Max to jump right into the LV.X, sacrificed the Regice, and used Gigaton Punch to KO my Active Ralts. I responded by using that Rare Candy I got with Future Sight, and getting a turn 2 Gallade with a Bebe’s. Then I attached an Upper Energy and used Psychic Cut for 360 damage.
So I got first place with a deck I didn’t think was any good, and I pulled a Absol G LV.X and a Shiny from my winner packs. I’ve also ended my day with a 7-1 Win-Loss record for Battle Roads.
Not a bad way to start the season.
Very nice report and congrats!! Well done!
Btw, a player here (Chicago area) won the first 2 BRs running Gardy-Gallade-Weavile….
I wrote a whole article about that about a week and a half ago :D. Jeremy Adams was the player. I’m an Illinois player too- who/what age group are you?
Anyways, congrats on your creative play! I really like the mesprit in here, too. I got 2nd place in my BR too over the weekend– it’s a randomly viable deck! =P. Bullados recorded the entire final battle and we’re looking to get it up online :D
hey that was me.
i like this list.
i think im actually try a variation like this.(with out weavile)
but i will always run 2 gallade because when i first built the deck i ran one and went to sudden death in finals at cities and prized it.
but that my only reason.
its cool though.
does the gardy let you move the rainbows or only basics.
otherwise congrats on the win.
It says “you may move a psychic energy attached to one of your benched Pokemon to your active Pokemon” so I’d say rainbow is transferable too.
JWittz: I’m in Masters, but I’m also in MS, and people in my area don’t use their SD’s at BR’s. The best player in my area is Brent Siebenkittel, and I’m pretty sure he quit playing this year.
jeremy adams: Yeah, Rainbow’s transferable. One of my tactics is to attach Rainbow Energy to Claydol since it can take the damage counter, then Psychic Connect it to where I need it to be.
Congratulations Mach. What a great way to start the season! I was a little less stellar at our Battle Roads, going 0 for 3. They were interesting games with no complete blow outs, but things just were not going my way.
Congratulations Mach. What a great way to start the season! I was a little less stellar at our Battle Roads, going 0 for 3. They were interesting games with no complete blow outs, but things just were not going my way.
Nice report! Pretty impressive you made first with a deck built less than an hour before the first match :6
What a beast
Very nice report and congrats!! Well done!
Btw, a player here (Chicago area) won the first 2 BRs running Gardy-Gallade-Weavile….
I wrote a whole article about that about a week and a half ago :D. Jeremy Adams was the player. I’m an Illinois player too- who/what age group are you?
Anyways, congrats on your creative play! I really like the mesprit in here, too. I got 2nd place in my BR too over the weekend– it’s a randomly viable deck! =P. Bullados recorded the entire final battle and we’re looking to get it up online :D
hey that was me.
i like this list.
i think im actually try a variation like this.(with out weavile)
but i will always run 2 gallade because when i first built the deck i ran one and went to sudden death in finals at cities and prized it.
but that my only reason.
its cool though.
does the gardy let you move the rainbows or only basics.
otherwise congrats on the win.
It says “you may move a psychic energy attached to one of your benched Pokemon to your active Pokemon” so I’d say rainbow is transferable too.
JWittz: I’m in Masters, but I’m also in MS, and people in my area don’t use their SD’s at BR’s. The best player in my area is Brent Siebenkittel, and I’m pretty sure he quit playing this year.
jeremy adams: Yeah, Rainbow’s transferable. One of my tactics is to attach Rainbow Energy to Claydol since it can take the damage counter, then Psychic Connect it to where I need it to be.
Nice report! Pretty impressive you made first with a deck built less than an hour before the first match :6
What a beast
Good report, Congrats on the W
Good report, Congrats on the W
Hi, very nice report with very interesting list, but – in 3rd final game if your opponent used Regice’s power to discard 2 NRG from his hand you dont switch your benched Ralts with NRG to active like power says ? If you do this, U cant T2 RC – Gallade – Upper ftw, cus U dont have any NRG (except Upper) in play …
I had a Baltoy I decided to let him KO.
Hi, very nice report with very interesting list, but – in 3rd final game if your opponent used Regice’s power to discard 2 NRG from his hand you dont switch your benched Ralts with NRG to active like power says ? If you do this, U cant T2 RC – Gallade – Upper ftw, cus U dont have any NRG (except Upper) in play …
I had a Baltoy I decided to let him KO.
Good job on not using the weavile but the pl gardevoir. I would take out a luxury ball for one more gallade though.
Eh, after you flip your prizes, Gallade’s pretty useless unless you need the Fighting type for a matchup.
Good job on not using the weavile but the pl gardevoir. I would take out a luxury ball for one more gallade though.
Eh, after you flip your prizes, Gallade’s pretty useless unless you need the Fighting type for a matchup.
nice, good job.
cool deck good job.
nice, good job.
cool deck good job.
Not a bad way to start the season at all, you did excellent! Gardy is one bad mother!
Not a bad way to start the season at all, you did excellent! Gardy is one bad mother!
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