“Tombstone Piledriver” — Highlighting Three of the Top Performing Decks from Limitless Q4, Including Zacian V/Combo, ADP/Spiritomb, and Spiritomb/Ultra Beasts

Hello again, 6P readers! I hope everyone is doing well. For this next article, I’ll be going over three strong decks that performed well at the fourth Limitless Online Series Qualifier then give my personal changes to each deck moving forward. Recently, Limitless held its third and fourth Online Series Qualifiers which had over 1,100 and 1,300 players respectively. That’s pretty awesome considering they aren’t official events.

The three decks I’ll be discussing are decks I’ve been meaning to talk about even before the Limitless events happened, so it’s pretty cool that the three decks made it far with one of them ultimately winning the whole event. Those three decks are:

Zacian V/Combo,
ADP-GX/Spiritomb UNB, and finally
Spiritomb UNB/Ultra Beasts.

These decks are big threats in the format right now and will continue to dominate if players aren’t careful.

1st: Taketo Seki: Zacian V/Combo

via: https://limitlesstcg.com/decks/?list=4314

Decklist

Pokémon (14)

1 Mew UNB

Trainer (34)

4 Professor’s Research

3 Boss’s Orders

2 Marnie

2 Sonia

4 Switch

1 Shrine of Punishment

Energy (12)

12 M

Copy List

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 14

* 4 Zacian V SSH 138
* 3 Jirachi TEU 99
* 2 Oranguru SSH 148
* 1 Dedenne-GX UNB 57
* 1 Jirachi p CES 97
* 1 Mawile-GX UNM 141
* 1 Mew UNB 76
* 1 Mr. Mime DET 11

##Trainer Cards - 34

* 4 Professor’s Research SSH 178
* 3 Boss’s Orders RCL 154
* 2 Marnie SSH 169
* 2 Sonia RCL 167
* 4 Metal Saucer SSH 170
* 4 Quick Ball SSH 179
* 4 Scoop Up Net RCL 165
* 4 Switch SSH 183
* 1 Friend Ball CES 131
* 1 Tool Scrapper RCL 168
* 1 Great Catcher CEC 192
* 2 Metal Goggles TEU 148
* 1 Escape Board UPR 122
* 1 Shrine of Punishment CES 143

##Energy - 12

* 12 M Energy Energy 8

Total Cards - 60

****** via SixPrizes: https://sixprizes.com/?p=81562 ******

Key Cards

2 Oranguru SSH, 1 Jirachi p, 1 Mr. Mime DET

This combo is why the deck has combo in its name and is a force to be reckoned with, even against Fire-based decks like Blacephalon. To do the combo correctly, you have to:

Use Oranguru SSH to place Jirachi p on top of your deck.
Then use Mr. Mime DET to replace one of your Prize cards with the top card of your deck (i.e., Jirachi p). You will know exactly where Jirachi p is because you can put it wherever you like into your Prize cards.
Once you take a Prize, you simply remember to select Jirachi and put it onto your Bench (remember to have a Bench spot for Jirachi or else the effect will not work).

1 Mawile-GX

Being able to force Pokémon onto the opponent’s Bench can be crucial to victory. If you are able to force down a GX, then you can potentially take 2+ Prizes on it depending on what it is. On top of that, if you force the opponent to put down a Dedenne-GX, for instance, then its Ability will have been wasted. Also, filling their Bench with Pokémon they don’t want on their Bench can be helpful as well.

1 Mew UNB

Mainly used for its Ability against PikaRom so that Tag Bolt-GX is unable to take more than 2 Prize cards at a time. If this happens, you may fall too far behind on the Prize trade.

2 Sonia

It was interesting to see not one but two copies of this card in the winning list. After trying the card out, it’s actually very good in this deck because it makes finding your combo pieces much easier. Not only that, but you can grab whichever 2 Basic Pokémon you want. I’m now a fan of Sonia after seeing it in this deck for sure.

Metal Goggles over Metal Frying Pan

I can see why Taketo went with Metal Goggles over Metal Frying Pan, because of cards like Dragapult VMAX that would put damage counters on your Pokémon. Metal Goggles prevents those damage counters. Goggles is also quite good in the mirror match because the opponent will be unable to 1HKO Zacian V with one of their own, unless they use a Tool Scrapper. Quite frankly, Goggles is one of the reasons Taketo was able to beat Azul in the finals of Qualifier #4.

4 Scoop Up Net

This card helps reuse both Mr. Mime DET and Jirachi p. By picking them back up you are able to do the combo again. In a perfect world, you can combo three times if you use your resources efficiently. This is why this deck can beat anything and we saw three of them in Top 8.

1 Tool Scrapper

As I said, Scrapper is used to get rid of Metal Goggles and Metal Frying Pan. However, getting rid of other Tools such as Big Charm will help us take those 1HKOs much easier as well.

Changes Moving Forward

-1 Mawile-GX
-1 Mew UNB
+4th Jirachi TEU
+2nd Mr. Mime DET
-1 Boss’s Orders
+2nd Escape Board

I’m not a big fan of Mawile-GX or Mew UNB, so I’d replace those with more consistency. I’d add a 4th copy of Jirachi TEU so that you can open it more often. I’d add another Mr. Mime DET in case you prize it, plus it then becomes easier to find since it’s searchable, unlike Scoop Up Net, in case you need to combo again.

I would also drop 1 Boss’s Orders for a 2nd Escape Board because I think two is correct if you are going to play 4 Jirachi TEU. Azul played two copies of Boss’s Orders, so I think two is fine to run.

Potential Inclusions

Zamazenta V

Some decks are playing Pokémon VMAX such as Dragapult VMAX and Toxtricity VMAX, so Zamazenta V can be used as a wall until you set up or as an attacker. However, I’d recommend not attacking with it since it barely even 2HKOs stuff.

Dusk Mane Necrozma SM107

If you need to set up a 2HKO on a Pokémon-GX such as PikaRom, then Dusk Shot can be clutch. Azul played a copy in his 2nd place list at Qualifier #4.

Tapu Fini UNM

Given that Blacephalon UNB can be a threat to this deck I recommend playing Tapu Fini UNM if you expect Blacephalon to rise even more. However, I think Blacephalon can still struggle against Zacian V/Combo even without Tapu Fini. You just have to make sure you take the first 2 Prize cards before Blacephalon does.