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One Dog, Two Dog, Old Dog, New Dog

Metagame-Influenced Lists for Zoroark/Golisopod and Sylveon, plus Zoroark/Lucario for Expanded “I have always been a fan of the consistency Golisopod-GX/Zoroark-GX brings to the table, and I have liked its matchups as of late. Having a chance to win a majority of your games is a very nice feeling, as you almost never brick and its autolosses are not very popular. My list might seem a little strange, so let me talk about why I chose these sixty cards. Going into the weekend, I wanted to be favored in mirror match and Buzzwole/Lycanroc because I thought they were the best two decks and expected them to be the most popular. With…

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The Great Divide

Bridging the Gap Between Night March and All the Rest “I took YZG to a 5th place finish at the New Hampshire State Championships this past Saturday. I went a clean 5-0 in Swiss rounds and drew my way into 1st seed. This actually not the exact list I played — I subsequently swapped a Super Rod for an Yveltal BKT. I found that with Puzzle of Time, the Super Rod that I played was excessive. Yveltal BKT’s Ability offers too much utility against Night March to pass up. If I could do Saturday morning over again, these are the 60 cards that I would play. My Top 8 opponent was a very good…

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What Does the Fox Say?

1st Place 2014 North Carolina State Championship Report “Coming into this weekend I felt that Ryan and I had a strong grasp on the metagame for the Carolinas. After Ryan placed 3rd at the Virginia State Championships with Aromatisse/Genesect while I took the weekend off, we went back to the drawing board in preparation for the upcoming event in Tennessee. With my mind set on playing an unusual deck that weekend my options were either Kingdra/Greninja or Flygon/Dusknoir/Accelgor. Both decks have their place in the format, and the surprise factor at an event where almost nobody had testing against anything like them was sure to be advantageous. I…