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On Countering Buzzwole/Shrine of Punishments, Zoroark/Golisopod, and Zoroark/Lycanroc for Philly “The Baby Buzzwole/Shrine of Punishment deck first appeared on the radar a few weeks prior to the 2018 World Championship. Although the playerbase at large had mixed feelings on the deck, it made it’s presence known on both days of that tournament, putting up a dominant performance in Day 1 and putting a few players into the money on Day 2 as well. Looking back, it’s no surprise this deck turned out to be great. The combination of the early game aggression of Buzzwole and the late game one hit KO potential of Trashalance is obviously very powerful, especially when…
Looking Back at Night March and Golisopod Garb in Expanded, Plus Gardevoir and Espeon for Standard “As an Expanded newbie, I approached my testing in a very simple way: practice the most straightforward and easy to pilot decks. This meant I logged in a ton of games with Expanded’s biggest 3 threats in Night March, Trevenant, and Turbo Dark. Practicing using these 3 decks in the ladder on PTCGO allowed me to get very comfortable with the format and how fast paced it is. In many ways, it was very similar to the Worlds format, but ACE SPECs, Colress and Battle Compressor definitely allow for it to be unique in it’s own way. As the event…
Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX/Mismagius Hand Lock for UPR–HIF/Atlantic City/Köln “For completion’s sake, here is the Day 2 meta breakdown from Sheffield Regionals: Reshiram & Charizard-GX: 18/55 (32.73%) Pikachu & Zekrom-GX: 8/55 (14.55%) Mewtwo & Mew-GX: 8/55 (14.55%) Malamar: 6/55 (10.91%) Blacephalon-GX: 4/55 (7.27%) Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX: 3/55 (5.45%) Oranguru/Pidgeotto: 3/55 (5.45%) Blacephalon UNB: 1/55 (1.82%) Keldeo-GX/Bronzong TEU: 1/55 (1.82%) Quagsire DRM/Naganadel LOT: 1/55 (1.82%) Shedinja Control: 1/55: (1.82%) Dark Box: 1/55 (1.82%) So what does all this mean for the meta? ReshiZard decks still have a hold as the most popular deck—and for good reason too. Having a powerhouse of an attacker and strong support in the forms of…
It will bravely challenge any opponent, no matter how powerful. This Pokémon benefits from every battle—even a defeat increases its strength a bit. (Rookidee)
A Look Back at MD-CL (2011) Format Gyarados “On paper, the entire strategy can be boiled down very easily. Place three Magikarp into the discard pile, use the fourth to evolve into Gyarados, and use Tail Revenge for zero Energy doing 90 damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon. Golly! Everything else in the deck was intended to set up the Tail Revenge as soon as possible, and (in a perfect world) make sure that the attack was used six times in a row to take six Prizes. In fact, this is one of the very few decks in Pokémon history that only wanted to use one damaging attack…
A clever combatant, this Pokémon battles using water balloons created with moisture secreted from its palms. (Drizzile)
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