Looking at Ultra Necrozma-GX/Malamar for NAIC “12 open spots The above list is close to the bare minimum on the type of cards that can be played. That’s not to say some open slots are immediately filled for consistency reasons, like the 4th Malamar, 3rd Metal Energy, and 2nd recovery card. However, there are many different ways to take the deck, and different techs are required. As an overview, a Parallel City version works, a hyper consistent version works, and a single-Prize Pokemon version works. Beast Ring works, and Professor’s Letter works too. The path you take is dependent on the matchups you’re trying to hedge,…
Lightning-Lock Revisited, Animal Control 2.0, and the Bats and the Bees for US Nationals “You may recognize this deck from my last article, but it’s gone through some significant changes. I’ve been tweaking it since Georgia Regionals and I still like the concept. This list is basically an attempt to do everything. It embodies the saying: “Jack of all trades, master of none.” Lightning-Lock is purely an anti-meta deck. I took Jolteon-EX, and built a deck around countering Jolteon’s weaknesses so that it beats every meta deck. Of course, it has some flaws and is not perfect, but overall it performs well and I definitely consider it to be a strong contender for Nationals.…
These daring Pokémon have coins on their foreheads. Darker coins are harder, and harder coins garner more respect among ______. (Galarian Meowth)