3 Fun Decks to Try with the New Set “Umbreon-GX is one of the main cards people have noticed, and for good reason! Umbreon has very good typing, identical to that of Darkrai-EX. It has Resistance to Psychic, which is helpful against decks like Mega Mewtwo and Mega Gardevoir. It also has a good Weakness — Fighting — which isn’t very popular right now. Umbreon-GX’s attack is very similar to Darkrai-EX DEX’s Night Spear, doing 90 damage to the Active and 30 damage to one of your opponent’s Benched Pokemon, although instead costing of 2 Dark Energy and 1 Colorless, it costs only 1 Dark Energy and 2 Colorless. We…
Why Night March Ain’t Carin’ About Karen “Let’s start by taking a look at the Expanded meta after Phoenix Regionals and before the release of Karen, which consisted mainly of the “Big Three”: Dark variants, Trevenant, and Greninja. After Karen’s release, however, the meta will change tremendously. Since people are now largely disregarding Night March because of how bad Karen is for the deck, Trevenant loses one its main selling points (its strong Night March matchup), and therefore will not be played as much. Dark gains credibility since it no longer has to worry about troublesome Night March encounters, and in turn that makes Trevenant an even…
Joe Hebert’s Top 4 Seniors US Nationals 2016 Tournament Report “For the weeks leading up to Nationals I was completely undecided on what to play. I looked at a couple of the successful decks from European and Canadian Nationals and didn’t find a deck that I really liked. I expected for there to be tons of Mega Rayquaza and Waterbox at the tournament based on the results of those previous events. Metal: I had tested this deck and it seemed very consistent which was appealing for the biggest tournament of the year. Something that was not appealing about the deck was its matchups. I felt it lost to both Night March…
Known as a legendary hero, this Pokémon absorbs metal particles, transforming them into a weapon it uses to battle. (Zacian)
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