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Owls, Trash Cans, and Sea Monsters (Oh My!) for Seattle “Expanded League Cup Deck: Accelgor DEX/Trevenant XY R1 Primal Groudon-EX (2-0) R2 Lurantis/Vileplume (2-0) R3 Sylveon-GX (1-1) R4 Lurantis/Vileplume/Virizion-EX (1-2) R5 Waterbox (2-1) Final: 3-1-1 (9th) I chose Accelgor/Trevenant for my Expanded cup because I wanted to use GRI cards and decided that, with the release of the Grass Phantump, it would be incredibly easy to get a T1 Trevenant using Forest of Giant Plants. The deck was good overall, with my only loss being to a Virizion-EX. Bubbling Top 8 at 9th was a bit unfortunate, but I’m sure my list was a bit rough. I believe the concept is something…
New Archetypes for Guardians Standard “Vikavolt SUM is a card I was very interested in when it was released, and now that it has a GX counterpart, the concept can only be stronger. The general strategy is to get out all of your Grubbin ASAP and evolve them into Vikavolts. From there, you begin using your multiple methods of Energy acceleration to get your attackers online and ready to start dishing out serious damage. The acceleration provided by Vikavolt SUM is actually incredibly powerful, and is complemented by the acceleration attack on the GX! With a single Vikavolt’s energy acceleration plus an attachment, you can…
Brazil Recap and Meta Reset “The Top 32 of the Brazilian Intercontinental Championship looked like this: Top 8 Standings played out as such: 1. Juan Pablo Salas [CL] – Decidueye GX/Vileplume AOR/Jolteon EX/Regice AOR 2. Thiago Giovannetti Marques Ricardo [BR] – Decidueye GX/Vileplume AOR/Yanmega STS 3. Ian Anderson Fukuda [BR] – M Rayquaza EX 4. Connor Finton [US] – Decidueye GX/Vileplume AOR 5. Philip Schulz [DE] – Turbo Darkrai EX 6. Sid Filho [BR] – Volcanion EX 7. Diego Cassiraga [AR] – Decidueye GX/Vileplume AOR 8. Yee Wei Chun [MY] – Volcanion EX There weren’t really a ton of surprises this past weekend. We didn’t really see any crazy…
An In-Depth Look at M Mewtwo for Salt Lake City “1-1 Espeon GX I played this cute tech at Anaheim Regionals right after Sun & Moon dropped largely because I believed it was good against Vespiquen, mirror, and could handle Giratina-EX Admittedly, it was also shiny and new with all of the Sun & Moon hype. While I loved playing the cards, I do think those two spots can probably be better handled at the moment. It’s also somewhat difficult to justify attaching twice to Espeon-GX over a Mewtwo at most points of a game. It wasn’t as strong against Vespiquen as I wanted it to be because their Stadium of choice has largely…
An Evaluation of the Popular Trends Emerging from St. Louis and Ways to Counter Them for Portland (i.e., Wobbuffet Decks) “Before any big tournament I always like to look at the most recent tournament results of that format and try and gauge how I think the metagame will change based on those results. The Top 8 of St. Louis ended up looking like this: Alex Wilson … M Rayquaza-EX John Kettler … Decidueye-GX/Vileplume AOR/Lugia-EX Rahul Reddy … Volcanion-EX John Sienkiewicz … Night March/Tauros-GX Anthony Nimmons … Accelgor DEX/Wobbuffet PHF Alex Schemanske … Seismitoad-EX/Decidueye-GX/Wobbuffet PHF Ross Cawthon … Lurantis-GX/Vileplume AOR Israel Sosa … Yveltal-EX/Maxie’s Along with acknowledging which decks did the best, it’s important to notice which decks were the most…
On days when blizzards blow through, it comes down to where people live. It stashes food in the snowball on its head, taking it home for later. (Galarian Darmanitan)
Introducing Hoothoot/Decidueye and Updating Yveltal/Garb, Scizor/Raticate, and Vespiquen/Friends with Sun & Moon for Anaheim “Here we have an updated version of the undisputed BDIF of the PRC–EVO format. While it may not have had very strong showings at the last two major Standard events of the season (Dallas and Athens), this is absolutely a deck you should not forget exists. While the deck has not received a drastic overhaul from Sun & Moon, it has received a couple of new options that I believe will help to solve major issues that were being exploited and catapult the deck back to the forefront of the metagame. Garbodor is an incredibly safe play going into a…
A Bright Look at Counters to the Plague of Darkness Coming to Fort Wayne “This deck was very under the radar before Orlando Regionals but has since entered into an incredibly strange spot in the metagame that I’m not entirely certain I’ve ever seen happen to a deck in my time playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Even though it has no substantial finishes inside of the United States, it has already surfaced as the best and most obvious counter to the T8 decks that terrorized Orlando. I believe this information became common knowledge among competitive players rather quickly and will cause players to be prepared to face the deck despite its lack of results.…
Jumping nimbly about, this small-bodied Pokémon takes advantage of even the slightest opportunity to disorient larger opponents. (Rookidee)
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