I’m currently playing around with the winning list from Nice and I don’t really understand the Passimian inclusion. In which matchups do I use it in? Why is Passimian favoured over Enamorous?

Hi all! this is a decklist adapted from a post on October 8th by @ The_Verd29 on twitter. Check out the original list if you're interested!!

Mega Dragonite has interested me ever since it released in Ascended Heroes. It kind of seems like this card was created to be good, right?? 330dmg is a very common benchmark for stage 2 ex's and stage 1 megas (starmie, lopunny, sharpedo), and pecharunt has shown how powerful force switch abilities can be. Not to mention, it has a titanic 370hp, along with a Dragonair with a very powerful ability of its own (if it has an energy attached, it can search for any evolution pokemon and put it into your hand).

However, for as many strengths as it seemingly has, it also has quite a few weaknesses. That dragon typing isn't doing it any favors, as it can't benefit from hitting for weakness, and is in turn one-shot by Lillie's Clefairy. Its energy cost can be very difficult to fulfill as well, which isn't helped by the fact it discards two of them after attacking. It definitely doesn't help its setup that the only dratini available is 80hp and can't be searched with poffin. Also, shockingly, 330 damage comes a bit short on some relevant megas, like greninja, excadrill, and lucario.

Despite its really cool ability, I dismissed mdnite almost immediately after release, mostly because of that freebie mega dragonite + dynamotor eelektrik deck. I know some others experimented with pairing it with Blaziken, but either way, it was just inconsistent and suuper slow.

I came across the list I based this on, on Twitter, and immediately had to check it out. I know Crispin has been a very successful card in a ton of different lists, but I wasn't sure if it plus powerglass would be enough to fund Dragonite. And it turns out, it actually works surprisingly well!!

Evolutionary Guidance Dragonair is able to propagate pokemon in the same way that Champion's Call Gabite is able to, except it doesn't have the Cynthia's pokemon restriction. The optimal setup can feel really strong, with Mega Kanga sitting in the active, being fat and drawing cards, while filling out your bench with Lumiose City (works extremely well here since you aren't attacking for a couple turns at the start of a match!!). Volcanion ex is a great tech for making up the extra damage needed to snag the KO on all of the 340 and 350hp pokes, with the extra benefit of denying fezandipiti on KO.

As for my changes to the original list, I thought a 1-1 Mega Lopunny would really help Dragonite out. Along with offering shred damage, it also gives the deck a quick and efficient attacker that can be super helpful for going against basic box and picking off lower hp pokemon that would just be super inefficient to attack using dragonite. Not to mention it has great synergy with dragonite's ability!! it's really cool!!! I would just use rapid fire combo, but it requires a lot of energy commitments in a deck with a scarce energy economy and no great way to recover said attached energies.

My question for yall:
Secret Box feels difficult to use here!! The tool and supporter search is really useful but I have to wonder if there's any other one that would be a better fit.
I would also really like to make room for a Psyduck given that my locals has a bunch of Dusknoir roaming around. However, I'm not sure where to cut cards without cutting consistency. Maybe a boss?

So this question is for a judge and it’s about the card and the top half of this picture. It says search for three supporters or stadium cards. The new mega or legendary stadiums say on them that they count as one when played so if you use this supporter to search for three different cards, can you search for both halves of the new stadiums as one or does that count as two cards for the purpose of this search?

The new legendary stadiums require the two halves to be played, however as far as I understand both halves have the same name (Legendary Lava Lake for example). The rulebook states that you can only have 4 copies of a card with the same name. So, does that mean that you can only have a total of 4 pieces in your deck (for example 2 left 2 right or something crazy like 3 left 1 right ) or would you be able to have up to 4 of each?

It took us both 18 moves to finish.

Last cycle, the Ancient Koraidon deck was so ludicrously overpowered and the other decks so outmatched that people who rolled one of the other decks were conceding during the coin flip or as soon as they saw your first card. Just as a comparison, Koraidon, the main attacker, does 30x damage for each of your ancient Pokemon in play, meaning it could one hit the main attacker of the Iron Thorns (140 hp) deck without even having a full bench. Meanwhile Iron Thorns‘ main attack does 70x the number of Future cards discarded when you discard the top five cards OF A 40 CARD DECK. And with as few future cards as were included you often found 0 while still discarding 12.5% of your deck if you even got to that point.

This cycle, we have the god awful and pointless Landorus deck. It has 120 hp and does 120 damage for three energies. It gets one shotted by by the main attacker in Serperior deck, which it has a 2X weakness to, along with all the other pokemon in the deck except a single Hawlucha, which does a whopping max 90 damage. To one shot Serperior you have to set up a Landorus with three energies, a stadium (of which there are two in the deck and which the Serperior deck has counter stadiums for) AND a Premium Power Pro, of which there is ONE in the deck and it lasts a single turn, no way to get it out of the discard pile. Then we have the ridiculously overpowered Tyrantrum deck, the main attacker which has 330 hp with a special energy. It one shots the Landorus and can discard up to an infinite number of cards off the top of your deck with coin flips. Even with the stadium and the Premium Power Pro, each one must be three-shotted, and you get a whopping ONE enhanced hammer to deal with the special energy issue that gives Tyrantrum 330 hp.

tl;dr: they have completely phoned it in on Build and Battle Mode for multiple cycles straight, making it absolutely miserable to play. It is so unbalanced that people concede 5 times just to get rid of the uncompetitive decks and play a real match.

As title what do you think are the easiest decks to learn and climb with into master rank. Bonus points if the deck has fast games as I have limited time but want to make a push to get into master rank this season

Of course we still have to wait for the correct translation. But assuming that it isn't the same text as Dipplin, where you are only able to use an attack the pokemon has, and that Pawmot can use any attack twice. Will Pawmot be able to use the new mega rayquaza cap to energize pokemon twice?

It's a stage 2 but other alternatives for energy acceleration are Ethan's hooh (only 1 and to itself only) or magmortar (stage 1 and requires electivire)

I am trying to make a perma para deck with weavile and blaziken. Once I can get them set up its pretty dang good. The idea is that weavile guarantees para but discards energy, so you need to set weavile up every turn. Power glass and blaziken allows for that reenergize every turn for a permanent para loop.

The issue is that set up though. It doesn't have consistent draw/search engine and slowly sets up. I need one weavile, two water energy, and 2 blazikens or 1 blaze 1 powerglass. Once I get that state I can permanently stack weavile with the discarded energy without needing to rely on energy to attach to weavile for turn. How can I make this more reliable/faster set up so it can compete in today's meta?

I was debating losing the ponyta/rapidash line for a different/better draw engine like drakaloak or zoroark, but figured keeping the same energy type so rapidash could attack in a pinch is better. Chandelure would work, and also help with the stall playstyle in decking out opponent while weavile slowly attacks with paralyze, but is harder to set up. I was debating item box or grand tree for ace instead of trolley to help with getting powerglass or getting stage 2 set ups. I was also debating a chi yu for festival matchups as festival grounds makes it so they cant be paralyzed.

I was playing my Dhelmise deck, and I had Dhelmise in the Active Spot with a Legacy Energy attached to it. Then my opponent used “Slight Shift” to move the Legacy Energy to a Poltchageist on my Bench, but the Energy was automatically discarded afterward.

Can someone explain why that happened? Is there a specific rule interaction I’m missing?

Man, I love Pult. I'm currently using a fairly standard build as I'm new and I dont have the Resources to craft anything really.

Hello everyone, I'm trying to see how I can improve my Darkrai deck. No I'm not just going to scrap it all together I want to try and find something that actually makes this deck not completely shit to use because darkrai is super powerful if set up well.

Here is my decklist:

Pokémon: 10

2 Latias ex SSP 76

2 Munkidori TWM 95

1 Moltres PFL 14

1 Fezandipiti ex SFA 38

2 Mega Kangaskhan ex MEG 104

1 Chi-Yu MEG 31

2 Pecharunt ex SFA 39

2 Mega Darkrai ex PBL 48

2 Yveltal MEG 88

Trainer: 15

2 Risky Ruins MEG 127

1 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176

4 Janine's Secret Art PRE 112

1 Energy Search SVI 172

1 Hero's Cape TEF 152

3 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186

4 Mega Signal MEG 121

1 Special Red Card CRI 82

1 Poké Pad ASC 198

2 Night Stretcher ASC 196

3 Dark Bell PBL 75

4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119

4 Ultra Ball MEG 131

3 Boss's Orders MEG 114

2 Energy Switch MEG 115

Energy: 2

7 Basic {D} Energy MEE 7

2 Basic {R} Energy MEE 2

Total Cards: 60

Any help is appreciated, side note I'm kind of opposed to run toxel/toxtricity. Ive tried it before but wasn't really liking it.

Best deck oat ?! Plan mainly is to run every basic mega pokemon in the format (with 2 normal ex pokemon being meowth and latias)

What should I add to make this deck better? (Must keep all the basic mega pokemon and the 2 other ex Pokemon)

might be good for the meta to encourage not running 2-1 lines, will be better for evo decks

of course i dont actually care about the standard balance I just wanna bling the hisuian heavy ball lol

What do you think is average online of ptcgl?