I'm creating a malamar giratina/garchomp ttgx deck and I can't afford to drop so much on jirachi or dedenne gx. Any suggestions on working around that?
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Float stone is something you usually don't use in this deck if you need someone out of the active you hard retreat and pull the energy back with the ability. I feel that magearna is awesome, but in this case you are probably going to not have a lot of metal energy on your pokemon.
Shaymin EX got to almost double the price you listed. There was also a time when on tcgplayer the basic art was more expensive than the full art. The highest I have seen the full art Shaymins were $153. I really doubt that Tapu Lele will do that, and I think it will drop in price after worlds is...
The issue is that it is hard to playtest online and IRL prior to rotation. I have a Volcanion deck without Tapu Lele with over 75% win rate I have a Tapu Koko with over a 70% win rate, but I am playing against decks that are using cards still in standard while I am playing decks for after...
I don't run sycamore anymore now that vs seeker is going away. I run less items due to the trash pile. Tapu lele is great turn one and when in a bind just like shaymin, but isnt needed. The entire new meta is about playing smarter building decks that arent going to require a bunch of stuff to...
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is great you can play the original decks sometimes they are a little late on new set releases, but great to test things out or play a deck from when pokemon originally came out.