After leaving Yu-Gi-Oh a while ago, I really felt like coming over to the PTCG; it seemed so much more fun and balanced. I quickly developed a liking for Plasma and how much synergy the cards in the deck have. I also knew that Pyroar is a serious threat for the deck, and wanted to make my first deck one capable of dealing with it a bit easier, along with other threats in the likely upcoming PLS-On format. Here it is:
Pokemon: 16
Strategy:
Garbodor may seem strange in this deck, but since the only card with an ability is Deoxys, it is much easier to pull off. With Garbotoxin up, Helix Force easily OHKOs Pyroar, but it also hits Mewtwo Ex and Charizard Ex, the deck's usual partners very heavily. Helix Force in general just hits anything that wants to build up lots of energy (Lugia, Keldeo, Rain Dance decks, etc.) quite hard, and will work well against upcoming Rising Fist decks, hitting them for weakness.
The rest of the Pokemon are for coverage: Thundurus hits the aforementioned Lugia for weakness, as well as Yveltal while accelerating energy. Flareon helps immensely against Virizion/Genesect and cleans up whatever Deoxys left behind.
Garbodor has some strategy to it: against Pyroar and opposing Plasma, you want to get Garbotoxin working as quickly as possble, using all tools necessary. However, against Yveltal and VirGen, you can ignore it in order to power up Thundurus and Flareon with Power Connect to deal as much damage as possible. Garbotoxin also obviously helps in the Aromatisse and Rain Dance matchups, but whether Rain Dance remains viable with the possible rotation of Level Ball, Heavy Ball and Tropical Beach is in question.
There it is. Making space for things was rather difficult, 6 tools may not be enough but given that Garbodor isn't needed in every matchup I assumed that it would hopefully suffice. Other weird things were having 2 DCE instead of 3, but I had no idea what to take out to make it work, so I assumed I would simply use a Colress Machine and a manual attach to get it going in case I need to go through 3 Flareon.
Anyways, I would appreciate any suggestions or criticism you have. Thanks for reading.
Pokemon: 16
4 Deoxys-EX
2 Thundurus-EX
3 Eevee PLF
3 Flareon PLF
2 Trubbish LTR
2 Garbodor LTR
3 N
3 Professor Juniper
2 Colress
1 Lysandre
4 Team Plasma Ball
4 Colress Machine
3 Muscle Band
3 Float Stone
2 Switch
1 Dowsing Machine
1 Pal Pad
1 Startling Megaphone
2 Frozen City
4 Psychic
4 Rainbow
4 Plasma
2 Double Colorless
Strategy:
Garbodor may seem strange in this deck, but since the only card with an ability is Deoxys, it is much easier to pull off. With Garbotoxin up, Helix Force easily OHKOs Pyroar, but it also hits Mewtwo Ex and Charizard Ex, the deck's usual partners very heavily. Helix Force in general just hits anything that wants to build up lots of energy (Lugia, Keldeo, Rain Dance decks, etc.) quite hard, and will work well against upcoming Rising Fist decks, hitting them for weakness.
The rest of the Pokemon are for coverage: Thundurus hits the aforementioned Lugia for weakness, as well as Yveltal while accelerating energy. Flareon helps immensely against Virizion/Genesect and cleans up whatever Deoxys left behind.
Garbodor has some strategy to it: against Pyroar and opposing Plasma, you want to get Garbotoxin working as quickly as possble, using all tools necessary. However, against Yveltal and VirGen, you can ignore it in order to power up Thundurus and Flareon with Power Connect to deal as much damage as possible. Garbotoxin also obviously helps in the Aromatisse and Rain Dance matchups, but whether Rain Dance remains viable with the possible rotation of Level Ball, Heavy Ball and Tropical Beach is in question.
There it is. Making space for things was rather difficult, 6 tools may not be enough but given that Garbodor isn't needed in every matchup I assumed that it would hopefully suffice. Other weird things were having 2 DCE instead of 3, but I had no idea what to take out to make it work, so I assumed I would simply use a Colress Machine and a manual attach to get it going in case I need to go through 3 Flareon.
Anyways, I would appreciate any suggestions or criticism you have. Thanks for reading.
