Spoiler alert: It's totally not.
Here's some backstory of how the deck came about.
So Darkrai and his good pal Gold Breaker Bouffalant walk into a bar. The waiter, who was a Mewtwo, greeted them and said "What'll you guys have?" The Sableye in the corner just grinned and said you guys should have what I'm having. So they did and sat together at the table of awesomeness. It was such a grand time they had together that they decided to join forces and create an awesome deck.
This is a tale of that deck in action.
Note: Details are fairly sketchy because most of the matches were fairly quick and boring. Enjoy!
Round 1: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Darkrai/Landorus EX
I don't start with hardly any Energy but I manage to get slowly set up with a Sableye and Computer Search and using Juniper to draw through my deck quickly. I set up Bouffalant right away because he only needed the two Energy that I had in my hand and I start hitting Darkrais like a truck. My opponent starts way worse than me not seeing a single Supporter or Energy. I charge up a Darkrai and a Mewtwo on the Bench and he scoops soon after.
Record: 1-0
Round 2: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Empoleon/Terrakion/Dusknoir
I start Mewtwo and have DCE but I go second and he N's it away but I get Computer Search instead so I was still able to X-Ball. I opt to go super aggressive this match not even opting to Junk Hunt because he had multiple Terrakions out that I needed to deal with. I 2HKO one, Catcher a Piplup and work on the second Terrakion. He scoops very soon after.
Record: 2-0
Round 3: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Darkrai/Roserade
I start Bouffalant and a pretty crappy hand. I have to charge it up manually with three Darks but once I do, I'm 2HKOing his Darkrais. He had a super slow start that Roserade (and Devolving Roserade) couldn't even fix. By the time he got a Darkrai attacking, I had my own out and he was only able to hit it once before I took all my Prizes.
Record: 3-0
Round 4: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Rayquaza/Eelektrik
I start Sableye and I'm able to get a T2 Darkrai with an Energy Switch and a Dark Patch off of the N I played. From there I'm able to Catcher an Eel and put 30 on a Shiny Ray. Rinse and repeat and she scoops very soon after.
Record: 4-0
Round 5: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Mewtwo/Tornadus/Eelektrik
The streak of nobody taking a Prize on me was alas over this round. I had a very slow start (and went second which didn't help) and had a Darkrai and a Mewtwo Prized. I opted to use my other Mewtwo early to respond to his early Tornadus EX but that was a mistake as he just used his Mewtwo and easily rolled me with Tornadus EX and a couple Max Potions. By the time I got Darkrai out attacking, it was far too late.
Record: 4-1
Round 6: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Hammertime
After that loss I knew that if I lost this Round, it would be super sketchy if I could still make Top 8. My Resistance was fairly poor because my Round 1 opponent dropped. This ended up being the closest match of the day but ends up not so spectacularly at the end.
I have a fairly slowish start after one of my Darkrais was able to be 2HKO'd before I could charge one up myself. Once I did get one out though, I focused on spreading my Night Spears around on his three Darkrais and do the Hail Mary move which was N him down to a low number and come in with Gold Breaker Bouffalant and clean up my Prizes. This ends up being a very risky play as in the process, I use all my Catchers and he's able to set up a fourth Darkrai up as well. The field looks pretty good in my favor though. My Eviolites on Darkrai ensure that I get 3HKO'd and Mewtwo and Bouffalant were fairly fresh (or at least fresh enough to not be OHKO'd). This was very important because in the late game, he only had one more Prize to take. He ends up using Bianca for six out of a 13ish card deck fishing for his last Catcher and...he whiffs. What he could have done instead was use Sableye (and the Energy Switch he had played that turn) and Junk Hunted for Catcher+Energy Switch. I was fairly sure I had used/discarded all of mine that I had left (pretty stupid move on my part) so I wouldn't have been able to take the two Prizes that I had left. Oh well, I escaped that one fairly well and we both end up making Top Cut in the end (me as the 4th seed, him as the 7th seed). Huzzah!
Record: 5-1
Top 8: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Darkrai/Terrakion
These two games went pretty much the same way. I set up Darkrai by T3 or earlier and start chipping away with Night Spears as he can't really set up anything besides Darkrai and Sableye. I never even saw Terrakion hit the board.
Record: 6-1
Top 4: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Landorus EX/Tornadus EX/Sigilyph
So I was pretty much dreading playing this deck the whole day. I reasoned in my head that this deck is probably the closest thing there is to an autoloss when the only non-EX attacker that you run is a Gold Breaker Bouffalant that does 60 to a Sigilyph. Funnily enough, both matches turned out exactly how I predicted.
He starts Landorus EX early and spreads a lot of damage keeping up early pressure while setting up a Tornadus EX and a Sigilyph or two on the Bench. I just don't have an answer for really anything in his deck. I try to use Mewtwo early against Landorus but I get hit back and the damage would end up perfectly that Sigilyph would kill me if I attached to Mewtwo again (not to mention the fact that he uses Gold Potion and wipes out all the turns of damage I tried to deal). I set up Bouffalant but I'm quickly Catchered and hit by Landorus making it virtually ineffective. Sableye with my one-of Dark Claw couldn't even make an appearance although that didn't end up mattering too much. Compound that with multiple Eviolites on everything on his Board and a First Ticket that he played the second game (so I couldn't even go first) and you have a pretty abysmal exit.
Record: 6-2
Props:
30 CP
4 Packs (Gold Potion in one of them)
First Top Cut in ages (and first at a Cities)
Gold Breaker Bouffalant DOING WORK pretty much all day
Computer Search
Slops:
Lost to autoloss
Pretty much all crappy games (one drawn out one but I'm pretty sure my opponent could have won)
Playing on my knees Round 1
First Ticket
dmaster out.
Here's some backstory of how the deck came about.
So Darkrai and his good pal Gold Breaker Bouffalant walk into a bar. The waiter, who was a Mewtwo, greeted them and said "What'll you guys have?" The Sableye in the corner just grinned and said you guys should have what I'm having. So they did and sat together at the table of awesomeness. It was such a grand time they had together that they decided to join forces and create an awesome deck.
This is a tale of that deck in action.
Note: Details are fairly sketchy because most of the matches were fairly quick and boring. Enjoy!
Round 1: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Darkrai/Landorus EX
I don't start with hardly any Energy but I manage to get slowly set up with a Sableye and Computer Search and using Juniper to draw through my deck quickly. I set up Bouffalant right away because he only needed the two Energy that I had in my hand and I start hitting Darkrais like a truck. My opponent starts way worse than me not seeing a single Supporter or Energy. I charge up a Darkrai and a Mewtwo on the Bench and he scoops soon after.
Record: 1-0
Round 2: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Empoleon/Terrakion/Dusknoir
I start Mewtwo and have DCE but I go second and he N's it away but I get Computer Search instead so I was still able to X-Ball. I opt to go super aggressive this match not even opting to Junk Hunt because he had multiple Terrakions out that I needed to deal with. I 2HKO one, Catcher a Piplup and work on the second Terrakion. He scoops very soon after.
Record: 2-0
Round 3: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Darkrai/Roserade
I start Bouffalant and a pretty crappy hand. I have to charge it up manually with three Darks but once I do, I'm 2HKOing his Darkrais. He had a super slow start that Roserade (and Devolving Roserade) couldn't even fix. By the time he got a Darkrai attacking, I had my own out and he was only able to hit it once before I took all my Prizes.
Record: 3-0
Round 4: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Rayquaza/Eelektrik
I start Sableye and I'm able to get a T2 Darkrai with an Energy Switch and a Dark Patch off of the N I played. From there I'm able to Catcher an Eel and put 30 on a Shiny Ray. Rinse and repeat and she scoops very soon after.
Record: 4-0
Round 5: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Mewtwo/Tornadus/Eelektrik
The streak of nobody taking a Prize on me was alas over this round. I had a very slow start (and went second which didn't help) and had a Darkrai and a Mewtwo Prized. I opted to use my other Mewtwo early to respond to his early Tornadus EX but that was a mistake as he just used his Mewtwo and easily rolled me with Tornadus EX and a couple Max Potions. By the time I got Darkrai out attacking, it was far too late.
Record: 4-1
Round 6: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Hammertime
After that loss I knew that if I lost this Round, it would be super sketchy if I could still make Top 8. My Resistance was fairly poor because my Round 1 opponent dropped. This ended up being the closest match of the day but ends up not so spectacularly at the end.
I have a fairly slowish start after one of my Darkrais was able to be 2HKO'd before I could charge one up myself. Once I did get one out though, I focused on spreading my Night Spears around on his three Darkrais and do the Hail Mary move which was N him down to a low number and come in with Gold Breaker Bouffalant and clean up my Prizes. This ends up being a very risky play as in the process, I use all my Catchers and he's able to set up a fourth Darkrai up as well. The field looks pretty good in my favor though. My Eviolites on Darkrai ensure that I get 3HKO'd and Mewtwo and Bouffalant were fairly fresh (or at least fresh enough to not be OHKO'd). This was very important because in the late game, he only had one more Prize to take. He ends up using Bianca for six out of a 13ish card deck fishing for his last Catcher and...he whiffs. What he could have done instead was use Sableye (and the Energy Switch he had played that turn) and Junk Hunted for Catcher+Energy Switch. I was fairly sure I had used/discarded all of mine that I had left (pretty stupid move on my part) so I wouldn't have been able to take the two Prizes that I had left. Oh well, I escaped that one fairly well and we both end up making Top Cut in the end (me as the 4th seed, him as the 7th seed). Huzzah!
Record: 5-1
Top 8: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Darkrai/Terrakion
These two games went pretty much the same way. I set up Darkrai by T3 or earlier and start chipping away with Night Spears as he can't really set up anything besides Darkrai and Sableye. I never even saw Terrakion hit the board.
Record: 6-1
Top 4: Darkrai/Mewtwo vs Landorus EX/Tornadus EX/Sigilyph
So I was pretty much dreading playing this deck the whole day. I reasoned in my head that this deck is probably the closest thing there is to an autoloss when the only non-EX attacker that you run is a Gold Breaker Bouffalant that does 60 to a Sigilyph. Funnily enough, both matches turned out exactly how I predicted.
He starts Landorus EX early and spreads a lot of damage keeping up early pressure while setting up a Tornadus EX and a Sigilyph or two on the Bench. I just don't have an answer for really anything in his deck. I try to use Mewtwo early against Landorus but I get hit back and the damage would end up perfectly that Sigilyph would kill me if I attached to Mewtwo again (not to mention the fact that he uses Gold Potion and wipes out all the turns of damage I tried to deal). I set up Bouffalant but I'm quickly Catchered and hit by Landorus making it virtually ineffective. Sableye with my one-of Dark Claw couldn't even make an appearance although that didn't end up mattering too much. Compound that with multiple Eviolites on everything on his Board and a First Ticket that he played the second game (so I couldn't even go first) and you have a pretty abysmal exit.
Record: 6-2
Props:
30 CP
4 Packs (Gold Potion in one of them)
First Top Cut in ages (and first at a Cities)
Gold Breaker Bouffalant DOING WORK pretty much all day
Computer Search
Slops:
Lost to autoloss
Pretty much all crappy games (one drawn out one but I'm pretty sure my opponent could have won)
Playing on my knees Round 1
First Ticket
dmaster out.
Just watch out for those Sigilyph.
