Pokemon: 17
Strategy:
This was originally made for the pure fun of it but I ended up quite liking the way it worked. More often than not it can halve the deck on turn 1 and get most of what it needs, ShayminEX+Excadrill with a muscle band does 170 damage (or 190 if the shaymin has a band too), so it doesn't match up badly against EXs, and AegislashEX can wall pretty well until you SSU it to switch in Excadrill. The deck mainly starts the game by spamming as many sift cards as it can, perhaps battle compressoring a basic or two to get them back out with revive.
The reason I chose muscle band over silver bangle is because bangle cannot be attached to ShayminEX, and it doesn't grant me any extra KOs against anything but megas which aren't common in my area. Plus, I need something to hurt Flareon since I get destroyed otherwise (Muscle band lets me KO Empoleon without training center and Flareon/Leafeon with training center).
Skyfield is there because with ShayminEXs, Excadrills, and a couple cautious Leafeons the bench fills up way too quickly, and steel shelter isn't needed other than to protect Excadrill/AegislashEX from lasers which they don't fear all too much anyway.
I also chose Colress as a playset instead of Sycamore because the bench is full pretty much constantly, so colress offers more draw nine times out of ten.
Skyla is for muscle band, scoop ups are for shaymins and aegislashes, and leafeons are cheap to use and get seismitoad down.
The deck suffers an Yveltal weakness, as well as a very slight disadvantage against SeismitoadEX, but it has a good matchup against fairies, exeggcutor, bats, other metal decks, and an even matchup against flareon.
I'd love some feedback as this WILL be my deck I'll be using for tournaments after regionals, and any suggestions are welcome (so long as they keep the deck similar enough to the current core idea).
4 Excadrill (PRC-97)
4 Drilbur (PRC-89)
4 Shaymin EX (ROS-77)
2 Leafeon (PLF-11)
1 Eevee (LC-RC14)
1 Eevee (FFI-80)
1 Aegislash EX
2 Skyfield
1 Steel Shelter
4 Colress
4 Wally
2 Professor Sycamore
2 Skyla
1 Lysandre's Trump Card
3 Muscle Band
1 Scoop Up Cyclone
4 Ultra Ball
3 VS Seeker
2 Super Scoop Up
2 Revive
1 Battle Compressor
4 Double Colourless Energy
7 Metal Energy (Shut up, it's steel)
1 Grass Energy
Strategy:
This was originally made for the pure fun of it but I ended up quite liking the way it worked. More often than not it can halve the deck on turn 1 and get most of what it needs, ShayminEX+Excadrill with a muscle band does 170 damage (or 190 if the shaymin has a band too), so it doesn't match up badly against EXs, and AegislashEX can wall pretty well until you SSU it to switch in Excadrill. The deck mainly starts the game by spamming as many sift cards as it can, perhaps battle compressoring a basic or two to get them back out with revive.
The reason I chose muscle band over silver bangle is because bangle cannot be attached to ShayminEX, and it doesn't grant me any extra KOs against anything but megas which aren't common in my area. Plus, I need something to hurt Flareon since I get destroyed otherwise (Muscle band lets me KO Empoleon without training center and Flareon/Leafeon with training center).
Skyfield is there because with ShayminEXs, Excadrills, and a couple cautious Leafeons the bench fills up way too quickly, and steel shelter isn't needed other than to protect Excadrill/AegislashEX from lasers which they don't fear all too much anyway.
I also chose Colress as a playset instead of Sycamore because the bench is full pretty much constantly, so colress offers more draw nine times out of ten.
Skyla is for muscle band, scoop ups are for shaymins and aegislashes, and leafeons are cheap to use and get seismitoad down.
The deck suffers an Yveltal weakness, as well as a very slight disadvantage against SeismitoadEX, but it has a good matchup against fairies, exeggcutor, bats, other metal decks, and an even matchup against flareon.
I'd love some feedback as this WILL be my deck I'll be using for tournaments after regionals, and any suggestions are welcome (so long as they keep the deck similar enough to the current core idea).