Can Marnie’s Grimmsnarl ex Stop the Best Decks and Win Worlds?

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Hello, PokeBeach readers! Gabriel Semedo here again with another Pokemon TCG article. This time, I want to talk about Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex and how this deck has a solid chance of beating the two best decks in the format — Dragapult ex and Gardevoir ex— giving it a real shot at reaching the top tables of the most important Pokemon TCG tournament, the World Championships at Anaheim happening in August.


I usually come up with the article title after finishing the content, but this time I already knew what it would be. Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex's favorable matchups against Gardevoir ex and Dragapult ex are just too good. Another reason I felt compelled to write about...
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For literally any deck under tier 1 this is the must suffocating thing to play against in the entire game, possibly in the same realm as ADP. It's not because Grimmsnarl is a good card, it's the fact the Marnie's archetype as a whole is completely self sufficient and happens to mesh perfectly with the worst kind of control in recent memory, with zero playable healing cards on top of that. Just instead of playing hand disruption and item lock ad nauseum, you just spread an overwhelming amount of damage. Dragapult got so sick of Grimmsnarl's shit that it's playing Dusclops and Dusknoir again just to put the Froslass down. I hate those cards as well but I don't blame Pult for resorting to it and they at least have a cost to them.

I would not be surprised if this wins worlds and/or has a massive majority of play and prompts TPCi to panic and keep printing more cards to attempt to curb Munkidori and Froslass instead of actually tackling the real problem these cards introduced.
 
Steen said:
prompts TPCi to panic and keep printing more cards to attempt to curb Munkidori and Froslass instead of actually tackling the real problem these cards introduced.
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Considering that they decided to keep buffing Gardevoir with the two upcoming sets, they're not doing squat to nerf an inferior deck like Grimmsnarl.
 
excelsium2 said:
Considering that they decided to keep buffing Gardevoir with the two upcoming sets, they're not doing squat to nerf an inferior deck like Grimmsnarl.
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Thing is I don't really have a problem with Gardevoir atm, it's extremely strong but it has quite a few neutral matchups. It and Dragapult don't punch down so hard like Grimmsnarl does to the point of bullying the rest of its competition. It just is not fun to play against as most other decks.

The best TPCi can do is flood the game with healing effects that can prevent the damage spread, and we just got Fennel who heals 40 for all your Pokemon. This deck isn't the result of a careful calculation, it's the result of making one extremely self sufficient card with no compromises that happens to mesh perfectly with the monster of damage spread we see now, at a time where healing items are too niche and scarce for us to deal with it.
 
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