Experience: Veteran
Pokemon
Trainers
Energy
Strategy
Start with usually Virizion Ex or Darkrai Ex, though Yveltal is great both early and late game. Priority number one is getting a Lileep in play. Use Twist Mountain first if possible to save time. It allows each player to flip a coin and bench a Restored Pokemon from your hand if you land heads, but if that doesn't work, then you need to either get Lileep in your discard pile with an Ultra Ball, Dowsing Machine, Hugh or Professor Juniper. Lileep's Prehistoric Call allows player to place Lileep from discard pile in the bottom of your deck. Then you can use a Root Fossil item card to get Lileep onto your bench. Root Fossil searches the bottom seven cards of your deck and benches one Lileep if found. The other way to get Lileep into play is to use Caitlin, which allows you to shuffle cards from your hand to the bottom of your deck and then draw. You can risk it and play Root Fossil without ensuring Lileep is at the bottom of your deck first. It's a gamble that can be rewarding or a big mistake. Once Lileep is out, evolve Lileep into Cradily, quickly with an Evosoda if you have it, and attack with Lifesplosion, which allows player to bench as many Stage 2 pokemon from you deck as there are grass energy attached to Cradily. The goal is to get Virizion Ex, Darkrai Ex, Magnezone, Serperior (preferably both) and Hydreigon all into play. Once that happens, your pokemon have immunity to status changes due to Verdant Wind and they have no retreat cost due to Dark Cloak They are healed hopefully twenty damage between each turn by Serperior's Royal Heal), and they can also transfer dark energy back and forth due to Hydreigon. If that's not enough of an advantage, Magnezone's Dual Brains allows player to use two support cards per turn, which is why there are so many support cards in this deck. After that it's pretty easy. Switch back and forth between pokemon pretty easily since they can't get paralyzed or fall asleep. Darkrai Ex is probably number one hitter, but Hydreigon can be useful aside from his ability with his attack damage of 140. Serperior's attack only cost two energy, one of them can be any type and on top of doing damage, you can switch your grass energy attached to your pokemon any way you like. There are a lot of options in this deck, and it's easy to make the wrong choice so it's important to think things through and remember what cards you still have in you deck. Super Rod provides a great deal of peace of mind with this deck, since you will find yourself discarding cards you will need later like the Stage 2's. With the Royal Heals playing Rainbow energy won't damage your pokemon for longer then the turn they are played, and with the help of Hard Charms, Serprior's ability also allows Cradily to stall after he's done filling your bench. You might not need to stall at all though, and you can use Virzion Ex to energize your benched pokemon and do a little damage too with its low cost attack. Team Plasma Jolteon is a bit of a pest for this deck early game, and for some reason this deck seems to find itself against TP Jolteon more than any other deck I play. Yveltal goes down quicker, and Jolteon's second attack makes him immune to opponent's defending Ex Pokemon. Shadow Circle can be nice early game for this reason, but I prefer Twist Mountain first to get Lileep out quicker. Muscle Band is a must if you want Darkrai Ex to OHKO 2 or 3 pokemon in a row. I didn't go with any potions, though it is tempting to throw some Max Potions into the mix with all that energy moving around, but Royal Heal can bring you back after a few turns, and sometimes you need one of your pokemon knocked out to make room for another. I've also thought about switching Yveltal out for Sableye so I can Junk Hunt discarded items, but Oblivion Wing with Muscle Band is a pretty effective combo and there isn't room for Crushing Hammer and Hypnotoxic Laser which make Junk Hunt particularly nasty. I could just pull Yveltal for another trainer like Max Potion, but that takes me back to Royal Heal and then I start going in circles and my run-on sentences become even more runny. One more option I passed on was using only 1 Darkrai Ex, losing Yveltal and going with Yveltal Ex and Spiritomb for Sealing Scream and Hexed Mirror. I would need to lose Dowsing Machine, but DM hasn't proven itself vital to this deck by any means so far. I've played this deck quite a bit and it wins frequently, though I have drawn out of cards more than once, which is why I'm using 2 Hughs and 2 Professor Junipers instead 4 Professor Junipers. Please give me any advice you might have.
Edited to coincide with the rules!
... But that wall of text, though. o_o ~Kecleon
Pokemon
- 2 Virizion Ex (Verdant Wind)
- 2 Darkrai Ex (Dark Cloak)
- 1 Yveltal (Oblivion Wing)
- 3 Lileep (Prehistoric Call)
- 2 Cradily (Lifesplosion)
- 2 Serperior (Royal Heal)
- 1 Magnezone (Dual Brains)
- 1 Hydreigon (Dark Trance)
Trainers
- 3 Root Fossil Lileep
- 3 Ultra Ball
- 1 Dowsing Machine
- 1 Evosoda
- 3 Super Rod
- 1 Town Map
- 3 Caitlin
- 1 Elesa
- 2 Hugh
- 2 Professor Juniper
- 2 Shauna
- 2 Skyla
- 1 Shadow Circle
- 2 Twist Mountain
- 2 Hard Charm
- 3 Muscle Band
Energy
- 3 Grass
- 3 Dark
- 4 Blend
- 4 Rainbow
Strategy
Start with usually Virizion Ex or Darkrai Ex, though Yveltal is great both early and late game. Priority number one is getting a Lileep in play. Use Twist Mountain first if possible to save time. It allows each player to flip a coin and bench a Restored Pokemon from your hand if you land heads, but if that doesn't work, then you need to either get Lileep in your discard pile with an Ultra Ball, Dowsing Machine, Hugh or Professor Juniper. Lileep's Prehistoric Call allows player to place Lileep from discard pile in the bottom of your deck. Then you can use a Root Fossil item card to get Lileep onto your bench. Root Fossil searches the bottom seven cards of your deck and benches one Lileep if found. The other way to get Lileep into play is to use Caitlin, which allows you to shuffle cards from your hand to the bottom of your deck and then draw. You can risk it and play Root Fossil without ensuring Lileep is at the bottom of your deck first. It's a gamble that can be rewarding or a big mistake. Once Lileep is out, evolve Lileep into Cradily, quickly with an Evosoda if you have it, and attack with Lifesplosion, which allows player to bench as many Stage 2 pokemon from you deck as there are grass energy attached to Cradily. The goal is to get Virizion Ex, Darkrai Ex, Magnezone, Serperior (preferably both) and Hydreigon all into play. Once that happens, your pokemon have immunity to status changes due to Verdant Wind and they have no retreat cost due to Dark Cloak They are healed hopefully twenty damage between each turn by Serperior's Royal Heal), and they can also transfer dark energy back and forth due to Hydreigon. If that's not enough of an advantage, Magnezone's Dual Brains allows player to use two support cards per turn, which is why there are so many support cards in this deck. After that it's pretty easy. Switch back and forth between pokemon pretty easily since they can't get paralyzed or fall asleep. Darkrai Ex is probably number one hitter, but Hydreigon can be useful aside from his ability with his attack damage of 140. Serperior's attack only cost two energy, one of them can be any type and on top of doing damage, you can switch your grass energy attached to your pokemon any way you like. There are a lot of options in this deck, and it's easy to make the wrong choice so it's important to think things through and remember what cards you still have in you deck. Super Rod provides a great deal of peace of mind with this deck, since you will find yourself discarding cards you will need later like the Stage 2's. With the Royal Heals playing Rainbow energy won't damage your pokemon for longer then the turn they are played, and with the help of Hard Charms, Serprior's ability also allows Cradily to stall after he's done filling your bench. You might not need to stall at all though, and you can use Virzion Ex to energize your benched pokemon and do a little damage too with its low cost attack. Team Plasma Jolteon is a bit of a pest for this deck early game, and for some reason this deck seems to find itself against TP Jolteon more than any other deck I play. Yveltal goes down quicker, and Jolteon's second attack makes him immune to opponent's defending Ex Pokemon. Shadow Circle can be nice early game for this reason, but I prefer Twist Mountain first to get Lileep out quicker. Muscle Band is a must if you want Darkrai Ex to OHKO 2 or 3 pokemon in a row. I didn't go with any potions, though it is tempting to throw some Max Potions into the mix with all that energy moving around, but Royal Heal can bring you back after a few turns, and sometimes you need one of your pokemon knocked out to make room for another. I've also thought about switching Yveltal out for Sableye so I can Junk Hunt discarded items, but Oblivion Wing with Muscle Band is a pretty effective combo and there isn't room for Crushing Hammer and Hypnotoxic Laser which make Junk Hunt particularly nasty. I could just pull Yveltal for another trainer like Max Potion, but that takes me back to Royal Heal and then I start going in circles and my run-on sentences become even more runny. One more option I passed on was using only 1 Darkrai Ex, losing Yveltal and going with Yveltal Ex and Spiritomb for Sealing Scream and Hexed Mirror. I would need to lose Dowsing Machine, but DM hasn't proven itself vital to this deck by any means so far. I've played this deck quite a bit and it wins frequently, though I have drawn out of cards more than once, which is why I'm using 2 Hughs and 2 Professor Junipers instead 4 Professor Junipers. Please give me any advice you might have.
Edited to coincide with the rules!
... But that wall of text, though. o_o ~Kecleon