Discussion So Expanded is a thing - What's your play?
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There's going to be a lot of Grass. With Virizion and Genesect back in the format, grass will be really powerful. Sceptile/Genesect, Vespiquen, and Exeggutor/Vileplume will probably all do well.
Then again, with all the grass, some Fire decks could see play. The ones that come to mind are Magcargo Ancient Trait, Camerupt EX/Camerupt Double Crisis, and Charizard Combustion Blast.
My play is probably Magcargo/Bats because it takes down grass types, is a non-EX, and can deal with other EXs with Bats. But it loses to mega decks that aren't grass weak.
For the megas, I don't know what to think about T-Tar. It gets Darkrai and Dark Patch in Expanded, but is that enough? It dosen't really need Dark Patch since Mega Turbo exists. Rayquaza might see some play because of it's speed that can hold up against the Grass decks, but it dosen't really gain anything from Expanded that I can think of. I like Manectric, but Sceptile is better for energy acceleration since it also heals and with Superior Energy Retrieval in Expanded, Manectric is outclassed.
Then again, with all the grass, some Fire decks could see play. The ones that come to mind are Magcargo Ancient Trait, Camerupt EX/Camerupt Double Crisis, and Charizard Combustion Blast.
My play is probably Magcargo/Bats because it takes down grass types, is a non-EX, and can deal with other EXs with Bats. But it loses to mega decks that aren't grass weak.
For the megas, I don't know what to think about T-Tar. It gets Darkrai and Dark Patch in Expanded, but is that enough? It dosen't really need Dark Patch since Mega Turbo exists. Rayquaza might see some play because of it's speed that can hold up against the Grass decks, but it dosen't really gain anything from Expanded that I can think of. I like Manectric, but Sceptile is better for energy acceleration since it also heals and with Superior Energy Retrieval in Expanded, Manectric is outclassed.
Exeggcutor/Vileplume. Turn 1 Item and Supporter lock is just ridiculous. Whoever attacks first wins.
I'll probably play Accelgor/Wobbuffet/Trevenant/Mew because a turn 1 Accelgor is just broken.
Eggs/Vileplume/Ninetales-- complete Trainer lock (ha Hex Maniac don't work no more)
Virizion/Genesect
Mega Manectric/Garbodor
Durant
Anything with Safeguard, N, Computer Search and other Ace Specs
Also... STANDARD DECKS
Virizion/Genesect
Mega Manectric/Garbodor
Durant
Anything with Safeguard, N, Computer Search and other Ace Specs
Also... STANDARD DECKS
If it works well in testing, Pyroar/Archeops. You have basically no way to be damaged, and if you tech in Keldeo then Laserbank can't damage you.
I'm thinking of a deck weavile/lopunny/eggecute its really fun to play, and or I might run metal rayquaza. Right now i'm running rayquaza/shaymin I was thinking of switching but since keldo was rotation (without expanded) I was going to stick to Rayquaza/Shaymin but hey who knows.
Put some ariados and virbank city gym and you got the damage problem solved.
Vracken
Just a Ghost of the Past
I used to run the Weavile, Exeggcute, Lopunny deck when it was standard legal, it really struggles against mega Pokemon though. It is most certainly the most fun I have had with a deck
I am trying to build Pyroar/Archeops, it is slow but once Anciet Origins drops, I think I have a solid decklist for it, although I will want to test with it first
I'll let you think about that for a minute...
If you're implying Virbank is rotating, we're talking Expanded here.
Also, Ariados's ability doesn't affect Grass types. If you're attacking with Exeggutor, you're not poisoning yourself.
Slapping copies of Super Rod back into my deck and irritating everyone locally who was looking forward to my deck rotating out.
I have seen two different "ban lists" now.
They're all lies. Unless it's on Pokemon.com or confirmed by a TO there is no ban list
Eels with MRay Dragon and Memory Shrine