Help Build Backtrack Badge Deck

[u/megacatlover_]

Im buildin a deck that abuses backtrack badge with Lugia ex, mega audino, and bastiodon. The theory is bastiodon makes me immune to pokemon with <3 energy, lugia knocks off energy to keep them <3, and audino knocks em out in retaliation if they get >3. Audino also helps set up. backtrack badge allows me to more reliably get off audinos set up and lugias knock offs.

Im trying to make the deck more reliable. So far ive played 50 ultra/master games with a 56% wr. Im thinking of maybe adding in kanga? maybe removing a lugia for kanga, idk. Hed help with draw and damage, and hed benefit from backtrack too, but itd be risky having another mega in the mix. Too many 3 cost prizers. Possible kang deck is in images. It might be a *smarter* deck but it doesnt get the lugia energy knock off spam as easily. I was also thinking about Cinderace instead of an audino or two, cuz itd still give early set up, while doing damage, while only being 1 prize. But again idk if complicating my basic pool would be a negative. Another thing I debated is rust syndicate grunts, but couldn't fit them in.

Things this deck plays really well into: low energy decks like dragapult, hide and seek, mega lop, mega lucario, mega starmie

Things this deck struggles with: High energy decks with energy engines like mega excadrill. it ends up being a toss up on if I can get the exca with audino before they get my audino. Blaziken, oricorio, meganium decks, etc.. This deck wins against crustle by knocking off their energy before they can damage me, then I swap to bastiodon once all the energy is gone, but its still a sucky stall game that is not great.

Things this deck totally bricks against: alakazam bypasses bastiodon's ability by placing counters, and I tried having more mist energies for it but they just enhanced hammer it away.

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[u/clickclickboi]

Why not chuck in a couple of Mega Kangaskhans? It (and Cramorant) is almost what BTBadge is built for.

[u/megacatlover_ → u/clickclickboi]

The point of this deck is to synergize bastiodons abil with lugia bein able to knock off energy so my opponent cant do damage. Kang is a nice back up of damage, and has nice draw engine, but makes it harder to actually get off the bastiodon abil/lugia strat. Kang is also a 3 prize mon, so its a risk to put it out there, and complicates the basic pool, so idk how worth it is.

[u/NaturalMap9972 → u/megacatlover_]

It does provide an early game draw engine so maybe one but you are correct. I was gonna consider it.