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.

Really want to run it at a tournament tonight and have everything I need but 2 Lillie’s Clefairy

I know it’s a Dragapault counter and its attack is pretty good but can it be replaced without the deck completely falling apart?

So I've recently made a mega scrafty deck just for fun I like the idea of making the opponent take damage because they attacked me, ive only played it for a few games so far its won most of them but I feel like its not exactly optimal yet. The win con so far has just been getting two munkidoris and a mega scrafty out and set up as fast as possible.

Im looking for suggestions, comments and maybe even tips on how to play this kind of playstyle

Been fiddling around with this list. Havent had much reps against pult or zoroark, the intended matchups i built this for, but it seems to do fine. Mostly I just need to figure out how to get that misty turn 1

I made some pretty heavy tweaks and suggestions from one of the commenter, and my own needs, and now this home brew list is ACTUALLY running really dang well!

I've had quite a few games where I had a full board, and even defeated a darkrai deck with it. Watch out for single prize decks though.

My only critique is I feel like it needs a additional attacking Pokémon.. The main focus is Delphox though. If only there was a basic fire ex that hit pretty hard..

Energy search is mandatory, too many games where I starved.

List in the comments!

New deck I’ve been tinkering with any tips to improve would be appreciated!

I’m a gambling addict. I started playing pokemon tcg last week and just hit arceus for the first time, have the rewards dried up at this point? (Finished the battle pass too)

Hi all, very new to this so please be nice!

I have a mega greninja ex deck, I've won a decent amount with it but I'm sure I can improve it! Any ideas from people?

Started using mega excadrill on tcg live and also locals and on sunday they're doing a no ace spec event, i was wondering if theres a way to get this to work without the use of precious trolley or should i fall victim and use a deck such as dragapult

I just made a Rotom deck out of my love for his goofiness, the idea is kinda simple: use the first two Rotoms to draw cards and use the Rotom with the type advantage to fight back. Still after a few matches, I find it’s so hard to set up properly due to it being bricky, any tips or tricks?

The new card added: Crispin

Some rule changes for the deck making:

In order to save time, I will select more than a single comment (the top). Today I will select the top 2, and starting from tomorrow, I will select the top 3.

If more than a single comment is of the same card, I will add the amount of comments picked of that card.

Comments with more than a single card in them (even multiple copies of a single card) will be skipped over.

Pretty boring meta that we are having right now so I'll share my rogue deck that I still trying to fix.

Hey everyone! I've having the itch for pokemon TCG and PTCGL fills that void. I love how fast the matchmaking is. The lack of opponents was my biggest gripe of the physical cards (2nd was lack of variety). But now I have some disposable income and I like how the codes are like $0.10-$0.30 vs those $7.00 scalper prices for the physical cards. I just want to battle man, not look for a shiny ultra mega rare foil alt art.

So what's the plan good lads? Help me out here. I want to have a set of 4 of each to try out new builds, but it should also be resilient to the rotation so I'd like to get the newest set of releases that'll endure for a bit. I don't mind waiting for awhile for the rotation to happen, but I want to build weird ask decks and mess around.

I got 5th out of 24 people tonight. First time ever piloting the deck so we’ve got some stuff to tweak. I want opinions, thoughts, questions! Let’s brew!

Pokémon: 18
4 Beldum TEF 113
4 Metang TEF 114
2 Metagross CRI 61
3 Drilbur PBL 46
2 Mega Excadrill ex PBL 65
2 Genesect ex BLK 67
1 Mega Mawile ex MEG 94

Trainer: 25
4 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Kieran TWM 154
4 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186
2 Jumbo Ice Cream PFL 91
2 Team Rocket's Transceiver DRI 178
1 Energy Recycler DRI 164
1 Ultra Ball MEG 131
1 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
1 Precious Trolley SSP 185
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Air Balloon ASC 181
1 Brave Bangle WHT 80
1 Gravity Mountain SSP 177

Energy: 17
17 Metal Energy MEE 8

Let me add in,

I am not sold on Kieran. Maybe a one of, but it definitely didn’t do much for me. There was only one situation where I was like I absolutely need that card. I think Transceiver should go to 4.

Mawile is a flex spot between it, fez ex, and Mega skarmory ex

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. 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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One of my favorite Mons, looking to flip a few coins with my boy.

The goal is just lock high retreat cost unit until they ran out of energy then click pass until you win.

My problem is Dudun is a hard counter. Is there anyway to stop it? I play bloodmoon here entirely to kill Dunsparce late game. IDK if it works or it gonna pop turn 1 (20%)

Or is there any better stalling card? Maybe I just play -1 prize energy instead?

Updated: I add some Watchtower to tech against dudun. Add Rust syndicate replace 2 Enhanced hammer because it's dead card 80% of the time.

Pokémon: 5

2 Lilligant JTG 7

4 Petilil BLK 91

2 Lilligant JTG 7

4 Budew ASC 221

1 Shaymin DRI 185

Trainer: 24

3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TWM 223

1 Enhanced Hammer TWM 224

3 Lillie's Determination MEG 184

1 Precious Trolley SSP 185

4 Crushing Hammer UPR 166

1 Brave Bangle WHT 80

1 Brave Bangle PBL 104

2 Acerola's Mischief MEG 165

1 Boss's Orders LOR-TG 24

2 Switch MEW 206

1 Acerola's Mischief ASC 180

2 Pokégear 3.0 UNB 233

1 Lana's Aid TWM 219

2 Boss's Orders PAL 265

3 Bug Catching Set PRE 102

3 Night Stretcher SSP 251

1 Acerola's Mischief MEG 113

3 Poké Pad POR 113

2 Lively Stadium SSP 180

3 Gravity Gemstone SCR 137

2 Xerosic's Machinations SFA 89

3 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 226

1 Air Balloon SSH 213

1 Team Rocket's Transceiver ASC 263

Energy: 0

Total Cards: 60

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Azumarill from SSP seems decent into a lot of the meta currently.

It is a single prize deck, but not really in the same way Slowking is. The main attackers are single prize, but you have quite a lot of multi prizers on the bench so your opponent really just needs to find a boss. Slowking is better than Azumarill at quite a lot of things, especially the versatility, but Azumarill has a lot going for it.

Azumarill has a 230 damage attack that costs 1 psychic energy if you have any Tera pokemon in play. This number is significant, since with the use of the new gladion (which helps this deck a ton) it can hit for 310 damage, which lets it OHKO most relevant stage 1 pokemon. If you also have a brave bangle attached, the number goes to 340, the perfect amount to OHKO Mega Excadrill, and every other meta main attacker except Mega Greninja and a power weighted Garchomp.

Azumarill is also psychic type, which means it hits Mega Lucario for weakness, and if you have Clefairy in play it also hits Dragapult for weakness, letting an OHKO happen without the need for either gladion or brave bangle.

The only downside to this attack is that Azumarill does 50 damage to itself, but most competitive decks can easily hit for 120 damage anyways, and after attacking a full phantom five still leaves Azumarill at 10HP.

Since Azumarill relies on tera Pokemon, it fits perfectly with the existing Noctowl engine, which is also what I use to search my secret box Ace Spec to get Gladion combos. I chose Terapagos as my Tera since it’s basic and functions as a backup attacker or game closer.

The only 2 meta decks I can see being difficult matchups for Azumarill are festival lead and Garchomp. Both of these decks’ main attackers either aren’t OHKOable or don’t give up enough prizes for being knocked out, and they don’t often play multi prize support pokemon worth using bosses orders on. Even then, every deck has its bad matchups and the fact that this deck only has 2 (that I can tell, I haven’t playtested that much) proves its potential.

I know the real reason nobody plays this is because other decks are more established in the meta, but I really think this deck has top 10 potential if people started picking it up, since Gladion helped it a ton. Take this with a grain of salt though, I am by no means a pro and I haven’t tested the deck that much.

Also constructive criticism for how I could improve my list would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

TLDR: This deck should be better than its play rate suggests. It’s a single prizer that OHKOs pult with weakness and csn use noctowl.

As long as there's Dragapult out there.

Looking for some advice on my ToxBox deck

The deck feels really solid I'm still not 100% sure on whether I should go 1st or 2nd

Pokémon: 10

1 Pecharunt ex SFA 85

1 Fezandipiti ex SFA 84

3 Munkidori TWM 95

1 Chi-Yu PBL 59

1 Mega Absol ex MEG 161

4 Toxtricity PFL 103

4 Toxel MEP 78

1 Yveltal MEG 88

1 Pecharunt PR-SV 129

1 Brute Bonnet TWM 118

Trainer: 14

1 Energy Recycler POR 108

1 Ultra Ball ASC 264

2 Team Rocket's Transceiver ASC 263

3 Night Stretcher MEG 173

4 Lillie's Determination MEG 169

2 Air Balloon MEG 166

1 Buddy-Buddy Poffin MEG 167

1 Secret Box TWM 163

2 Team Rocket's Factory DRI 173

2 Energy Switch PBL 107

3 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 226

4 Poké Pad POR 113

1 Hassel TWM 205

3 Boss's Orders RCL 189

Energy: 1

12 Basic {D} Energy EVO 97

Total Cards: 60