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My exact thoughts. Now people can't complain that Winona isn't in most Raymin lists - we just got a better Winona in Hoopa. With an Ultra Ball you can now grab Ray and M Ray at once with an extra Shaymin for draw power, or even a double Shaymin if what's missing is just a M Ray. I'm pretty sure...

That's not the way it counters the itemlock, though. Discard a DCE from the Toad and blocks the damage from Quaking punch. Next turn, discard another DCE, tank another Quaking Punch. Repeat the process until your opponent run out of energy or is forced to attach a basic, wich leaves you with one...

With laserbank likely completely rotating out next season, this Jirachi could see a 1-of or 2-of inclusion in basically any deck just to counter Seismitoad. It doesn't deal any significant damage but the potential to break the item lock is real, the only way around being Escape Rope or Lysandre...

Decks that rely heavily on DCE, like Toads and even M Ray itself, can easily find space to run a 2-2 Raichu line. You could do that before to tech against Yvetal, but now it's going to have much more of an impact because of M Ray. MegaMan seems to be much less techeable and more of a...

First off, I really like your idea. Pairing Shiftry with Colorless M Ray might work despite the current limitations of Stage 2s in this format, since you can run through your whole deck really quickly with Shaymin EX (wich is lacking in your list but we can get to that later). My first advice...

LostGar was probably my favourite. Palkia G X, Mew Prime and Seeker just made some awesome plays possible and, albeit not being the BDIF, I could use it with a good degree of success. My troll Gyarados Star deck was so bad but so fun to play with too. I wonder how it would fare with Lysandre's...

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So I've been looking through other M Ray lists and other forums - I've reconsidered including Mega Turbo. After playtesting a little with it, it might be a good way to accelerate the second and third M Rays and might make turn 1 Emerald Breaks possible (although be warned this is very unlikely...

RE: Dragon M Rayquaza vs. Colorless M Rayquaza If we consider just Skyfield and the M Ray, then the dragon M Ray may seem better. But the colorless got a lot of support from this set. With Altaria, Megaman decks aren't as much of a threat. With Shaymin EX, it has amazing draw power. With...

RE: Now we Have Double Crisis. What is Playable From it? I actually think that Magma Groudon will be at least a Tier 2/3 archetype. With support from Camerupt, Claydol, Team Magma's Great Ball and Double Magma Energy it can be accelerated turn 2/3 and start getting KOs with any extra 20 damage...

2 extra Yvetals seem like a good option here - increases the likelyhood of starting with it and the rest can just be used for extra damage. Another suggestion is cutting on Bianca and Colress. I don't think you're getting a good bench size for a big Colress, and Bianca isn't usually the best...

RE: Dark Propagation (Weavile) Most Weavile decks I've seen so far run more than 4 Exeggcutes as discarding power - you'll probably not want to discard your Weavile lines, and 2 Yvetals don't seem enough to be a reliable alternative to hit more than 120 roughly with your attack. Laserbank +...

If we get a colorless Arceus or Arceus EX in this new set it would be neat to have an Ability that makes him able to change types, kinda like we saw with old Keckleon cards. The mechanics involved could vary from energy attachments to benched pokémon. This way, even with a mediocre attack, it...

I really don't find hard-focused bench hitting decks to be as much of a problem. During playtesting, to achieve one hit knock-outs you would not need do bench more than 2 exeggcutes most of the times, and if you find yourself struggling against a certain archetype there is always the option to...

I've already playtested most of those ideas. In my previous post I already stated that, playtesting with Mega Turbo, I couldn't pull first turn Emerald Breaks as consistently as desirable - not even once in about 20 games. Also, the whole purpose of this build is to get Exeggcutes on the discard...

There are still Safeguarders out there. There is need for a non-EX attacker, we just need to figure out which one. Grass ones are the most useful ones in this case because of their good ability to also fare well against Toads; in the case they are knocked out, it's just one prize card that won't...

This is Rayeggs, a list I made based off the new colection Emerald Break (EB). I playtested it with proxies and crudly refined it in the past few days - it is surely subject to changes as this set releases and we get a good hang of how it behaves on the metagame. Pokemon: 20 3 [C] Rayquaza EX...

The difference between a OHKO and 2HKO is monumental in the current metagame. While you may see a huge difference between 20 HP left and 60 HP left, in reality both are roughly the same - this deck will not deal less than 60 damage in almost any circumstance where it's dealing damage. You're not...

Exeggutor is a really good option now that you presented it. Of course it relies on a flip, but it also brings in the option to Blockade on tricky situations, and with 90 damage on a heads it OHKO both Seismitoad and the Safeguarders. I'll have to do some testing when the set comes out...

I am skeptical about the real competitiveness of Mega Turbo. During my playtests with a M Rayquaza deck, even with 3 compressors and 3 turbos I couldn't pull them off enough times for them to be worth taking 3 spots, and not once I could do a turn-1 Emerald Break with them (the amount of...