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Switch, Olympia, Escape Rope, Solgaleo-GX, Pokémon Center Lady, Magearna-EX, Zoroark BKT, Chaos Tower, Silent Lab, Hex Maniac, Garbodor BKP and sheer luck. That's why this simply cannot be competitive. However you can use it as a fun deck, on PTCGO, to grind the ladder with.

Since we lose one block per rotation (BW-NVI, NXD-DRX, BCR-LTR, XY-PHF), I think that Primal Clash, Roaring Skies and Ancient Origins will be the sets that rotate at the start of September.

I am currently planning to build a Lurantis-GX/Golbat deck and try it out. I feel that it could be good to play in a Water-heavy meta. I also probably will add Choice Band once they become Standard legal. If the Golbat variant fails I will simply go for the Garbodor variant, or for an...

I never built one of these but I sure can tell what a Decidueye/Vileplume list about looks like. In this list cards have been added to not include Shaymin-EX. Pokémon - 20 3 Oddish AOR 2 Gloom AOR 2 Vileplume AOR 4 Rowlet SM 4 Dartrix SM 3 Decidueye-GX SM 2 Tauros-GX SM Trainer - 32 4 Forest...

Forest of Giant Plants has no room. Rough Seas are rough. Scorched Earth is burning. Faded Town is harmful. Fairy Garden is... Home now.

Wobbuffet typically does not affect the Brilliant Arrow Mega Gardevoir's setup that much. Hoopa is still usable and thus it still is easy to get two Gardevoir-EX and a Xerneas in play in time for the first Geomancy. However, if you are talking of the Despair Ray variant, this becomes very true...

Passimian and Vespiquen I think are not that scary of matchups. Passimian does not see much play because it has a harsh autoloss to Yveltal/Garbodor decks. But were I to face it, I would put on early pressure with Despair Ray and make sure my Energy count stays at 4 or more for Brilliant...

So I decided to actually try out Brilliant Arrow at a tournament again, after months of playing Despair Ray. I have made the list pretty quickly and finished third with it, with my biggest win being against Solgaleo/Lurantis (despite looking like my autoloss) and my loss being the final round...

I remember when this was a thing about two years ago. It was with Muscle Band, Silver Bangle, Korrina, Focus Sash, Fighting Stadium and Hawlucha FFI being in the format though. It was very powerful in that it could take Knock Outs on Pokémon-EX pretty quickly but it lost consistency and damage...

Brilliant Arrow is a force not to be reckoned with.

I am no expert on the subject but I will attempt to create a more standardized version of what you are attempting to build: Pokémon - 18 2 Mewtwo EX BKT 1 Mewtwo EX EVO 3 M Mewtwo EX BKT (Y version) 2 Trubbish BKP 2 Garbodor BKP 3 Cosmog SM 1 Cosmoem SM 3 Solgaleo-GX SM 1 Shaymin-EX ROS...

True. Any spread damage tends to kill Gyarados. A Mr Mime tech can help counter this though, as long as the spread damage is not damage counters but just damage.

These are two less in the unused Mega Evolutions list for the Pokémon TCG. Although we will still be missing: Mega Pinsir, Mega Banette, Mega Abomasnow, Mega Latias, Mega Lopunny and Mega Medicham. I still feel like plans were made for a Mega Pinsir-EX (as well as a Pinsir-EX) to be released in...

It does look like a fair matchup, as they both start with one Prize Pokémon, and Volcanion needs two hits (generally) to Knock Out Xerneas, then M Gardevoir and Volcanion-EX will two-shot each other most of the time but can arrive at a point of one-shots. Flareon-EX and the Despair Ray Mega...

If you are going to make a hybrid variant, I would strongly recommend you include two copies of one of the Mega Gardevoir and just one of the other, to then have your strategy based around the one you run two of mainly. I know by experience that they actually can work together, but not really in...

Yes indeed, you have to be extremely careful. A 2-2 split in my experience will not work well. You have to run 2 Brilliant Arrow and 1 Despair Ray or 1 Brilliant Arrow and 2 Despair Ray if you are going to make a hybrid variant. By the way, I modified my deck slightly since I posted it. I...

For those who do not quite get the strategy behind the deck, it is taking on almost any Pokémon with two-hit Knock Outs throughout most of the game with Despair Ray that also discards setup Pokémon, after having spent a turn or two using Geomancy, when the matchup says Brilliant Arrow should be...

I saw a video about a M Rayquaza Dragon/Dragonair deck, and realized, after comparing it to the Reshiram build, that Dragonair is probably nowhere near Xerneas in terms of utility and Energy acceleration in Mega Gardevoir, and it is without even considering Xerneas BREAK. The problem I find...

I would add in at least three Xerneas XY. Even with Max Elixir it is very tough to get Brilliant Arrow to one-hit numbers (180-240 damage). Geomancy is the primary way to accelerate Energy, as it gives two from the deck every turn it is used. I would include 10-11 Energy, put 1 or 2 Mega Turbo...

A problem is that it usually gets outsped and that a single Geomancy is not enough, therefore Despair Ray starts pressuring Brilliant Arrow and it is hard to build into a one-hit Knock Out. Otherwise though, if Despair Ray draws bad, the Brilliant Arrow version has odds on its side, but the...