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Hello! Quick question: does placing one damage counter on an opposing Pokemon, as Celebi's Sparkle Motion attack does, count as attack damage for the purpose of triggering Beedrill PCL's Allergic Shock? The cards in question: and Thanks in advance!

Yeah, no. There's a bunch of problems with that list, unfortunately. -You have nowhere near enough draw power; getting stuck with a bad hand early-game will kill you unless you've got a lot more than that (standard is 3-4 Sycamore and 2-4 Birch/Shauna, plus a Shaymin-EX or two if you've got...

Well, in terms of power compared to regular Pokemon, the EX cards are a straight upgrade in most cases (even the mediocre EX mons are a little easier to set up and do damage with than non-EX ones, on average). There are comparatively few non-EX attackers that really work well in a fast format...

Not really. Not only do the theme decks (from any set, not just this pair) lack a huge number of the staples of any halfway competitive decklist (both in terms of Pokemon and Trainers), but there's often no effort at all to promote synergy between Pokemon in them, and most of the mons that are...

I run a Sceptile/Giratina deck as well, actually, with one Hydreigon-EX in there to mitigate retreat costs so I don't have to drop DDEs if my Switches aren't in hand. The current Energy spread in my deck is 8 Grass, 4 DDE, and 1 DCE. It's subject to change, but it's served me pretty well so far...

Jagged Saber actually runs off [G][C], not [G][G], so better to use the basic energies. Energy Retrieval is still important enough to be worth having in the deck in case you don't have access to any more [G] through normal drawing, so if Energy Switch is going in there, it should replace one of...

The issue with Blastoise is that, as I said, Keldeo just straight-up does the job of being that deck's primary attacker better due to Rush In and takes up 1/3 of the deck space per attacker, so there is never a reason to use M-Gyarados over that in an Archie deck - one might show up in there as...

120 damage is not really that strong at all, actually. We're in a very OHKO-centric format right now, meaning 120 damage really isn't what it used to be, and an attack cost of 4 really hurts (remember, this is the primary reason why the theoretically super-threatening M Tyranitar-EX never got...

Deep Woods gets my vote as well.

I'm working on a set of my own right now, and I'm finding that I worry so much about making my cards OP that even the cards I intend to be the best in the set tend to go the opposite direction and become kinda underwhelming, to the point where most of them would have no real presence if added to...

On the subject of random requests, could I see a Grass-type Galvantula-EX? Thanks in advance!

Justice is pretty underrated, to be sure. Somewhere between a third and half of my favorite Metallica songs come off that album. My personal favorite (and one of my top ten favorite songs of all time, actually) is "Blackened", but "To Live Is To Die" is definitely extremely solid as well. If...

The first thing that I notice is that you're running a LOT of hand-exchange cards; probably more than would realistically be useful. I'd suggest getting rid of two of the Shaunas and replacing them with some combination of Escape Rope, another Lysandre, and Enhanced Hammer. Also, since all your...

Broken Vine-Space (er, Forest of Giant Plants) has the most overall utility of these four by a significant margin. Rare Candy is mostly useless because the only Stage 2 cards that really see a significant amount of play are Crobat PHF, Vileplume AOR, and Blastoise, all of which want to get out...

My favorite band is Mischief Brew, a lovely anarchist folk-punk act from Philadelphia. From the hard-left political material to the personal stuff to the songs that are just goofy, their lyrics have something for pretty much everyone, and their sound incorporates influences from all sorts of...

One important thing to remember is that you want to have a couple of mons in there to take the Active spot in the early game as you're setting Glalie up. Sure, the object is to get M-Glalie weakened enough that it can OHKO the format with Cryomouth, but the problem is that it'll be incredibly...

^Aside from which, the fact that you have to rely on multiple types of Energy hurts if you're not Dragon-type (let's just say M-Mewtwo X wishes it was third-gen, when Double Rainbow Energy existed). It's unreliable and slow to set up, so no matter how delicious that attack looks, it's probably...

You've got a couple of options, depending on what you want out of it. Training Center does make Porygon-Z a little sturdier, which could be useful. Rough Seas lets those Manectric-EX stick around a little longer, but is also likely to benefit a fair number of opponents, since M-Manectric is all...

Yo, thanks for this! And don't worry, it's not OP at all. If I had to classify it, I'd call it somewhere along the lines of a mid-BW-era power level, and the flavor is really interesting.

Growl's Japanese name doesn't translate to "growl"; it translates to "cry" or "vocalize", roughly. That's why you see things like Taillow get it, and why Growlithe's Pokedex entry has no bearing on it whatsoever. Besides, we've seen Pokedex entries not reflected in movepools in other cases as...