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It absolutely does matter that it's a stage 2. Being a stage 2 means you need a larger deck investment to make it work. You will run 1-3 Marshtomp and probably 4 Rare Candy. I'd say that you're by necessity running at the very least 6 more cards than Zoroark does to get the one extra draw per...

I mean Swampert is playable in the same sense that Sceptile is playable, it's got a good ability and conceptually strong attack, but the issue is their attacks don't ramp up fast enough considering they're both stage 2s, and stage 2 comes at a very large consistency and deck investment premium...

Latios is perfect for fluffynite, actually so good that it might give the deck some wings. Lisia is pretty bad because right now prism stars are all supporters, which can't be played the same turn you play her, or pokemon, and most decks just run one prism star poke if any. Steven is good...

Everyone predicted this, what surprises me is they did nothing to hinder Zoroark in expanded which means they're okay with it getting 6/8ths of top placements at every event. I guess if it sells zoroark and shining legends boxes.

After the Hoenn set its been teased that they're doing an Unova set, so a good opportunity to bring in another form of ability lock. I doubt we'll get something as strong as garbotoxin though, something that locks evolution pokemon abilities the same way alolan muk locks basics would be nice though.

Kartana would have been great with just an M cost but MM is a big investment for a card that won't be useful at all after the first few turns. Celesteela could definitely see play as a one of in metal, 4-2 split is pretty common and one metal and a band for 190 is pretty impressive any way you...

Of course we acknowledge this, it still means that you need more energy on the field to hit the same damage numbers, and you have to keep that energy on the field. It doesn't matter what it's attached to, you will take more turns to get the same damage out of Rayquaza that you do out of Bulu...

Until we have a complete setlist for our SM7 speculation is kind of pointless. Chances are, most of the decks that are good today will be good post rotation as well. Nothing takes a fundamentally deck destroying blow except the decks that are losing their main attackers, Greninja, Volcanion...

Not really unfair, since all international standard cards are by definition legal in Japanese standard. If you're playing at a high enough level to get into worlds, the differences between our formats aren't that hard to adapt to. Some international players make it to worlds based on performance...

I'm not convinced on Rayquaza, I think Bulu is still the better Vikavolt partner, the ability is nice and all but you need 2x as much energy on the field to OHKO the 200/210 cards and 30x means you hit 150 with 5, which puts you right below the number you need to kill the popular base 190 cards...

Yeah, that was my main concern with devoting items to reuse of abilities, I tested with scoop ups but like I said, made very dire consistency sacrifices for them especially considering they're flip based, and devo sprays only let you partially reuse a frog which I figured wouldn't be very...

If I were to do that I'd use super scoop ups like people did with Bats decks back in the day since they let you go all of the way back to Froakie and use both Frogadier and Greninja's abilities. My gameplan so far has been to switch to Greninja after softening opponents up with Glaceon. Its...

Pokémon - 21 * 4 Eevee SUM 101 * 1 Tapu Lele-GX GRI 60 * 4 Froakie FLI 22 * 1 Volcanion {*} FLI 31 * 4 Frogadier FLI 23 * 3 Glaceon-GX UPR 39 * 4 Greninja-GX FLI 120 Trainer Cards - 28 * 3 Aqua Patch GRI 119 * 1 Rescue Stretcher GRI 130 * 2 Professor Sycamore BKP 107 * 2 N PR-BLW BW100 * 1...

To be fair, there's no arguing that DM/Zoroark/Magnezone and Zoroark/Garde are less consistent than the double stage 1 variants just because of the stage 2 factor. Zoro/Goli has a very hard time dealing with Hoopa which IMO puts it solidly below Lycan and Lucario, the tradeoff there being...

Right now Zoroark is the dominant attacker in the format despite Buzzwole having more CP winnings, Buzzwole's popularity and success is largely an artifact of Zoroark being what it is: The most consistent, most well rounded, easily paired and most easily teched deck archetype in the game. There...

1. Lycanrock is only there for the ability and sometimes the GX attack. You should generally not be investing energy into it, get one basic fighting on it so you can fighting or strong it for a Dangerous Rogue-GX. 2. Jet Punch placement is key. Be thinking when you drop the extra damage, what on...

I playtested some lists with proxies back when it was announced, I ended on about the same energy count, I think I ran 9 psychic instead. I doubled up on Dawn Wings and ran another super rod over the letter. Pro: Extremely consistent setup, I notice less variance in t1 for this deck than...

Once we see the official translation we'll know for sure. It's numerically identical and the Japanese is the same, so it should be. The only difference in text I'm aware of is the old one didn't indicate that weakness was x2. The only thing that makes me think that maybe copycat and supporter...

You have too many pokemon for starters, even without counts your pokemon inclusion ideas are all over the place. Swampert/Kingdra is going to be painful to play as it is because double stage 2s makes your deck inherently inconsistent, the more pokemon you have the less likely you are to have the...

Copycat will see play in any format where Zoroark is big. The old ones will probably be legal, minor technicalities in the text don't matter unless they functionally change what the card does as in the case of original rainbow energy, or where core functionality was altered like energy...