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Eh, it seems kind of weak as long as N is around, it's too easy to shuffle your opponent's deck at the moment. But after next rotation this could be pretty good, faces competition from Mallow/Zoroark, which grabs you one less card but uses abilities so you aren't vulnerable to an immediate N. If...

Without any good form of energy acceleration Luxray is kind of a nonanswer, 4 energy for 130+40x is very lackluster. Even with item lock slowing your opponent down, it's likely they'll have something better ready by the time you have a stage 3 with 4 energy attached. Luxray's attack is...

Solg/Metagross is honestly not a very good archetype, you should focus on one or the other, and I think that Solg is the stronger deck atm despite being an avid metagross player. It will also get massive buffs in SM5. The main issue the deck has is consistency, without crazy evo acceleration...

When you say 'one energy to lock', are you implying that you're going to be hitting people for 30 damage repeatedly in the late game? Because that isn't going to really win you games. This deck lacks a win condition, I just don't see how you win a game with this unless your gameplan is that your...

I'm not calling Luxray BREAK a good deck (and obviously you'd change your energy comp if you were focusing on it) I'm just pointing out that item lock in this deck isn't creating enough pressure to consistently win games. Unlike toad where you have lasers and bats to pump up damage, and operates...

this deck makes no sense on a systemic level, you can't assume they will Sycamore their items in a format that is going to include Cynthia, which if Legacy is any indication will play heavily into the SM5 on standard supporter lineup. N will also still be around. Decks are generally content to...

Prism Star cards aren't like ACE SPEC though because you can have more than one in your deck, just not of the same Prism Star. Imagine if you could have Dowsing Machine, Master Ball and Computer Search in the same deck. I like the Weavile they've revealed, they're really trying to push an...

i never get why people in these threads just instinctively call everything bad, there were even people in the Gardevoir-GX set saying it 'wasn't that good'. This is a good card that will probably be played most metal decks (aside from Metagross maybe, though it actually does have utility in...

I think these should honestly come with codes for redeeming the decks online, it would reduce the barrier to entry online (which has been and should continue to be seen as the 'advertisement' for the paper game) and deflate the price of the best standard cards. They don't make any money on...

Garbodor is one of the most format defining cards there is right now and it's just a few bucks for a playset. Last format, Vespiquen was one of the biggest decks, and there have been lots of good non-EX/GX decks in the recent past. Expanded has a lot more non-EX/GX focused decks right now...

This isn't an issue because you use the same basic to get to different GX, which have different purposes. You will use the SM card for killing other GX decks and the SM5 Solgaleo-GX. I think the OP list runs a few too many different pokes. There's little point in running both Rayquaza and...

Koko is a deck that is deceptively weak due to the fact that 180 is the current 'magic number' and it only has 170hp, with easy tool/stadium removal you can knock fighting fury belt and paradise off easily so it's hard to prevent losing your koko every turn to something like Drampa or Garde, and...

Yeah, it's a playable deck, but not a good one. Megas are structurally weak right now having lost one of their best support cards in mega turbo and losing their HP advantage, now most stage 1/2 GX cards have as much or more HP than megas and put out damage more efficiently and don't need spirit...

Electrode was actually pretty good again for awhile because people stopped running enhanced hammer due to garb, but now with Kartana coming and probablym ore special energy hate it will be weak again. There's no more terrible feeling than seeing your one prize cost special energy get discarded...

Raichu really isn't good in standard, you can't even try to use the Raikou as an Oblivion Wing replacement that well. Raichu/Eels is the way to play this card but even that has a rough time with consistency.

Only if they bring ACE SPEC back and make it one. Then it would be balanced, provided there were other ACE SPEC cards that forced you to take a tradeoff to play it (ie something as good as computer search)

I think you underestimate the jank factor involved in running both a stage 2 and stage 1 line in the same deck. Even with the nice free tree swarm attack, unlike frogadier you're reliant on having Exeggutes on your bench already which means running items, in standard thick lines of ball cards so...

Altaria is playable, it's not horrible, you can win online and in casuals but if you want to go to leagues or whatever you will lose a lot. As I said, megas in general are bad in standard because GX have largely powercrept them and they lost mega turbo. One virtue of it being bad is that the...

1. Mega Altaria is not a very good card, let's just get that out there right now. Megas are in a bad place right now and that's especially true of this card because it was very reliant on mega turbo which is now expanded only. It's good enough to play online though. 2. Hoothoot and Noctowl...

I'd rather use this in expanded than standard honestly where you can use PLF eggs and battle compressors to get a full bench t1. I don't think Eggy-GX is even good compared to this card, maybe you'd run one of them but this thing, if you get 2 energy on it that's 4 flips with Venusaur. Victini...