@Robin Aisaga
Okay, so my biggest, most important question is... is that Kurapika with a Pikachu on his head in your current avatar?
These are not decks I've run; obviously I can't run a card I don't own in the case of Gardevoir-EX. Since I hate facing most first turn locks, I decided not to play them; that means my experience with Trevenant BREAK is facing it, not running it. I don't think I've gotten enough Alakazam-EX/M Alakazam-EX to run it as the focus of its own deck, plus my experience facing it is that it works best as a back-up to Trevenant BREAK (which is not necessarily the best version of Trevenant BREAK, just the most effective M Alakazam-EX deck I've encountered). What I can tell you is that a lot of your counterpoints are based on "A isn't as good as B". Even for Theorymon that is plainly true. So I'm not disagreeing with you there. The question I ask is "Will it be good enough to prove competitive?" With several cards (like Battle Compressor) common to most dominant decks rotating out of Standard play, it is possible (even probable) that decks across the board will be diminished.
As for some of the specifics; we still have Acro Bike Professor Sycamore, and Ultra Ball for discards, and that assumes we gain nothing else. If you go first, you can't attack first turn anyway, so half the time your very first attacker could get two Energy attachments. Yes, always a risk your opponent will discard that Energy (s'why I get on my soap box about Energy removal being too potent for Items). If we don't get Karen so that Hoopa-EX and Shaymin-EX (among others) can be recycled each turn, I won't be expecting much out of the new Gardevoir-EX anyway.
Careful, you're starting to sound like me.
Okay, so my biggest, most important question is... is that Kurapika with a Pikachu on his head in your current avatar?
These are not decks I've run; obviously I can't run a card I don't own in the case of Gardevoir-EX. Since I hate facing most first turn locks, I decided not to play them; that means my experience with Trevenant BREAK is facing it, not running it. I don't think I've gotten enough Alakazam-EX/M Alakazam-EX to run it as the focus of its own deck, plus my experience facing it is that it works best as a back-up to Trevenant BREAK (which is not necessarily the best version of Trevenant BREAK, just the most effective M Alakazam-EX deck I've encountered). What I can tell you is that a lot of your counterpoints are based on "A isn't as good as B". Even for Theorymon that is plainly true. So I'm not disagreeing with you there. The question I ask is "Will it be good enough to prove competitive?" With several cards (like Battle Compressor) common to most dominant decks rotating out of Standard play, it is possible (even probable) that decks across the board will be diminished.
As for some of the specifics; we still have Acro Bike Professor Sycamore, and Ultra Ball for discards, and that assumes we gain nothing else. If you go first, you can't attack first turn anyway, so half the time your very first attacker could get two Energy attachments. Yes, always a risk your opponent will discard that Energy (s'why I get on my soap box about Energy removal being too potent for Items). If we don't get Karen so that Hoopa-EX and Shaymin-EX (among others) can be recycled each turn, I won't be expecting much out of the new Gardevoir-EX anyway.
...Defending a deck that can never exist, How silly of me
Careful, you're starting to sound like me.