Blaziken the Blacksmith (Blaziken / Pyroar / Reshiram)

[DarkMatterGaming]

Pokemon:

• 
  2 Litleo (XY)
  2 Pyroar (PhF)
  2 Reshiram (LT)
  4 Ancient Torchic
  1 Combusken (FuF)
  4 Blaziken (FuF)

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums:

• 
  2 Bicycle
  4 Rare Candy
  3 Switch
  4 Ultra Ball
  2 VS Seeker
  3 Blacksmith
  2 Colress
  3 N
  4 Professor Juniper
  3 Scorched Earth
  3 Muscle Band

Energy:

• 
  2 Double Colorless Energy
  10 Fire Energy

Possible Additions/Revisions

• - The Blaziken line in general
• - PhF Pyroar for XY Pyroar
• + 3 - 4 Camerupt EX
  
  If Blaziken Kept:
  
• - 1 Rare Candy
• + 1 - 2 Combusken
  

Strategy:

The overall goal of this deck is to gain as much draw/search through discard as possible to feed the graveyard with Fire Energy, and then Blacksmith it onto either Reshiram or Blaziken. They both keep energy in discard, and do decent damage - 120 +20 on Reshiram, and a 150 Snipe to Bench or 150 + 20 hit to the active on Blaziken.

The issue that I'm having at the moment is mostly in setting up Blaziken - I'm fine for the most part on Energy discard. There's also an issue of getting Energy back out of the discard after I use all 3 Blacksmiths - perhaps Lysandre's Trump Card...?

Anyway, I hope that this gave a good enough idea of how the deck works! Thank you!

 

[Card Slinger J]

RE: Blaziken the Blacksmith

I'd take Reshiram out for Trevenant EX seeing as it would help ease your matchup against Seismitoad EX for getting out of Item Lock early game and has more bulk in HP than Plasma Leafeon. I'd also take 2 Bicycle out for 2 extra DCE considering how crucial it is to the deck for getting off Burning Shot with Blaziken or Wood Blast with Trevenant EX. I'd keep in the Blaziken line seeing as it's one of the few playable and semi-competitive Stage 2's in the current format right now, it's no Empoleon (Dark Explorers/Plasma Freeze) but it's pretty darn close.

Lysandre's Trump Card isn't bad but it hurts you more than it does your opponent so I'd consider running Energy Retrieval instead. How come you aren't running Skyla in here for getting Rare Candy? It's a much better play than Teammates right now considering that LaserBank will deny you of the 2 cards you search off of it. Pyroar (Phantom Forces) isn't a bad option to have over Lysandre although it depends on how much Garbodor/Silent Lab is being played in your meta, as for me I didn't want to take any chances so I stuck with Lysandre over Pyroar.

 

[DarkMatterGaming]

RE: Blaziken the Blacksmith

I'd take Reshiram out for Trevenant EX seeing as it would help ease your matchup against Seismitoad EX for getting out of Item Lock early game and has more bulk in HP than Plasma Leafeon. I'd also take 2 Bicycle out for 2 extra DCE considering how crucial it is to the deck for getting off Burning Shot with Blaziken or Wood Blast with Trevenant EX. I'd keep in the Blaziken line seeing as it's one of the few playable and semi-competitive Stage 2's in the current format right now, it's no Empoleon (Dark Explorers/Plasma Freeze) but it's pretty darn close.

Lysandre's Trump Card isn't bad but it hurts you more than it does your opponent so I'd consider running Energy Retrieval instead. How come you aren't running Skyla in here for getting Rare Candy? It's a much better play than Teammates right now considering that LaserBank will deny you of the 2 cards you search off of it. Pyroar (Phantom Forces) isn't a bad option to have over Lysandre although it depends on how much Garbodor is being played in your meta, as for me I didn't want to take any chances so I stuck with Lysandre over Pyroar.

Trevenant EX... isn't a horrible idea, actually. It keeps the deck more consistent than Plasma Leafeon, at least.

Yeah, the DCE is an issue I ran into; I dunno why I thought that was a good idea to begin with. Keeping Blaziken also slows down the prize race now that I think about it, but I still want to try this deck with Camerupt... eventually.

Feeds discard and allows me to draw more out of Scorched Earth? ...I'm sold for Energy Retrieval.

Main I don't run Skyla... I actually don't have any Skylas on PTCGO; I have a few in real life from a Blastoise build I did a few months back, but that's about it. I haven't run into Garbodor on PTCGO lately; I guess it's a question of 'Do I want a Lysandre for an energy, or do I want a Basic blocker?' Hard decision, that.