Blocking Out the Sun — Snorlax for Charlotte

[PMJ]

Hey everyone! It’s Charlie, and I’m happy to be back with another article. With Charlotte Regionals coming up, I’ve been working on a few different decks to try and counter the new meta. One thing I’ve been focusing on recently is control concepts. While Snorlax Stall has been very successful recently, it has a notoriously bad matchup against Giratina VSTAR decks, which just took first and second place at the Portland Regional Championships. With such a bad matchup against the likely best deck in format, Snorlax Stall needs to adjust if it wants any chance to succeed. However, this isn’t as easy as just adding a few techs and making the matchup an auto-win. Lost Zone Giratina has a very specific set of tools at its disposal that makes dealing with control decks pretty easy. With multiple switching Items, four...

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[Octowen]

Ugh. Stall.

 

[NevGuy]

Despite all the hate it receives, Stallax is a really unique and fun deck to play. If you ever get bored of your usuals, I'd definitely recommend it.

 

[Bradachin]

How will this deck be changed with rotation?

 

[Octowen]

Despite all the hate it receives, Stallax is a really unique and fun deck to play. If you ever get bored of your usuals, I'd definitely recommend it.

Tbh it does look really fun to try.

 

[XtremeFate]

How will this deck be changed with rotation?

I haven’t spent much time thinking about it yet, but a lot of the most important cards like snorlax and counter catcher will stick around, so I see the deck staying viable one way or another. Also the loss of escape rope will cause marginally less decks to play hard switch cards.

 

[Clear]

How will this deck be changed with rotation?

Losing horn, and Avery, would have the deck change, now that the discard pile is a safe spot. It needs to run more 1-of jank cards (Lure Module + Erika), and use Eri to scout/snipe UB and Pal Pad, to get to the lock, and it even auto-loses to Gardevoir which can lay down 0 liabilities (4 Teleport Ralts, Spritomb, and Zacian)
Stall probably need to move off snorlax and be focus on a hand control variant that aims to empty options before they get to play the game.

 

[NevGuy]

Losing horn, and Avery, would have the deck change, now that the discard pile is a safe spot. It needs to run more 1-of jank cards (Lure Module + Erika), and use Eri to scout/snipe UB and Pal Pad, to get to the lock, and it even auto-loses to Gardevoir which can lay down 0 liabilities (4 Teleport Ralts, Spritomb, and Zacian)
Stall probably need to move off snorlax and be focus on a hand control variant that aims to empty options before they get to play the game.

A pseudo Avery can be replicated with Collapsed Stadium+Lost Vacuum+Erika, but still, losing Echoing Horn really sucks.

 

[EFit]

Losing horn, and Avery, would have the deck change, now that the discard pile is a safe spot. It needs to run more 1-of jank cards (Lure Module + Erika), and use Eri to scout/snipe UB and Pal Pad, to get to the lock, and it even auto-loses to Gardevoir which can lay down 0 liabilities (4 Teleport Ralts, Spritomb, and Zacian)
Stall probably need to move off snorlax and be focus on a hand control variant that aims to empty options before they get to play the game.

Gardevoir loses Zacian V in rotation, at the very least- but I do agree that hand control is gonna be the more viable option. Multiple counts of hand clippers combined with Roxanne/Iono seems like it’ll be the play. I think one of the biggest losses for Blocklax (and other slow moving control decks) will actually be Peonia