Standard Celebi/Gengar

[FreddyIs]

My daughter (7 years old) fell in love with Celebi so she asked for a deck built around this pokemon. I would like to make her a deck that can get her some victories against the standard EX heavy decks without having to spend too much. We do not have too much experience with deck building, only been playing for a few weeks so any advice and suggestions would be appreciated.

The strategy is to use Celebi as a no-prize wall buy time to evolve Gengar and to put damage counters on all of the opponent’s pokemon, and then using Gengar (with a fighting fury belt to improve survivability) to knock 'em out with Creep Show. Evolving to Haunter will keep the pokemon confused, Dimension Valley will make Creep Show cost only one energy. Gengar EX is there as alternate attacker quick hit and fade attacker using Dark Corridor with a muscle band attached. And we want to keep her hand full of a slew of supporters and items to keep going; Brigette keeps the bench full of Celebi and Gastly, Level balls can put Haunters into her hand to evolve (or grab Celebi, Gastly, Remoraid, Octillery, or Mr Mime), Wally to immediately evolve to Gengar in the same turn, Pokemon Fan Club can grab the EXs or any other basic I need. Cassius and Super Scoop Up will save a Gengar or Gengar EX that is in danger of being knocked out, or she could just use it to change out the active pokemon. Super Rod and Fisherman to recover Celebis and energy that failed their saving coin flip.

Here is the deck list so far:

Pokemon(16):
3x Celebi (XY Promo 93)
3x Gastly (BREAKthrough 58)
3x Haunter (BREAKthrough 59)
2x Gengar (BREAKthrough 60)
2x Gengar-EX (Phantom Forces 34)
1x Mr. Mime (BREAKthrough 97)
1x Remoraid (BREAKthrough 32)
1x Octillery (BREAKthrough 33)

Energy(8):
4x Psychic
4x Grass

Trainer(34):
2x Dimension Valley
4x Professor Birch's Observations
3x Teammates
2x Steven
2x Bridgette
1x Pokemon Fan Club
1x Lysandre
1x Cassius
1x Wally
1x Fisherman
3x VS Seeker
2x Trainer Mail
3x Level Ball
2x Ultra Ball
2x Professor’s Letter
2x Super Scoop Up
3x Super Rod

My daughter has played me and the wife a couple of times and managed to hold pretty well against my Darkai EX/Darkrai deck and my wife's Raikou deck. Though the deck can be pretty slow since she has to build up the three damage counters necessary to enable Gengar's Creep Show keep an evolved Gengar ready.
And has come down to 1-1 prize card left a couple times.

 

[RedT]

Celebi XY93 is my favourite X&Y era card, and I found in standard it's just caught in a weird meta that doesn't reward its use, but there is an option to use it with Bursting Balloon. The issue is what else to base the deck around, I tried a number of options including M-Tyranitar EX (can have 2 tools) and other shenanigans. The new Azelf promo is alright since it only uses 1 energy too. But Hoopa-EX

But in the end, I concluded the strongest use of Celebi XY93 is in an expanded deck revolving around Shedinja, (Roaring Skies) Frozen City, (Plasma Freeze) Ninjask, (B&W) and Mew-EX (DRX)

You spread around some "love" with Celebi while you establish your Shedinja on the bench so Mew-EX can use its 50x damage per damage counter attack (Hopeless Scream) after attaching Rainbow Energy to Mew-EX and taking 30 damage (due to Frozen City) and thus dealing a minimum of 150 damage for 1 energy.

Celebi is very useful in this deck, and especially with a Rock Guard, which has the potential to be shuffled back into the deck after use.

The most damage I've done with Mew-EX in this deck is 1100 and it's got a pretty high win rate for me in PTCGO
(weakness and 11 damage counters on Mew-EX)