Cobalion EX / Drifblim

[Ivy_Profen]

Pokemon: 12

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  3 Cobalion EX
  2 Cobalion LT
  3-3 Drifblim DRX
  1 Kyurem (Outrage)

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 38

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  4 Juniper
  3 N
  4 Skyla
  2 Colress
  2 Lysandre
  1 Pokemon Fan Club
  3 Ultra Ball
  1 Startling Megaphone
  1 Professor's Letter
  2 Mountain Ring
  3 Crushing Hammers
  3 Max Potion
  1 Pal Pad
  2 Switch
  3 Muscle Bands
  1 Sacred Ash
  1 Energy Retrieval
  1 Evosoda
  

Energy: 10

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  10 Metal

Strategy:
Hit with Cobalion Ex to discard the ever so prevalent special energies. Then bring out Drifblim and hit for weakness. Regular Cobalion prevents the opponent from attacking, and can stop item locks. Kyurem can be a decent count to fire, the Ex or otherwise. As long as it has outrage.

In the future the new Bronzgong could probably be added in to make this deck more consistently fast.

I would also have added in Garbodor for pyroar, if Garbodor wasnt so popular in my area that about half the decks run it anyway. It would be a waste of space. Other than that Drifblim handles them pretty well once a few special energy hit the discard.

Any thoughts, since this was really only the first pass for this deck list? I haven't really played a Metal deck before.

 

[Auride]

RE: Cobalion Ex/Drifblim

I would recommend dropping a Cobalion LTR for a 4th Cobalion-EX, primarily due to the fact that it's your only worthwhile starter. Also, I don't really understand the point of Kyurem. It doesn't counter Pyroar, and the only other prominent Fire type attacker is Charizard-EX, which isn't really that prominent, and isn't really countered by Kyurem at all. I think it's better to just accept the bad matchup if you don't expect to see much Pyroar (with all the Garbodor around). There's nothing simple that covers it besides your own Garbodor and maybe Beartic FUF (which doesn't do enough to Pyroar).

Perhaps you could add in Rainbow Energy and, say, Suicune PLB. I dunno. Good luck

 

[Ivy_Profen]

RE: Cobalion Ex/Drifblim

I guess i could add another Cobalion Ex. As for the kyurem, i was mostly thinking about charizard. But now that i think about it, it wouldn't survive an attack anyway.i just dont know what to add in for just more basic pokemon or something can deal with fire types.

I also dont find Beartic a good pyroar counter for my local metagame. Every deck with Pyroar does run float stones for some reason as do all the landorus decks. So Beartic is kind of a wasted slot. Drifblims should be able to handle pyroar after some DCE gets dropped.

 

[Ivy_Profen]

Still waiting on my Cobalion LT to come in the mail, before i start testing. Still debating on a 4th Cobalion. I dont know if i feel like dropping more money on an Ex atm, since i dont know how long i will even play this deck.

I also dont know how important Max Potion, Crushing Hammer, pokemon fan club, or kyurem are. Im considering adding in a few different pokemon. Not sure which though.
-Jirachi Ex Consistency
-Leafeon
-Skarmory Ex
-Milotic FLF

Maybe some energy switch, more energy, or even lasers.

Theres a weird amount of excess space i cant figure out what to do with.

 

[Kecleon-X]

I would really not add in Milotic, as that can't add Energy to Cobalion EX. As for the Hammers, they are what makes this deck a non-autoloss against things like Sigilyph, and even Virizion / Genesect because you can discard those benched Energy, as well as the single Grass that Virizion has on him/her to begin with. Don't underestimate them!

As for the fourth Cobalion, I might not. Three seems fine, and you're not over or underdoing it.

But what I might take out for something like a Jirachi might be Kyurem due to the fact that Kyurem, at its core, can't do too much for you. One of the matchups that really bites with this deck is Pyroar, and with Kyurem, you're not countering much other than the occasional Landorus or Charizard. What I might put in in his stead is trying to fit in Beartic -- Beartic helps tremendously against obnoxious things like Pyroar, so I might try to fit in a 2-2 line of him, starting on taking out the LTR Cobalion.

LTR Cobalion is just really underwhelming in this deck, in my opinion, and I feel as though it would be better in its own deck. They don't buy you much, so I might take them out for a line of Beartic, then the Kyruem for another, then maybe a metal to fill in that last spot? Just some ideas.

Hope I helped!

 

[Ivy_Profen]

I don't like beartic for my metagame. Everyone uses float stones or fairy garden. So beartic wont do any damage. It especially doesn't help against big basic garbodor, which half the decks are at my local tournaments.

atm the decks i have to deal with are:
3-4 Big basic mewtwo/seismitoad/landorus/ garbodor decks
1 Fighting big basics with garbodor
1 Seismitoad big basics with garbdor
2 Fairy decks
1 Pyroar/Charizard
1 Pyroar with Big Basics
1 Plasma Seismitoad, my roommates deck that im working on.
a few other random decks that are generally terrible.

Fire worries me the most, and i dont know what to tech in for it. And the fire decks run float stones, since someone has tried using beartic before.

I guess i could always put lasers and/or toxicroak to deal with pyroar.

 

[PaulieM]

Put in 4 rainbow energy and you could go with a couple Eevee with Plasma Leafeon (energy crush) and FFI Glaceon. Rainbow helps with fairies as you also get the garden retreat, Leafeon for toad and fairies and glaceon for fire. Could run the older Eevees if you don't want to tech in water and grass, and get 10 more HP.

 

[Ivy_Profen]

umm, did you even look at my deck? This isn't a fairy deck, so theres no fairy garden. And i rather have mountain ring up rather than my opponent have fairy garden if i were to be fighting a fairy deck. Since fairy pokemon are weak to metal, i'm not really worried about that match up. Energy Press on any of the fairy types will probably hurt pretty bad. Xerneas Ex needs 3 energy to do breakthrough, and with those 3 energy and a muscle band on Cobalion LT, its a OHKO.

I could do leafeon. But it doesnt need grass energy and i doubt i would run 1 grass, just to evolve to leafeon. There is no way i would want to start turn 1 with a grass/water energy rather than a metal energy that lets cobalion do its work.

 

[Kecleon-X]

I don't like beartic for my metagame. Everyone uses float stones or fairy garden. So beartic wont do any damage. It especially doesn't help against big basic garbodor, which half the decks are at my local tournaments.

atm the decks i have to deal with are:
3-4 Big basic mewtwo/seismitoad/landorus/ garbodor decks
1 Fighting big basics with garbodor
1 Seismitoad big basics with garbdor
2 Fairy decks
1 Pyroar/Charizard
1 Pyroar with Big Basics
1 Plasma Seismitoad, my roommates deck that im working on.
a few other random decks that are generally terrible.

Fire worries me the most, and i dont know what to tech in for it. And the fire decks run float stones, since someone has tried using beartic before.

I guess i could always put lasers and/or toxicroak to deal with pyroar.

You could, but most run four switches to take care of things like that.

Another thing you could do is this: Run Gyarados from LTR. Crazy, I know, but in this case I think it might be for the better. Since Pyroar only blocks damage and not effects, you could sit up there with a Cobalion and let him do his thing, luring them into KOing you. (It's a Metal EX, they're gonna do it) Then you come up with a Gyarados with a Muscle Band, then Howling Rampage for the KO. He has a rather high amount of HP (same as Beartics, actually) so they can't OHKO it, leading you to take a multitude of prizes with Gyarados. Unfortunately, it requires you to have lost prize cards (unless you manage to take two prizes off, say, a benched Mewtwo with a Lysandre and Drifblim) and it takes a Water Energy, so I don't know if that's what you want to do, but I would at least consider it, seeing as Beartic won't work in your area.

By the by, I think PaulieM was recommending you run Rainbow to abuse their Fairy Garden instead of running your own. I've accidentally run into that once, actually, when I ran Prisms and ended up facing a Fairy Deck.

Hope I helped!