I would accept your challenge if it were possible. I only have a school computer, so Skype is out of the question. I don't play PTCGO, so getting the cards I would need would be time consuming and probably monetarily difficult.
Thats a shame, i would've liked to play against you since you look like a very good player.
Honestly, do you really believe out of everyone in the world, you're the only player to make this deck work? That's just ignorant. I know that I'm being ignorant to your points, but Jesus Christ, don't flatter yourself so much.
I have looked over on the internet and the only think that is similar to this deck is the old Mew-Ex toolbox and Marshadow-Gx toolbox and they both work on a different mechanic (Mew-Ex needs the pokémon on your bench and Marshadow-Gx in your discard pile while my Ninja Box relies on them being in your deck) and don't revolve around Ninja Box but stick with the usual Sycamore/N draw engine. I would be ignorant if i actually did not look deeply into all what is existant on the net and just came talking shit after playing 10 games with the deck. That is not the case at all.
All Latias does against Trees is turn off item lock. They can still attack your bench.
Ability: Bright Down
Prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent's Pokémon with Abilities.
Barrier Break 70
This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness, Resistance, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.
Bright Down makes you imuned to all pokémon with abilities. Most Trev decks play Trevenant, Necrozma and Tapu Lele and all of those pokémon cannot attack Latias-Ex since they all have abilities. Trevenant decks do not play Hex Maniac, they only occasionally play Silent Lab instead of Dimension Valley.
And with all of the different Pokemon you play, you're going to deadraw. A LOT. That's why nobody played Alex Schemanske's Vilebox list after he got 2nd at Florida last year. The constant toolbox attacking that you do isn't nearly enough to win games. That why Vileplume was added at the time to give the deck a chance at actually doing anything relevant. But wait, it was still bad because it the terrible hands.
Drawing the wrong pokémon is not an issue, you play 4 copy of Ninja Boy. You could not care less which pokémon is in your hand. In regards to drawing, let me count the cards for you that can get you out of this:
- 4 Ultra Balls
- 4 Ninja Boy (as long as you have 1 energy in your hand you could Ninja Boy into Drampa-Gx and Big Wheel)
- 2 Shaymin-Ex
- 2 Tapu Lele Gx
- 2 Trainers Mail
- 3 draw supporters (Lillie, N, Mallow)
- Drampa
- To a lesser extend, Unown and Colress
So in total lets just say that you have about 1/4 of your deck that can help you out of dead draw. It could be better it could be worse. I doubt that Vilebox as so many out's but thats soemthing i am definitely ignorant of so i won't debate on that point whit you.
And playing virtually no draw support doesn't help in the slightest. You know that matchups aren't one-sided right? If you have so little draw support, and only 5 bench spaces, how do you expect to draw exactly what you need? Assuming that you have a Shaymin and a Lele on your bench, you essentially leave yourself with 3 spaces on your bench. And when your only active Mon gets KO'd, you have to put something up.
I am very pleased that you mention this because this is exactly why i am the only one who as been able to make this deck work. The three main problems that needed to be solved in order for this deck to work were bench space, being able to have a backup attacker ready on your bench (without it being susceptible to get destroyed by Guzma or Lysandre) and finding a way to draw without the usual supporters (Sycamore/N) without making it a bad deck. I have been confronted to this problem and after tweaking and testing for a very long time i found a way to solve those problems. And yes i flatter myself very much for this. Let me explain to you.
Ninja Boy is used as a draw supporter and a bench manipulator for the deck. You recycle Shaymin with Ninja Boy and you clear you bench all at once. While you use Sycamore to draw, I use Shaymin and then clear the bench using Ninja Boy on the said Shaymin to turn it into Unown or Electrike to remove those prizes and free bench space. It achieves basically the same as your Sycamore or N with no downside since i remove the easy prizes from the bench. You don't want to go through all your cards with this deck since you need the pokémons in your deck to make Ninja Boy work. You only want to draw as much as you need to in order to get things going. This deck is meant to draw a lot early on and then slow the pace. As you can see the deck also includes Parallel City and Sky Field to further help with bench manipulation. You either get what you need without having to draw much or you expand your bench with Skyfield, drop as many pokémon as you like on your bench and then shrink it back with Parallel city and finish by using Unown so that you are not left with 0 bench space. Heck, you can go from a full Sky Field bench and down to 0 prizes (if you have a rope or you use Lycanroc's Thirsty Eye ability i guess you would have access to 1 prize since it can bypass Electrike's Omega trait but that's all). This is how you make a stall deck work, not letting your opponent have access to easy prizes on your bench.
Out of the actual attackers that you have, only Tauros can use it's attack for 1 Energy attachment. And again, Drampa isn't played by itself. It's basically only a one-of in Garb, which has Garbotoxin, which shuts off Magearna.
Garbotoxin rarely comes online very quickly. Righteous edge is a problem for the first few turns of the game after that it becomes irrelevant. It is usually not the problem.
They also play Guzma. Literally everything plays Guzma. Why make a deck where all of your attackers are 1-ofs?
Guzma is countered by Electrike or Regirock with Omega trait. They can't Guzma your backup attacker. And as i said, you wan't to avoid having free prizes on your bench because this is a stall deck.
You are free to believe that this deck is crap like everyone else. Believe that the earth is flat like everyone does and bash the poor guy saying it is actually round. But please don't come and say i am ignorant whilst you actually have 0 clue how the deck works. Before telling people they are ignorant you actually have to know what you are talking about.
