Darkrai and Hypnotoxic laser

[ryter78]

The basis of the deck is pure speed to get night spears going with hopefully the lethal addition of dark claw and a laser/virbank combo.
It seems pretty standard, built off the popular hammertime decks, but with an added Sigilyph for a little back up.

OLD:

Spoiler

Pokemon:
4x Sableye
3x Darkrai EX
2x Sigilyph
=9
Trainer:
4x Professor Juniper
4x N
2x Bianca
2x Bicycle
1x Random receiver
4x Ultra Ball
4x Pokemon Catcher
4x Dark Patch
4x Poison Hypnotic Beam
2x Potion
3x Dark Claw
3x Virbank City Gym
1x Energy Switch
1x Tool Scrapper
1x Computer Search
=40
Energy:
4 Blend Energy GFPD
7 dark energy
=11

I split up the bianca with bicycle since I'm running sableye as well as it was pointed out as useful in a previous deck I tried to make. Everything else I believe is self explanatory.
This deck is what I'd hope to run at local tournaments, do you believe this deck could stand the heat?
thanks for the help

NEW/UPDATED

Pokemon:
3x Sableye
4x Darkrai EX
1x Keldeo EX
8

Trainer:
4x Professor Juniper
4x N
2x Bianca
1x Bicycle
1x Random receiver
3x Ultra Ball
4x Pokemon Catcher
4x Dark Patch
4x Poison Hypnotic Beam
2x Potion
3x Dark Claw
2x Virbank City Gym
3x Energy Switch
1x Tool Scrapper
2x Level Ball
1x Computer Search
41

Energy:
11 dark energy
11

 

[Tyrant]

Good list but I have a few reccomendations. 3 Virbank is too many with everybody running them.
-1 Virbank

Ultra Ball is good but it is topped by level ball in this deck cause level searches for Sigi and Sableye. But you need ultra for dark patch.
-1 Ultra Ball
+2 Level Ball

Looks great otherwise. Good Luck. Hope I Helped!

 

[AlexanderTheAwesome]

This is probably going to provide you with some help:
-2 Sigilyph - Ruins consistancy
-4 Blends - No Sigi = No blends
-1 Sableye - you only need 3, because you want to force the 7 prize game on your opponent
-1 Bicycle - The fact that Bicycle is in this deck is fine, but if you end up with both in your hand... uhh yeah. Also, you can reuse them
-1 Virbank City Gym - 3 is too many

+1 Keldeo EX - If you attach a Dark energy to it you can have free retrat on every single Pokemon in play, also with the rise in HTL you can rush in retreat to get rid of Special Effects.
+4 Darkness Energy - Just to replace the Blends
+1 Darkrai - Gives you no need to have Super Rod in case of misfortunate prizes
+2 Energy Switch - I'm not really sure how to explain it, but this is going to be pretty helpful
This leaves you with a free space, so enjoy your testing.

 

[ryter78]

I feel a bit insecure without the sigilyph. Even though the deck should go fast, I might be beat to the punch by keldeo or a mirror match and I want protection.

 

[dmaster]

The Blastoise match is iffy either way. They can easily go Blastoise against Sigilyph, so it honestly does very little against the deck.

The math works out great for Darkrai, at least from what I've found. Dark Claw+Virbank+Laser = 140 damage which is just a Night Spear snipe away from killing Keldeos. Same goes for Mewtwo. Dark Claw+Laser also kills Blastoise, but over the course of the game, you'll be lucky if you can actually take that out and have them not set up another one soon after. The hardest thing to deal with is Black Kyurem EX because it has that 10 more HP, which means you either need to Catcher it up and do Laser+Virbank+Confuse Ray to put it at the magic 140 or Catcher it, Laser for 10 and then snipe with Darkrai to set it up that way. Either way, it is fairly difficult and having Sigilyph does not really help the math or your consistency at all in that matchup.

Likewise, Sigilyph honestly doesn't do a ton to Darkrai decks anymore. Laser+Virbank gets around Safeguard and if they stay Active, they could end up being dead if you factor in Confuse Ray+Dark Claw (barring Eviolites). That's honestly not that bad at all.

Meanwhile, you would definitely be missing Keldeo in the mirror match. It's fantastic to get rid of Poison and that will be coming up a _lot_ in that matchup. Take it from somebody that had Keldeo prized during a game and went on to lose (despite getting T2 Night Spear) because my opponent got the 25% chance of Sleep. The Darks will make you less susceptible to any Enhanced Hammers and the Energy Switches let you pull off great tricks whether it be to Junk Hunt or just increase the chance of the T2 Spear which is awesome for this deck.

dmaster out.

 

[ryter78]

The Blastoise match is iffy either way. They can easily go Blastoise against Sigilyph, so it honestly does very little against the deck.

The math works out great for Darkrai, at least from what I've found. Dark Claw+Virbank+Laser = 140 damage which is just a Night Spear snipe away from killing Keldeos. Same goes for Mewtwo. Dark Claw+Laser also kills Blastoise, but over the course of the game, you'll be lucky if you can actually take that out and have them not set up another one soon after. The hardest thing to deal with is Black Kyurem EX because it has that 10 more HP, which means you either need to Catcher it up and do Laser+Virbank+Confuse Ray to put it at the magic 140 or Catcher it, Laser for 10 and then snipe with Darkrai to set it up that way. Either way, it is fairly difficult and having Sigilyph does not really help the math or your consistency at all in that matchup.

Likewise, Sigilyph honestly doesn't do a ton to Darkrai decks anymore. Laser+Virbank gets around Safeguard and if they stay Active, they could end up being dead if you factor in Confuse Ray+Dark Claw (barring Eviolites). That's honestly not that bad at all.

Meanwhile, you would definitely be missing Keldeo in the mirror match. It's fantastic to get rid of Poison and that will be coming up a _lot_ in that matchup. Take it from somebody that had Keldeo prized during a game and went on to lose (despite getting T2 Night Spear) because my opponent got the 25% chance of Sleep. The Darks will make you less susceptible to any Enhanced Hammers and the Energy Switches let you pull off great tricks whether it be to Junk Hunt or just increase the chance of the T2 Spear which is awesome for this deck.

dmaster out.

That is some wonderful insight, thank you. I'll probably follow AlexanderTheAwesome 's advice then.