Dragapult / Dusknoir — New Best Deck in Format

[PMJ]

Hello to all PokeBeach readers, this is Gabriel Semedo again with another Pokemon TCG article. This time, I want to talk about Dragapult ex / Dusknoir—the best deck in the format and my top choice for the European International Championships (EUIC).
Recently, I’ve been playing Dragapult much more than any other deck. My initial goal wasn’t even to use the deck, but rather to find one that had a good matchup against it while also performing well against the rest of the metagame. Sometimes, I play games with myself to test ideas, so I almost always test them against Dragapult ex / Dusknoir or Gardevoir ex. I even ended up finding some interesting options for EUIC, like...

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[Exo]

Single prize decks are not having a fun time right now with that headline

 

[kourasmeni]

I've been playing a Dragapult / Pidgeot deck lately, once you get it running (which isn't too hard), it's hard to stop. Being able to pull a Counter Catcher or Boss's Orders every turn feels really nasty and usually it ends with me grabbing 4 Prize cards at once. There are some matchups where the math's a bit more difficult, which is where Dusknoir would've been handy

 

[Charmaster:)]

As an observer who knows he might some day build decks from this format for casual play, I love the way this article not only explained which matchups were favorable and unfavorable for each variant, but broke down the use-cases for each Ace Spec in the Charizard variant.

 

[Celery]

This deck makes me angry