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Standard First Standard Deck (Toxapex GX)

ElementZero

ElementZero

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My first attempt at a pure standard deck (started with expanded). Wanted to do something psychic but became interested in the new Toxapex. Want to do something with poison but dont know much about what supports it in standard. Help is greatly welcome. Also I am on a bit of a budget so i know there arent any max elixers.

Pokemon: 15
3x Mareanie 62/149
3x Toxapex GX 57/145
3x Mewtwo EX 62/162
2x Mimikyu 58/145
2x Trubbish 56/122
2x Garbodor 51/145

Trainers: 34

3x Float Stone
3x Ultra Ball
3x Field Blower
2x Professor Kukui
2x Lillie
2x N
2x Professor Sycamore
2x VS Seeker
2x Lysandre
2x Choice Band
2x Energy Retrieval
2x Nest Ball
2x Professor's Letter
2x Hau
1x Shauna
1x Exp. Share
1x Trainers' Mail

Energy: 12
10x Psychic Energy
2x Double Colorless Energy
 
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You have a lot of stuff in there that does not complement one another.

I am currently working on a toxapex centric deck, but I have no idea if it will actually work. Let me first ask what direction do you want to go? Poison with toxapex or psychic damage with mewtwo? Tapu lele will be a much better complement to mewtwo than toxapex is.

Once I know that I can try and help a bit or share my toxapex theory craft once I am done with it.
 
This is what I have so far, but I do not have the toxapex online yet so I haven't tested it. The theory is all about poisoning and keeping them stuck out. It uses the dugtrio to increase retreat cost, the garb to stop abilities like stand in and ultra road. The gr garb is for a late game single prize attacker. The field blower is to remove stadiums that drop retreat cost and float stones.

I am not satisfied with the supporter line up currently. Lysander 4 of is a necessity though so you can play around the powered up Pokémon and get others stuck in the active.

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 20

* 2 Alolan Diglett SUM 86
* 2 Alolan Dugtrio SUM 87
* 4 Mareanie SUM 62
* 1 Toxapex SUM 63
* 3 Toxapex-GX GRI 57
* 4 Trubbish GRI 50
* 2 Garbodor GRI 51
* 2 Garbodor BKP 57

##Trainer Cards - 30

* 4 Lysandre AOR 78
* 4 Professor Sycamore BKP 107
* 4 Field Blower GRI 125
* 2 N NVI 92
* 4 Ultra Ball SUM 135
* 2 Choice Band GRI 121
* 4 Float Stone BKT 137
* 2 Nest Ball SUM 123
* 4 VS Seeker PHF 109

##Energy - 10

* 10 Psychic Energy Energy 5

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******
 
I understand the deck however why would run both garbodor and the dugtrio together as they kinda clash
 
Very true... I am not sure the dug trio is going to be very effective but it was all I could find to prevent manual retreat. Maybe just the 100 tick with the lysandre will be enough and you could add in some other poison support.

I think the deck would shine a lot more in expanded with virbank city gym and hypnotoxic laser, but I want to try and make it work in standard. Still very much a work in progress.
 
True I know of better support outside of standard but am still not too knowledgeable about the newer sets. I'll try the dugtrio though. The reason I have some odd cards in there is because I'm on a tight budget as of late. I have stuff like mimikyu and jirachi that supplements draw and search power and they do that well as starters. Mewtwo also works as a backup plan in case I get stuck early game and need an alternate power card.
 
So I do have 2 versions of toxapex that I am working on... One is a toxapex + wobbuffet... the other is toxapex + vileplume.

I did not find the dugtrio to be very helpful... the plume helps a lot to prevent switches/ropes

The wobbuffet takes a bit more micormanaging and working... you want to float the tox and the wobb so you can switch around and try to keep a mix of ability lock + poison going... I can post lists tonight if you are interested.
 
I just haven't found any situations where they would have the ability to retreat and it is stopped by dugtrio. Usually the opponent either has a powered Pokémon and the energy attached is already enough for +1 retreat (lapras with 2 retreat but 3 energy to attack) or I Lysander up an empty Pokémon and it can't retreat anyway.

Here is toxafet

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 12

* 4 Mareanie SUM 62
* 4 Toxapex-GX GRI 57
* 1 Tapu Lele-GX GRI 60
* 3 Wobbuffet GEN 111

##Trainer Cards - 36

* 4 Trainers' Mail ROS 92
* 2 Wally ROS 94
* 1 Olympia GEN 66
* 4 Lysandre AOR 78
* 4 Professor Sycamore BKP 107
* 4 Field Blower GRI 125
* 3 N NVI 92
* 4 Ultra Ball SUM 135
* 4 Float Stone BKT 137
* 2 Nest Ball SUM 123
* 4 VS Seeker PHF 109

##Energy - 12

* 12 Psychic Energy Energy 5

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******


Here is toxaplume

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 17

* 2 Shaymin-EX ROS 77
* 2 Oddish AOR 1
* 2 Gloom AOR 2
* 2 Vileplume AOR 3
* 4 Mareanie SUM 62
* 4 Toxapex-GX GRI 57
* 1 Tapu Lele-GX GRI 60

##Trainer Cards - 32

* 4 Trainers' Mail ROS 92
* 3 Lysandre AOR 78
* 4 Professor Sycamore BKP 107
* 2 Field Blower GRI 125
* 4 Forest of Giant Plants AOR 74
* 3 N NVI 92
* 3 Level Ball AOR 76
* 4 Ultra Ball SUM 135
* 3 Float Stone BKT 137
* 2 Nest Ball SUM 123

##Energy - 11

* 11 Psychic Energy Energy 5

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******
 
I have not, I do not have that card, but let me know if you test it and you think it works out
 
Niflheim4 said:
This is what I have so far, but I do not have the toxapex online yet so I haven't tested it. The theory is all about poisoning and keeping them stuck out. It uses the dugtrio to increase retreat cost, the garb to stop abilities like stand in and ultra road. The gr garb is for a late game single prize attacker. The field blower is to remove stadiums that drop retreat cost and float stones.

I am not satisfied with the supporter line up currently. Lysander 4 of is a necessity though so you can play around the powered up Pokémon and get others stuck in the active.

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 20

* 2 Alolan Diglett SUM 86
* 2 Alolan Dugtrio SUM 87
* 4 Mareanie SUM 62
* 1 Toxapex SUM 63
* 3 Toxapex-GX GRI 57
* 4 Trubbish GRI 50
* 2 Garbodor GRI 51
* 2 Garbodor BKP 57

##Trainer Cards - 30

* 4 Lysandre AOR 78
* 4 Professor Sycamore BKP 107
* 4 Field Blower GRI 125
* 2 N NVI 92
* 4 Ultra Ball SUM 135
* 2 Choice Band GRI 121
* 4 Float Stone BKT 137
* 2 Nest Ball SUM 123
* 4 VS Seeker PHF 109

##Energy - 10

* 10 Psychic Energy Energy 5

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******
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Why not use team aqua's secret base instead? You can drop the 2-2 line and just pick up 4 of those...
 
PokieMorff said:
Why not use team aqua's secret base instead? You can drop the 2-2 line and just pick up 4 of those...
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I did test team aqua... with field blower and most decks running their own stadiums I just felt like it was too easily gotten rid of and ended up being a dead card or used for stadium bump rather than the + retreat.
 
You dont need choice band because it will not amplify the damage of super toxic poison. also instead of running 4 float stone maybe run 2 float stone and 2 poison barb, that way if they switch to get rid of the poison from toxapex, they will get poisoned again. not the 100 damage poison but still a deterent to anyone attacking your active.
 
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