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Standard Future: Tsareena/Absol

jessalakasam

jessalakasam

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Pokemon: 20
4x Bounsweet SM
4x Steenee SM
4x Tsareena SM
2x Absol ?? (SM1+ in Japan)
2x Shaymin EX ROS
2x Morelull SM
2x Shiinotic SM

Trainers: 28
4x Forest of Giant Plants AOR
3x Ultra Ball SM
3x Sycamore STS
4x Devolution Spray EVO
3x Level Ball NXD
2x N NVI
3x Trainers' Mail AOR
2x Kukui SM
2x Lillie SM
1x Team Skull Grunt SM
1x Team Flare Grunt GEN
2x Lysandre FLF
2x Float Stone PLF
Energy: 8
4x Grass Energy EVO
4x Darkness Energy EVO




Translations:

Bounsweet – Grass – HP60
Basic Pokemon

[G] Sweet Scent: Heal 30 damage from 1 of your Pokemon.

[C] Bounce: 10 damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Steenee – Grass – HP90
Stage 1 – Evolves from Bounsweet

[G] Sweet Scent: Heal 30 damage from 1 of your Pokemon.

[C][C] Stomp: 20+ damage. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 more damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Tsareena – Grass – HP140
Stage 2 – Evolves from Steenee

Ability: Queenly Majesty
Once during your turn (before your attack), when you play this card from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokemon, you may look at your opponent’s hand and discard 1 card.

[G][C][C] Trop Kick: 80 damage. Heal 20 damage from this Pokemon and remove all Special Conditions from this Pokemon.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Professor Kukui – Trainer
Supporter

Draw 2 cards. During this turn, your Pokemon’s attacks do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokemon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn (before your attack).

Lillie – Trainer
Supporter

Draw cards from your deck until you have 6 cards in your hand. If you used this card on your first turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand.

You can’t play more than 1 Supporter card during your turn (before your attack).

Team Skull Grunt – Trainer
Supporter

Your opponent reveals his or her hand. You may discard 2 Energy cards you find there.

You can’t play more than 1 Supporter card during your turn (before your attack).

Absol – Darkness – HP100
Basic Pokemon

[D] Future Sight: Look at the top 4 cards of either player’s deck and return them to the top of that deck in any order.

[D][C] Doom News: Return all Energy cards attached to this Pokemon to your hand. Your opponent’s Active Pokemon is Knocked Out at the end of your opponent’s next turn.

Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: Psychic (-20)
Retreat: 1
 
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Anything with Tsareena is going to be great because Tsareena is completely broken, but Omnipoke had the idea of pairing Alolan Raticate with it.

Yellowswellow did a video on this a couple weeks ago demonstrating just how unbelievable Tsareena actually is.
 
Yeah I saw Yellowswellpw's video on it that's how I got the idea, I could easily throw in an Alolan Raticate but first I'll check out Omnipoke's video :D
 
Omnipoke's video on the new Sun and Moon set is incredibly well done, well structured, well thought out. I just don't think he completely understands exactly how dominant Tsareena is going to be.
 
21times said:
Omnipoke's video on the new Sun and Moon set is incredibly well done, well structured, well thought out. I just don't think he completely understands exactly how dominant Tsareena is going to be.
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I can speak from experience on how broken it is, at a tournament once I ghetsis'd away my opponents entire game, and By the end he barely even got set up also, I LOVE absol with it because in most cases your opponent can't ever draw into what they need I don't know how necessary Faticate is since You'll ALWAYS outspeed your opponent
 
I think Tsaarena (and Lurantis) will be one of my first deck using SM cards =D I hope to get some cards in my prerelease in two weeks
 
I was excited when I first saw ability of Tsareena, but it was lacking some good way to get control of opponents topdeck. Then Absol came out, and I immediately thought about a deck like in this topic :)

What do you need Grass Energies here for? I would go only for Dark energies, to attack with Future Sight and Doom News. I think also that 3 Absols is a minimum.

I wasn't using yet Shiinotic in any deck, is it that useful in grass decks? Wouldn't it be better to add more balls instead of that line (like 1 Ultra Ball, 1 Level Ball, 2 Timer Balls)?
 
Why would you not also run Delinquent in the deck in order to give you another option for removing cards from your opponent's hand??

Also, now that the cards have been out for awhile, any testing results, especially against decks like Volcanion EX, Darkrai EX, etc.? Thanks.
 
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TuxedoBlack said:
Why would you not also run Delinquent in the deck in order to give you another option for removing cards from your opponent's hand??

Also, now that the cards have been out for awhile, any testing results, especially against decks like Volcanion EX, Darkrai EX, etc.? Thanks.
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Yeah I decided to change the deck to Tsareena/Sableye, due to a lack of a win condition with Absol,with a lot of success, I haven't played it too much due to the length of matches, though

@SzymonPrzybyl yeah in hindsight Shiinotic is way too clunky
 
If you have your pinsir out as active...

Flip a coin. If heads, put your opponent's Active Pokémon and all cards attached to it into your opponent's hand.

Then Vincinti from SM2 allows you to reflip that coin toss. Similar to trick coin.

Tsareena + Devo sprays to continually discard cards from your opponent's hand. They'd never get fully set up and eventually you'll only have one mon to deal with.
 
Pair it up with your Team Skull/Grunts and Delinquent, you'd have a very frustrated opponent. Just for kicks, throw a judge in too...
 
jessalakasam said:
Yeah I decided to change the deck to Tsareena/Sableye, due to a lack of a win condition with Absol,with a lot of success, I haven't played it too much due to the length of matches, though

@SzymonPrzybyl yeah in hindsight Shiinotic is way too clunky
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Hey, would you mind sharing your decklist for that sabeleye/tsareena combo for expanded?
 
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