Mega Blastoise / Blastoise "Big Brother"

[skyla27]

Ok, so I looked at mega blastoise, and everyone is knocking this card because of the mega rule. I think however, with the right build it will be very playable in meta, it resembles a water-type beefed out Genesect. The Evolutionary Sodas are really going to help you out, and you're going to need a thick line to supplement the setup. I imagine it looking something like this:

Pokemon:
2 Mega Blastoise EX
3 Blastoise EX
4 Blastoise
3 Wartortle
4 Squirtle
3 Keldeo EX

Trainers:
4 Skyla
4 Evolutionary Soda
4 Professor Juniper
3 Rare Candy
3 Evolutionary Soda
3 Cilan
3 Super Potion
2 Float Stone
2 Super Rod
1 Gold Potion

Energy:
10 Water
4 DCE

A lot of this deck is going to go into maintaining your Blastoise until it gets set up. theres an inherent problem with the fact that you need to run both Blastoise EX and Deluge Blastoise for this deck to work. However, It can feasibly be done by turn 3 with the right draw, and Mega Blastoise will only need the 3 energies to get rolling. You can take your time setting up deluge Blastoise by quick-hitting with Keldeo then dropping the Float Stone when you need to hightail it back to the bench. It will probably get scrapped, but for the HP Mega Blastoise has, the attack cost is cheap and theres a great return going on with it. The ONLY downside to this is that its pretty much an autoloss to VirGen straight out. Thats the only downside i see to running this deck. that and not being able to run switch, but Keldeo pretty much takes care of that. The other downside? Until I can find a way to fit more Basics, having only 7 means you're going to be mulligining a lot. So there you have it. A basic X/Y Blastoise build. I honestly think Little Blastoise is so much better with Deluge that I really wouldn't try it, but im sure some of the 6 and 8 year olds around will get a kick out of it XD

 

[Blui]

RE: Mega Blastoise/Blastoise "Big Brother"

I think pretty much everyone would rather a T2 Black Ballista than a Hydro Bombard.

 

[Machamp The Champion]

RE: Mega Blastoise/Blastoise "Big Brother"

The other downside? Until I can find a way to fit more Basics, having only 7 means youre going to be mulling a lot.

Uh, you have 10 basics. 4 Squirtle, 3 Keldeo, 3 Blastoise. You're gonna have enough basics.

The concept seems pretty cool, but I think you need some more consistency cards, like Supporters, Ball cards, and ways to get Energy back. I think you should run either Evo Soda or Rare Candy. Having both of them just takes up a lot of space. I think you should cut the Rare Candies for the time being, because Evo Soda can help you with M Blastoise, while Rare Candy doesn't. Because of this, I think you should take out 1 of the Blastoise, because when would you need a 4th Blastoise with only 3 Wartortle?

I think you can also take out 1 Super Rod. I just don't see you needing 2 of them. I don't see the point of the DCE's. Rapid Spin is a really bad attack, so a turn 1 Rapid Spin is not worth 4 cards in your deck. The Cilan can go for other supporters. You want to be drawing other cards every turn, not just Energy. The Float Stone can also go. If you have enough Energy, you shouldn't need to retreat for free. I also think you should swap out the Super Potions for Max Potions. With so much HP, healing all of it instead of just 60 is probably better in the long run.

So here's what we're taking out from the deck:
-3 Rare Candy
-1 Blastoise
-1 Super Rod
-4 DCE
-3 Cilan
-2 Float Stone
-3 Super Potion
17 Cards

With 17 cards, we can find some room for more useful cards, like the ones I said at the beginning.

We can start by giving you 2 extra waters, to make up for the lost DCE's. We can also give you some Ball cards. I think 1 Ultra Ball, 1 Heavy Ball and 1 Level Ball is a good split. Level Ball can help you search out your Squirtle's and Wartortle's, while Heavy Ball can search out all 3 Blastoise's. Evo Soda can search out your evolutions, so you don't need as many Ball cards as other Blastoise decks. If you don't end up liking the Level Ball or Heavy Ball, you can swap them out for more Ultra Ball. We should also add some Energy Retrievals and Super Energy Retrievals. I think a good split would be 2 Superior and 1 Regular. You don't need to retrieve as many Energy as decks with Black Kyurem because you're not discarding as much Energy.

Now we're going to add the most important part: more supporters. 8 is definitely not enough to draw you what you need. I think around 13-14 is a sufficient number of supporters. With your Ace Spec being Gold Potion, we should probably play it safe and make it 14. N is a great card, so we'll add 4 of those. You also have a lot of Pokemon, so I think adding 2 Colress would also be good. We're also adding 3 Max Potion, because we took out the Super Potions earlier.

So here's the cards we added to the deck.
+2 Water Energy
+1 Ultra Ball
+1 Heavy Ball
+1 Level Ball
+2 Superior Energy Retrieval
+1 Energy Retrieval
+4 N
+2 Colress
+3 Max Potion
17 Cards

Another card I'd like to find space for is Mr. Mime. If your opponent can spine your bench, they can soften up your M Blastoise's and be able to one hit KO them, or KO them faster at least, which is very bad for your deck. Mr. Mime would protect your bench and let's you worry about only 1 Pokemon at a time. I'm thinking you could maybe cut a Blastoise EX, a Keldeo EX, a Water Energy, or a Max Potion. Not sure if it's worth it though.

Hope my advice helped you out. Good luck with your deck! It seems like a cool concept.