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Alt. Format Mewsplosion Legacy deck.

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MissingNo_Gl1tch

MissingNo_Gl1tch

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After getting into legacy and learning the ins and outs of the format I've tried to build decks not seen before. As I experimenting i discovered a way to get valuable stage 2 Pokémon up quickly without having to use basics, stage 1s, or rare candies. I would use a combination of mew prime and relicanth to get lifesplosion cradily into the lost zone. From there, mew using prism energies and dces could use lifesplosion to put gothlitelle, dusknoir, and metagross onto my bench in a single move. Gothlitelle for item lock, dusknoir to spread Damage, and plasma metagross for free reteat. After setting up I would put accelgor into the lost zone and use mew prime to use deck and cover. Gothlitelle would switch into the active spot to initiate an item lock and I would use max potions on goth while I set up another mew while reliably moving Damage with dusknoir to the most threatening cards on my opponents side. Rinse and repeat. Between the item lock and paralyze poison lock i could consistently keep my opponent from doing literally anything except playing supporters. I eventually took out the metagross because float stones worked better.

Here is my list
4 Mew primes
3 Relicanths
2 Gothlitelles
2 Dusknoirs
2 Accelgors
2 Cradilys

4 PONT
2 Juniper
1 Colress
1 Hugh
1 Twins
1 Dowsing machine
2 Energy exchanger
2 tool scrapper
4 Junk arms
1 Super rod
3 virbank city gyms
4 level balls
2 Pokémon communicators
3 Float stones
2 Hypnotoxic lasers
2 max potions

2 psychic energies
4 prism energies
4 double colorless energies

Of course the possibilities are endless. You could use mewsplosion to get dual brain magneZone, flygon, vileplume, serperior, gengar prime, gardevoir.....This is just my deck that I've experimented with and had success against legacy staple decks. The biggest threat to this deck is celebi/gene sect and garbodor. How fast I set up is the key, once my opponent is in the lock vortex, garbodor isn't much of a problem. Of course celebi genesect just sets up so much faster that I have a hard time doing anything against it.

I'm curious to see if anyone else has tried a variation of this deck and had success.
 
This might be the only build of Life Explosion that's remotely viable, so hey cheers. The problem with Cradily decks is that it takes forever to get things rolling. Using Cradily in Expanded, the quickest you could pull off Life Explosion was turn two, but that required getting really lucky and drawing godly. It almost never happened. This seems like it would be way more consistent and not as clunky, but you still have to wait til turn 2. It would be cool if you could get Life Explosion off turn one, but I don't know if that's doable. Waiting til turn three to really start doing anything isn't cool against stuff like Plasma and Genesect decks. I think your best bet is to play it like Mewbox with a Cradily tech rather than like a Cradily deck. That way if Cradily doesn't happen, you can just fall back on Mew, and that's okay. Now some things to consider about your actual decklist.

Life Explosion only gets Stage 2's, so you can't play Accelgor. Baring that, its attack shuffles him back into the deck, and that's really counterintuitive since you couldn't just get him back out with Shelmet. If that's really what you want to do, you're better off playing regular Accelgor.

Empoleon is a great choice for Life Explosion. Great attack, even better Ability that will boost your consistency. Kinklang BW is worth considering as well. Beyond that some of the old Primes might be good too. Magnezone, Machamp (can't remember exactly what Machamp did, but I think it's Ability was relevant). You need to take full advantage of Life Explosion when deck building, because if say you use it to only get Empoleon on the field, or only whatever, then you could have just played the deck with evolving Basics instead of Cradily. Find 2 Stage 2's that pair really well or cover the other's weakness and make that your core. I think that's where you'll have the most success.
 
I've just deleted a number of posts in this thread that were getting way uncivil and out of hand. We're all TCG fans behind the screen, so let's treat each other like one! I don't want to see it happen again, otherwise further warnings will be handed out. ~bbninjas
 
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