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Mirage Valley (Mewtwo EX / Gardevoir / Gallade)

ale.543

ale.543

Bending Lightning
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Pokemon
  • 1 Gallede (Powerful Storm)
  • 2 Gardevoir (Psychic Mirage)
  • 2 Kirlia
  • 4 Ralts
  • 3 Mewtwo EX
  • 1 Sigilyph (Safeguard)
  • 1 Meloetta (Echoed Voice)
  • 1 Holon Castform (Only used as energy, double rainbow, and added in place of a basic energy)
Total: 15 Pokemon

Trainers
  • 2 Dimension Valley (Had Monlight Stadium, but changed it for strategy since I also added Mystery energy)
  • 4 Sycamore
  • 3 Professor Oak's New Theory
  • 3 Skyla
  • 4 Rare Candy
  • 2 Evosoda
  • 2 Pokemon Collector
  • 3 Gust of Wind
  • 2 Professors Letter
  • 1 Rock Guard (Ace-Spec)
  • 2 Energy Exchanger
  • 2 Ultra Ball
Total: 30 Trainers

Energy
  • 8 Psychic Energy
  • 3 Double Colorless Energy
  • 4 Mystery Energy
Total: 15 Energy

Strategy

Get Gardevoir with Psychic Mirage in the bench as soon as posible (hence 4 Rare candy, 2 Evosoda, and 7 hand refreshers)... Mystery energy will give the ability to move around as this is a mono colored deck and all pokemon are at or below two retreat cost...
One strategy this deck has is that since psychic mirage makes my [P] energy count as double if I get the Dimension Valley Stadium out as well, all my Pokemon (excluding Gardevoir) will be able to use any attack with only one energy.
Another strategy, although less likely to use, is that Gallede's Powerful Storm attack says 20 times the energy attached to all my pokemon, so indirectly fuel Powerful Storm to attack while charging other Pokemon...
As for attackers, my bench would feature a Mewtwo Ex (main attacker), Sigilyph (which is invulnerable to Ex's), Meloetta (cheap, both in energy for attack capacity with Echoed voice and only one price card taken if KO'd)...

Other Pk to consider:
[*] 1 Giratina (Hex)
[*] 1 Giratina LvX

-> Had considered these solely because of Giratina LvX's ability and attack
-> Enough hand refreshers?

-> Gardevoir is the most important card of the deck.

Any advice is appreciated :)...
 
RE: Mirage Valley (Mewtwo Ex/ Gardevoir/ Gallede)

Suggestions:
+1 Rare Candy
-3 Evosoda
+1 Pokemon Collector
+3 N
-1 Pokemon Communication
-1 Ralts
+1 Double Colorless
-6 Psychic Energy
+3 Ultra Ball
+1 Sycamore
-1 Rock Guard
+1 Computer Search
+2 Level Ball
-2 Energy Exchanger

Level ball to get out Ralts Kirlia and sigilyph ultra ball can help you get mewtwo and gardevoir Evosoda isn't as helpful as rare candy computer search is by far the best ace spec
 
RE: Mirage Valley (Mewtwo Ex/ Gardevoir/ Gallede)

PokeBoss123 said:
Suggestions:
+1 Rare Candy
-3 Evosoda
+1 Pokemon Collector
+3 N
-1 Pokemon Communication
-1 Ralts
+1 Double Colorless
-6 Psychic Energy
+3 Ultra Ball
+1 Sycamore
-1 Rock Guard
+1 Computer Search
+2 Level Ball
-2 Energy Exchanger

Level ball to get out Ralts Kirlia and sigilyph ultra ball can help you get mewtwo and gardevoir Evosoda isn't as helpful as rare candy computer search is by far the best ace spec
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Sorry for taking so long to reply. Thank you for your advice, it's been really helpful in making this a better deck. I already edited the decklist to show the changes I've implemented, I got to play test a little and some of the changes I didn't implement were because I wanted to give Skyla a better reach.

For example, say I have a Skyla and a basic energy at hand along with some other cards, I can use Skyla to search for an Ultra Ball and use it to find a new pokemon to power up with the energy I have or I can search for Energy Exchanger with Skyla and use it to exchange my basic energy for a Mystery Energy which in this deck gives whichever pokemon I put it on free retreat.
 
Since you've got rock guard as your ace spec, I really think you could drop a couple rare candies and use +2 junk arm. Lots of trainers you could be reusing, rare candy included.
 
I would cut Rock Guard for Computer Search for consistency. DEFINITELY play Max Potions in this. Psydrive for one Energy, and heal off all the damage for nothing. Got to talk through the idea with some of John Roberts's friends; it sounds really good. Sigilyph Psychic for one Energy is pretty cool, so I'd play two of those. Also 4 Dimension Valley to win the Stadium war. I need to test this as my deck choice for Expanded.
 
I actually built this a while ago, and it's really cool. I was going to play it for a tournament the next day until it suddenly stopped working on me. For some reason it has some bad consistency issues. But perhaps it was just my list, or poor shuffling. Speaking of my list, here is mine for reference:

Pokemon

  • 4 Mewtwo EX
    2 Chandelure EX
    3 Gardevoir (Emerging Powers)
    1 Kirlia
    3 Ralts
Subtotal: 13

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums

  • 4 Professor Juniper
    4 N
    3 Skyla
    2 Lysandre
    1 Lysandre's Trump Card
    3 Ultra Ball
    2 Pokemon Communication
    3 Rare Candy
    3 Muscle Band
    3 Dimensional Valley
    4 Max Potion
    2 Switch
    1 Energy Retrieval
    1 Professor's Letter
    3 VS Seeker
    1 Computer Search
Subtotal: 40

Energy

  • 7 Psychic Energy
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Hope I helped! :D
 
Sorry for the delay in my answers, I've been occupied the last couple of days. Nevertheless...

gromitxt--> To be honest I'm a little skeptical about using Junk Arm, although I see what you are getting at, think I might just use some proxies to see how it works. Thanks for the advice.

Kecleon-X--> Thanks, it does help, it gives me ideas for posible variations and new strategies. Out of curiosity, what were the issues you faced? Couldn't make an effective setup in the games due to lack of specific cards?

Mora--> First off, Thanks for the advice. My problem with Sigilyph is that he is a little hard to start with, a point at which I'm not set up yet, so I use just one in order to search for him when I need him instead of having him appear in my beginning hand. I'll give Computer Search further consideration however I without a doubt like the Max Potion and more Stadium ideas, can't seem to decide on what to exchange for them though, any suggestions?
Also, since you'll probably be playing a deck that's more similar to mine than the one Kecleon-X provided please let me know how it goes and wether you find issues or space for improvement in the deck. I'll post my experience here once I get more play testing done.
Ps. I don't know any of the people you've mentioned, but it always makes me feel Good when I get complemented on a deck, so Thanks!! :D :) :)
 
No problem!

But my problem with this deck is that, even though some games I got the waifu set up on the bench pretty well, it was getting the Dimensional Valley, too. Hitting both of those wasn't the easiest, and I think that perhaps dropping a Max Potion for a Dimensional Valley might help solve.

But here's the thing -- this is Unlimited, not Expanded. In this, you should play Base Set Mewtwo with Barrier. For two Psychic (i.e. one Psychic) you prevent all effects of attacks, including damage done to Mewtwo by your opponent's attacks. Unfortunately, you discard that Energy, but it's still good in this. In fact, I might run several if I you, just 'cause.
 
I'm with Kecleon on one more Dimension Valley, since having it active makes the whole deck so much more powerful. The closest deck to this that I play uses Gengar EX and Mega-Gengar EX, just because it's so much fun to phantom gate with one energy. But I include Mewtwo EX in that deck as well, and I have to say that attaching a DCE is kind of bittersweet: it powers up Mewtwo but doesn't take advantage of psychic mirage. I'm tempted to remove DCE completely, especially with the amount of enhanced hammer play I'm seeing.

One completely different suggestion: I really like Twins (SO much better than teammates) in stage-2 unlimited decks that depend on rare candy. So nice to be able to turn an early KO of one of your basics into a rare candy + gardevoir in a future hand.
 
Actually our lists aren't that far off. Granted, I haven't really gotten around to testing it and perfecting it. I've only played one game with it, but this is a rough list I put together to test with.

Pokemon: 13

  • 3 Mewtwo EX
    2 Sigilyph
    3-2-3 Gardevoir
Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 39

  • 4 Professor Juniper
    4 N
    3 Skyla
    2 Lysandre
    1 Colress
    1 AZ
    1 Lysandre's Trump Card

    3 Max Potion
    3 Rare Candy
    3 Ultra Ball
    2 Muscle Band
    2 Pokemon Communication
    2 Switch
    2 VS Seeker
    1 Computer Search
    1 Professor's Letter

    4 Dimension Valley
Energy: 8

  • 8 Psychic Energy

Hope this helps!
 
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