Standard Next-Gen Fairy Toolbox (Aromatisse / Techs)

[Lanstar]

I'm quite fond of the Aromatisse Fairy Toolbox strategy, so I thought up a new deck list for one for this new Standard Format. Even now, I don't think this type of deck is dead competitively.

Pokemon: 17

• 3 Spritzee (XY-Base)
• 2 Aromatisse
• 1 Malamar EX
• 1 Blaziken-EX
• 1 Sceptile-EX
• 1 Aegislash-EX
• 1 Seismitoad-EX
• 1 Manectric-EX
• 1 M Manectric-EX
• 1 Xerneas-EX
• 1 Gengar-EX
• 1 Regirock (AT Promo)
• 1 Regirock (AOR)
• 1 Regice

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 32

• 4 Professor Sycamore
• 2 Shauna
• 2 AZ
• 2 Pokemon Fan Club
  
• 1 Lysandre
• 1 Xerosic
• 1 Korrina

• 4 VS Seeker
• 3 Trainer's Mail
• 2 Evosoda
• 2 Professor's Letter
• 1 Sacred Ash
• 1 Energy Recycler
• 2 Muscle Band

• 4 Fairy Garden

Energy: 11

• 4 Rainbow Energy
  
• 1 Double Colorless Energy
• 6 Fairy Energy

Strategy:

This fairy toolbox relies heavily on Fairy Garden for maneuverability, and it does need to conserve bench space so to have the right attackers on the playing field. Thus, Hoopa EX and Shaymin EX aren't put in for that reason. But the wonderful thing is many of the attackers here yield very good powers for not that much energy, so you don't need to use DCE very much:

• Malamar-EX: Very common in toolboxes to induce sleep.
• Sceptile-EX: Has synergy with Malamar in this deck, dealing 130 with the sleep induced.
• Blaziken-EX: Its first move can bring back even Rainbow Energies from the discard pile.
• Aegislash-EX: Walls special energy attackers.
• Seismitoad-EX: Locks items and slows the game pace.
• Manectric-EX: Deals with Item Holders, hits very common weaknesses.
• M Manectric-EX: A very niche tech to get energy back. But I might take it out...
• Xerneas-EX: Major fairy attacker to counter dragons.
• Gengar-EX: Hits psychic types, can switch out as well.
• Regirock (AOR): This is my favorite fighting type attacker to counter M Tyranitar and M Manectric.
• Regice: I should tell all: People often misplay against this one's attack that blocks EX attackers!

Note many other things:

• In place of Max Potion, AZ is to be used instead. Somewhat clunky healing, though...
• As I go through higher tiers in the PTCG Online, I'm finding a lot of usage of Trainers Mail, and I, too have found this card incredibly useful for this rotation.
• Korrina is quite a fun tech to get the Regirocks and needed items out quickly.
• This deck relies a lot on deck search rather than pure draw, so it can be somewhat slow to set up. Slowing the pace of the opponent is quite important.
• Hex Maniac and Lysandre are the main issues to deal against.

Any suggestions and feedback is welcome!

 

[Hornleach1]

The pokemon line up looks good except the AOR Regirock which I would replace with another DCE. I would suggest replacing the Evosodas for 2 Level balls so you can set up Aromatisse more quickly. I also don't think energy recycler is required as you would be unlikely to get 5 basic energy in discard so possibly Energy retrieval would be more useful. I cant think of any more changes and overall I think this deck would do well if given enough testing.

 

[ejorange]

Disagreeing with Hornleach1, I wouldn't take out Regirock; it is certainly very useful against manectric. However, agreeing with Hornleach1, I think you should have more DCE. Also, I think that you could take out one of the AZ and put in battle compressor instead (compressor + VS Seeker is basically a supporter search that you can use that turn, and lets you get Xerosic and lysandre later in the game when u want to draw other stuff). If you don't like battle compressor super scoop up might be useful instead because you can search it out with korrina. I'm personally not a big Pokémon Fan Club fan, and I would suggest taking it out if you want to add other stuff, but others have found it useful.

 

[Yo-yos]

I would reduce your EX line by 1 half the amount, it's great to have cards that counter for weakness, but having a solid and reliable attacker is better then hitting for type. Also with only 2 pokemon search cards and alot of 1 of's you run the risk of never getting what you need turn 1-6 leaving you at alot of disadvantages. consistency is not just how well your trainers work for you but your attackers work for you as well.

 

[bradon]

I'd try to find room for a Revive. It's not a super spectacular card, but you run a lot of one ofs and currently the only way to get back a knocked out attacker is with Sacred Ash + Fan Club/Ultra Ball.

 

[Lanstar]

Thank you all for your ideas!

I would reduce your EX line by 1 half the amount, it's great to have cards that counter for weakness, but having a solid and reliable attacker is better then hitting for type. Also with only 2 pokemon search cards and alot of 1 of's you run the risk of never getting what you need turn 1-6 leaving you at alot of disadvantages. consistency is not just how well your trainers work for you but your attackers work for you as well.

There are plenty of search cards in pokemon fan club, evosoda, and korrina in this deck. Though I could switch the evosodas for Ultra/Level balls if I decided not to run M Manectric.

Also, I think you don't get the point of the Toolbox: It's designed so you first scout out what your opponent will use in their deck so you can counter it with the many card options in your own deck - so you will be able to reliably counter them. The diversity is quite intentional in that regard. I kind of took this inspiration from a pokebeach article quite a while back.

Disagreeing with Hornleach1, I wouldn't take out Regirock; it is certainly very useful against manectric. However, agreeing with Hornleach1, I think you should have more DCE. Also, I think that you could take out one of the AZ and put in battle compressor instead (compressor + VS Seeker is basically a supporter search that you can use that turn, and lets you get Xerosic and lysandre later in the game when u want to draw other stuff). If you don't like battle compressor super scoop up might be useful instead because you can search it out with korrina. I'm personally not a big Pokémon Fan Club fan, and I would suggest taking it out if you want to add other stuff, but others have found it useful.

I think the compressor idea could be quite useful in that regard! It might even be useful for discarding Pokemon that are weak against the opponent's strategy too... maybe I'll make room for 1 or two.

I might add just one more DCE. The issue has been that they're so easily hammered off, and they cannot be transferred like the other energy.

Now, about the Fan Club: It's quite useful for this deck to find the 2 Pokemon you need automatically, even if it does cost a supporter slot, given there are a lot of 1-of's in this deck. It might feel awkward for many to use, as we're so used to draw support as the major way to develop strategies.

I'd try to find room for a Revive. It's not a super spectacular card, but you run a lot of one ofs and currently the only way to get back a knocked out attacker is with Sacred Ash + Fan Club/Ultra Ball.

Revive sounds great for me to use! I might try to tech in one or two somehow.

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I will try to test some modifications for this deck and get back to this deck list sometime.

 

[Yo-yos]

The point of a tool box deck is to have lots of different types and options yes but having more amounts for main attackers and less for support, but having to many 1 of for all of your support and attack based cards reduces the consistency of your deck regardless, 10+ one ofs = no consistency regardless of your search options because it doesn't matter how good the typing is when you only have one of those cards when all they have to do is lysandre up the card that produces the most amount of threat or has the most amount of energy on it and shut it down before you can utilize anything else to be a threat. When you want a consistent start is not about your search options its also about what your willing to drop to ensure that start.

Please don't talk to people like they don't know the decklist either.

 

[Kecleon-X]

All right, gentlemen, calm down.

Lanstar, Yo-yos is just trying to help. Even I can take a look at your decklist and see that there are a bucketload of one-of Pokemon. Trust me when I say, that won't exactly help consistency. Plus, the fact that you seem to have no Ultra Ball or any other search than Pokemon Fan Club for those EXs only serves to accentuate this fact. (Evosoda doesn't count because you're trying for basic Pokemon, and your one Korrina only finds two Pokemon in your deck) You're list, regardless of the stratagem, is going to behave oddly and he was merely attempting to aid you in that regard. He has valid points -- your entire deck shouldn't have to suffer because you want to counter a type. Focus on the ones you want to counter the most, and beef up those lines. Regardless of what you want the deck to do, you're going to have to compromise to the 60 card limit. Now, regardless of that, it is your deck and you get to decide the advice of which you heed.

However, that being said, Yo-yos, leave the modding to us. Valid points or not, your coarseness is simply not necessary. I know you're trying to help, but calm down. I don't care if you think he's denser than a singularity, but it's his deck and it's his choice. Don't bark at him for disagreeing with you.

So. With that settled, I am going to return to the Memebyss.

 

[Lanstar]

If I offended anyone for any reason, please forgive me - no intention about doing that. I just haven't gotten back to editing this deck list, even though I've done several modifications to the one I'm using right now.

Anyways, from more testing I'm finding it tricky making this deck work, due to the incredible diversity of viable decks I've faced in this format. Since there have not been many overcentralizing strategies in this metagame, this type of deck of multiple tech counters cannot seem to counter each strategy I see this time around. Until there are a narrow enough particular strategies deemed overpowering, I think a basic fairy deck with only a few techs might be better for right now.

 

[ejorange]

Well now that the Xerneas from XY8 is a thing, you might want to use those as all-around backup attackers; with a full bench of 5 with a band it does a solid 180 (assuming the benched guys are all different types); with skyfield and band it can go up to 270 (with Ancient trait Golurk it would go up to 300)

 

[Draaka]

I don't think this deck is super competitive at the moment, but the second Max Potion reprint hits I think this deck will likely fly to tier 1/2 pretty easily. There are so many good options for a toolbox deck atm.