Hey guys, new member here. I'm fairly new to competitive TCG as well. The deck I'm going to list is my current deck pre-furious fists rotation. I'm looking to keep the same sort of idea/theme, but with the loss of Prism Energies, I need a little bit of help making it more solid. What should I change, in addition to removing the Level Ball, Super Rod and Prism energies, to make the deck stay relatively the same but more solid overall? I play tested simply by removing the Prisms, replacing them with Fairy energy, and replacing Super Rod with Sacred Ash, but I was having issues where if even a single of my pokemon with a Rainbow attached died, I ended up struggling to recover. Thoughts?
Pokemon:
Strategy:
Strategy is to get Xerneas out, start Geomancy-ing up the field and get as many energy/attackers out as fast as possible. Fairy Garden gives free retreat with Darkrai doubling as a single free retreater for other decks that run Fairy. As a tool box deck, the only two types I'm not running are Fighting and Grass (no good grass types, and Landorus-EX is too expensive.) Cobalion-EX is present in lieu of Enhanced Hammers, but I might replace that with a normal Cobalion for Energy Press to help against other fairy decks (Cobalion + Muscle Band KOs Xerneas-EX with 3 energy on it). Although Victini, Jirachi and Emolga are liabilities on my bench, they are only placed there if I absolutely have to or if I plan on using them to OHKO something. Emolga one shots Yveltal-EX, so any deck that uses it with a large amount of energy attached will quickly regret it. Victini is there as my fire type attacker. I considered using Moltres but Moltres is a dead card in most other matches, whereas if I am forced to start Victini, I can at least use it as a Mini-Xerneas. Victory Piece is my Ace spec because god knows I don't want to drop $15 on a computer search. Latias-EX is my answer for Pyroar decks, as Rayquaza isn't exactly my style. Suicune is my Safeguarder. I used to run Keldeo-EX but I found he wasn't very useful, having used him only once against a Mega Charizard deck, in which case Suicune can at least negate its damage.
Pokemon:
2x Spritzee XY
2x Aromatisse XY
1x Victini-EX LTR
1x Latias-EX PLF
3x Xerneas XY
1x Mewtwo-EX BW45
1x Darkrai-EX BW46
1x Yveltal-EX XY
2x Xerneas-EX XY
1x Jirachi-EX PLB
1x Suicune PLB
1x Emolga-EX XY
1x Cobalion-EX PLS
2x Fairy Garden
2x Muscle Band
4x Professor Juniper
3x Colress
3x N
2x Skyla
1x Pokemon Fan Club
2x Startling Megaphone
2x Max Potion
1x Lysandre
1x Super Rod
1x Level Ball
4x Ultra Ball
1x Victory Piece
4x Rainbow Energy
4x Prism Energy
6x Fairy Energy
Strategy:
Strategy is to get Xerneas out, start Geomancy-ing up the field and get as many energy/attackers out as fast as possible. Fairy Garden gives free retreat with Darkrai doubling as a single free retreater for other decks that run Fairy. As a tool box deck, the only two types I'm not running are Fighting and Grass (no good grass types, and Landorus-EX is too expensive.) Cobalion-EX is present in lieu of Enhanced Hammers, but I might replace that with a normal Cobalion for Energy Press to help against other fairy decks (Cobalion + Muscle Band KOs Xerneas-EX with 3 energy on it). Although Victini, Jirachi and Emolga are liabilities on my bench, they are only placed there if I absolutely have to or if I plan on using them to OHKO something. Emolga one shots Yveltal-EX, so any deck that uses it with a large amount of energy attached will quickly regret it. Victini is there as my fire type attacker. I considered using Moltres but Moltres is a dead card in most other matches, whereas if I am forced to start Victini, I can at least use it as a Mini-Xerneas. Victory Piece is my Ace spec because god knows I don't want to drop $15 on a computer search. Latias-EX is my answer for Pyroar decks, as Rayquaza isn't exactly my style. Suicune is my Safeguarder. I used to run Keldeo-EX but I found he wasn't very useful, having used him only once against a Mega Charizard deck, in which case Suicune can at least negate its damage.