Reviving Sablezard — Still Viable With New Techs

[PMJ]

Hello, PokeBeach readers! I’m back with another Pokemon TCG article, this time focusing on the Lost Box deck Sableye / Radiant Charizard, better known as Sablezard. Can one of the first Lost Box variants to achieve competitive success still perform well in the current Standard format?
As we conclude another year filled with tournaments, these days between Christmas and New Year offer a chance to slow down and reflect on the competitive season. It’s a time to correct mistakes, think of new solutions, and identify unknown or forgotten decks that could thrive in the current format. During this period of reflection, Sablezard caught my attention. While it has sporadically produced results in past tournaments, it’s been a while since it consistently matched the success of a Tier 1 deck.
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[Nuclear]

Luckily though, most decks don’t play jirachi so you often don’t need to worry about it at all. With Iron hands, you just have to maintain a good prize trade, which can be hard to do because you have to take a big knockout almost every turn or set up to take two knockouts in one turn.

 

[kya]

This is my favorite deck in this current format, will probably be what I end up playing to Charlotte. It has a decent match up into Giratina and tina doesn't seem to be disappearing anytime soon after this recent win at Portland.