Sacramento, Stuttgart, and Surging Sparks Shape the Meta

[PMJ]

Hello everyone! Recently we’ve seen two Regionals take place in the new Surging Sparks format, and there were certainly some interesting results. Today I want to take a look at all of the major decks in this format, and discuss their positions in the meta going forward, as well as share my personal opinions on various lists and potential card inclusions.
Sacramento kicked things off in this new format, and the Top 8 seemed to perfectly showcase the duality of the metagame. In finals was a mirror match between two Miraidon ex decks. I was not too surprised by this, as Miraidon got significantly powered up by the new set, utilizing the combination of Pikachu ex and Area Zero Underdepths to...

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[piyuv]

Raging bolt is pretty weak against single prize decks, which seems to be on the rise. With bolt, I only played against 1 regidrago in stuttgart, but 3 single prizers. Sadly could not make day 2 (4-2-2)

 

[MarlinRimes]

Klawf gang rise up

 

[Steen]

Regidrago is under close contention against Miraidon from what I've seen but plenty of single prize leading decks are on the rise. We're going into the final months of Pokemon V in Standard, so I doubt other VSTARs will get a chance.

 

[TheKitKatProject]

The rest of Top 8 looks like something straight from a random League Cup:

I can’t imagine what Grant thinks of the Perth Top 8

 

[kourasmeni]

As a Regidrago player I find the Miraidon matchup an extremely tough one tbh. It has very high speed similar to Raging Bolt, slightly less power, but a lot more flexibility

 

[angooseburger]

As a Regidrago player I find the Miraidon matchup an extremely tough one tbh. It has very high speed similar to Raging Bolt, slightly less power, but a lot more flexibility

you can double kyurem or double rad zard them. They can only really knockout a vstar once with raichu so your 2nd vstar is safe for two turns.

 

[TriggerFalcon]

Thanks for your blog! I really enjoy reading it!

 

[Charmaster:)]

Raging bolt is pretty weak against single prize decks, which seems to be on the rise. With bolt, I only played against 1 regidrago in stuttgart, but 3 single prizers. Sadly could not make day 2 (4-2-2)

Which single prize decks did you play against?