San Antonio Review and the Return of Pidgey Control

[PMJ]

My last article covered the Charizard ex list that took first and fourth place at San Antonio Regionals, but there is still a lot to talk about. San Antonio was the largest TPCi tournament in history, and it sets the tone for the metagame going forward. Charizard ex was the most popular deck at the event, with nearly a 20% meta share in Day 1 and further increasing that into Day 2 — this is nearing pre-rotation Lugia VSTAR levels of representation, which is almost unfathomable because the current format has so many strong and viable decks. In its prime, Lugia VSTAR was arguably the best deck, and some even said that it was the only competitive deck.
Our metagame has been rather diverse for awhile now, so it was...

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[Nuclear]

It is weird to see charizard making up such a large meta share, as it does have quite a lot of bad matchups with its low ability to tech for them. The thing about lugia was that it could tech for every other good deck in the format very easily. Charizard can’t do that, nor does it have a built in draw engine like Mew and Lost zone decks, but it’s still somehow doing great and definitely something I’ll have to find a way to tech for going into charlotte.

 

[Cacho]

It is weird to see charizard making up such a large meta share, as it does have quite a lot of bad matchups with its low ability to tech for them. The thing about lugia was that it could tech for every other good deck in the format very easily. Charizard can’t do that, nor does it have a built in draw engine like Mew and Lost zone decks, but it’s still somehow doing great and definitely something I’ll have to find a way to tech for going into charlotte.

Paralyze loop em' after forcing their only switch outs early. Instant win

 

[Owbione]

I would love to see that, if you can pull it off? ( In standard )