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Expanded Standard Nagandel GX/ultra beasts

Tikitorch30

Tikitorch30

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Hello all! I was just looking for some input on my initial Nagandel GX/ultra beast decklist. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pokemon- 18

4× Poipole (LOT)
2× Naganadel GX (UNM)
2× Naganadel GX (FBL)
1× Ditto prism
1× Xurkitree (UNM)
1× Nihilego (LOT)
1× Buzzwole (FBL)
1× Celesteela (CES)
2× Kartana (UNB)
1× Persian GX (UNB)
1× Mew (UNB)
1× Pheromosa & Buzzwole GX (UNB)

Trainers- 31

4× Mysterious Treasure
4× Ultra Recon Squad
3× Ultra Space
4× Pokemon Communication
2× Cherish Ball
1× Lusamine prism
4× Custom Catcher
1× Beast Ball
2× Brock's Grit
1× Lance prism
2× Ultra Forest Kartenvoy
3× Switch

Energy- 11

1× Beast Energy
4× Rainhow Energy
4× Triple Acceleration Energy
2× Unit Energy (P/L/M)

Total- 60 Cards
 
So why is this deck better/as good as other existing archetypes and why should we try to build Beast Box?

None of these pokemon can really take a hit (except for Buzzmosa but that's weak against fire) in a meta where most things want to hit 240-270 as soon as possible and wih this list you will only be hitting 100-120 and you can't have any healing. The only thing you can consistently hit for weakness is MewMew (if they don't have Jirachi-GX, that is) and you can't even OHKO it. Giratina has a field day against you because it OHKOs psychic Naganadel + all the baby ultra beasts and you have no ways of OHKOing it apart from dragon Naganadel which is very expensive for 1 prize. And you're a stage 1 GX deck which already puts you at a disadvantage against fast, hard-hitting decks. Not to mention that this list has really sub-par options when it comes to drawing cards. How does this even get set up and how does it find TBE/Custom Catcher/others on the turns when it needs to?

The concept of Beast Box has always been a trap and that won't change, especially with that Alolan Persian-GX coming in the next set and whatnot.
 
The concept is similar to Zoroark GX that just won NAIC. Use Naganadel GX from UNM to snipe a tag team on the bench/use ability to have large hands to counter, use Naganadel GX from FBL to reset prizes and then draw out said previous tag team for knockout and game. The archetype worked for Zoroark...how is this much different?
 
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