Team Magma Deck

ClubDumpster

ClubDumpster

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I'm looking at building another deck and for some reason I can't shake the desire to make something with the Team Aqua/Magma cards that came out. I tried running an Aqua on TCG online and it was alright, but now I'm focused on Magma to see if something can come of them. Any suggestions for cards to use? It seems that I need to put damage on people quick and that Aggron can hit everyone hard if they have damage on em. So I was thinking 3-1-3 of him with rare candy. Have the Magma secret base to put damage quick as well as maybe Frozen City. (Hear me out) I know it'll damage me as well but I don't feel this deck is made to play it safe. So what are some quick ways to get things done?
 
Sadly, you're not gonna get far doing pure aqua or magma... but here's a few decks to look at:

Team Aqua's Muk / Forretress / Beartic
Idea is to use Team Aqua's Muk and Team Aqua's Secret Base to increase your opponent's retreat cost so that Forretress and Beartic can hit harder. Would suggest 4 DCE since the entire deck can use it, plus some Psychic Energy in case you're ever stuck attacking with Muk for some reason. There's also a Jellicent you could use, but it's about to rotate out so if you play standard, at this point there's no longer any reason to get it.. Expanded, however, go ahead and throw in 3-4 lasers with it.

Camerupt-EX / Team Magma's Camerupt
I've never looked at the deck myself so can't say much, but its more popular than the Muk deck and I heard stories on it being consistent. But like I said, I don't personally know the deck, so i'd suggest looking for this deck somewhere and seeing what others say about it.
 
I made a successful Jellicent (aka Team Aqua's Muk)/Beartic/Foretress deck before the ban of Lysandres Trump which performed quite well. Unfortunately, the deck has become slower and difficult to keep up with other deck tiers, and is even more difficult to get the necessary 1-hit KOs if you discard a vital Jellicent (or Muk) early.
 
As others have said, running a straight Team Magma (or Team Aqua) deck is pretty difficult. They really benefit from outside help, at which point they kinda stop being a Team Magma deck. :p

That said, the most fun Magma deck I've made was a Team Magma's Zangoose deck, who hits 20x for each Magma Pokemon on your bench. With the Sky Field stadium, you can hit up to 160 for 3 colorless, or 180 with a Muscle Band for a sure-thing-OHKO against EX. Its biggest issue is getting it set up, though, since a lot of the Magma basics are pretty weak and easy to pick off. But I had a lot of fun with it back when DC first hit the scene, even though it lost pretty much all the time. :p Maybe you could get it to work? :D
 
Yeah ya'll have some good points. I've been trying to think of something quick and not a lot of setup. I run a pretty solid steel deck and one that thing is moving it's tough to beat, but it sounds like both of these decks will have some substantial setup before damage is being done. Which most decks now these days are so quick it would probably get chewed up.
 
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