US Nationals 2012
- Thread starter King Arceus
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We keep seeing these cool decklists and every time i see something like that i try to figure out the philosophy behind it.
4 Supporters: As long as you get the resources you need by other means, such as Victory Medal, Dual Ball, Energy Search, etc., you don't need supporters. The deck is CMT because it's fast enough to get the edge on Vileplume.
No Junk Arm: Four spots can be a lot and you sometimes have to discard valuable cards. Instead of Junk Arm, you can put in one-ofs or cards like the aforementioned Victory Medal. These cards may keep the opponent guessing, have them preparing for something that will not happen, and leave them very surprised. I think when the guy said he played no Junk Arms, people said, "WHAT? This has to be a fluke!" just like a lot of you and he was able to use the surprise factor to his advantage.
4 Supporters: As long as you get the resources you need by other means, such as Victory Medal, Dual Ball, Energy Search, etc., you don't need supporters. The deck is CMT because it's fast enough to get the edge on Vileplume.
No Junk Arm: Four spots can be a lot and you sometimes have to discard valuable cards. Instead of Junk Arm, you can put in one-ofs or cards like the aforementioned Victory Medal. These cards may keep the opponent guessing, have them preparing for something that will not happen, and leave them very surprised. I think when the guy said he played no Junk Arms, people said, "WHAT? This has to be a fluke!" just like a lot of you and he was able to use the surprise factor to his advantage.
The guy who played only 4 Supporters had a huge reliance on Smeargle, and he chose to only run 4 of his own to make his opponent's Smeargle have no affect and slow them down. It was a great meta call considering almost every deck in the format has a big reliance on Smeargle. Victory Medal is bad. Nobody played it/should have played it, it's too inconsistent to be good. You also don't really surprise someone by not playing a card, not playing something adds no surprise factor and unlike with a pokemon the opponent wouldn't do anything different in their strategy if they thought you played it.
^ Wow thats a fail. And yet he STILL won......wow.
RogueChomp said:
maybe his list had Raikou?
idk, either he was just able to set up attackers really fast, he had raikou, or luck (probably a bit of everything) regardless it was a really interesting nats and I'm looking forward to worlds ^^
*Builds Darkrai/Hydregion as soon as is humanly possible*