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Standard Y Blades (Baby Yveltal / Golurk / Zoroark)

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cardgjammer

Aspiring Trainer
Member
Pokémon: 19
  • 2 Remoraid BKT 31
  • 2 Octillery BKT 33
  • 3 Yveltal XY 78
  • 2 Zorua BKT 89
  • 2 Zoroark BKT 91
  • 2 Golett AOR 34
  • 2 Golurk AOR 35
  • 2 Eevee AOR 63
  • 2 Jolteon AOR 26
Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: 31
  • 3 Dimension Valley
  • 1 Sacred Ash
  • 4 VS Seeker
  • 1 Lysandre
  • 4 Ultra Ball
  • 3 Battle Compressor
  • 2 Focus Sash
  • 1 Xerosic
  • 1 Judge
  • 1 Hex Maniac
  • 2 Float Stone
  • 2 Professor Birch's Observations
  • 4 Professor Sycamore
  • 2 Muscle Band
Energy: 10
  • 4 Double Colorless Energy
  • 6 Darkness Energy
Strategy:

Start with Yveltal and Power up Golurk, and use its double type ability(one that allows it to double as a fighting-type, meaning it can utilize Focus Sash's effect of enabling the pokemon to survive would-be 1HKOs at full health) to exploit weakness. Weak to Lightning? Use Eeveelution power of Jolteon's ability to add lightning to Golurk's typing, and hit the lightning-weak pokemon hard. Should the opposing bench get full five, hold the power-upping and send in Zoroark, attach a DCE to it, and make the opponent pay w/ Mind Jack. Baby Yveltal and Remoraid/Octillery are both there to aid in powering up the central pokemons(especially Octillery, which can use its ability to draw up to five to hand, hopefully resulting in drawing energy to power Golurk), and/or do some damage to foe(Baby Yveltal).

Note: This deck won me a lot of Versus matches lately, even won me a tourney! It only lost to my then-lack of knowledge of a card not used often: Haxorus w/ Swords Dance. Its little use surprised me, as I didn't face it before then, I didn't figure out a counter until too little, too late to avoid that one loss. But at least I got redemption by beating a similar deck using the same pokemon as the one I lost to, as I learned how to counter it then, as Haxorus was proven no longer a surprise to me...

^ What do you think of my deck? Any suggestions or comments?

Change Log:

Monday, January 11, 2016:

Pokemon:
-2 Shaymin-ex
-2 Mewtwo-EX
-2 M Mewtwo-EX

+2 Remoraid
+2 Octillery
+2 Eevee
+2 Jolteon

Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums:
-3 Shadow Circle
-3 Trainers' Mail
-2 Mewtwo Spirit Link
-1 Judge

+3 Dimension Valley
+2 Professor Birch's Observations
+1 Professor Sycamore
+1 Sacred Ash

Energy:
No changes
 
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I love the addition of Golurk in this deck! However, I lack to see much energy acceleration. Golurk has a very high attack cost, so you may power up mewtwo or golurk, but you need to find a way to get both powered up. Yveltal is good, but doesn't synergize well with golurk. Maybe baby xerneas would be the better option
 
I actually built a very similar deck to this last night, except instead of mewtwo I used eeveelutions (since golurk can literally hit almost everything in this format for weakness thanks to them), dimension valley, and a blacksmith engine combined with entei AT. I really love your yveltal energy acceleration idea though, and I'll probably switch it to that instead of the blacksmith engine. Baby yveltal is a strong play against night march, which is something golurk struggles with, so you definitely have something there.
 
First of all, one of my Poke pals went undefeated in the Swiss rounds at a recent City Champonship with his version of Golurk-Eevelutions. It's a really strong deck.

IMO, the M Mewtwo EX (BRT 64) is underwhelming since it does not hit for Weakness. I think those 2 slots, as well as the corresponding Links slots can be replaced with more effective cards. For example a 2-2 Jolteon (Ability) line or an additional 1-1 Golurk or 1-1 Zoroark line could be quite helpful.

Also, other alternatives for the aforementioned slots would be:

More card-draw Supporters. IMO, the 2 Judge and 3 Professor Sycamore, despite the 2 Shaymin EX, are woefully insufficient, especially if you are Item-locked or Ability-locked when you need to play either Items or Shaymin EX.

Dimension Valley. This will reduce C energy requirement for your Psychic Pokemon attacks.

Fighting Stadium. To help boost Golurk's damage output against EX Pokemon.

Hawlucha and Fighting energy. Free retreater and awesome EX attacker (especially with attached Focus Sash).
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I hope you find these comments helpful.
 
Bump to reflect changes to my deck in consideration of above comment... as well as changes meant to grant me a similar non-EX version of set up that works for more than just the bench put-down, and in the process, avoiding the average shaymin pick-off for last two prizes in favor of my foe, leaving me w/ no EXes, and no such surprise Lysandre pick-offs, at the expense of all trainers' mail and both shaymins(Remoraid and Octillery breakthrough, the one w/ the ability), and to make an attempt to rectify my lack of draw power(two added birch, one less judge and one more sycamore)...

Thanks, TuxedoBlack!

^ Any more comments and/or suggestions? Should I put back the trainers' mails? Or should I keep my changes?
 
With the inclusion of 2 Level Balls, replacing 1 Ultra Ball and 1 Battle Compressor, possibly help setup your bench faster?
 
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