Popping Balloons And A Return Of The Deep Sea Guardian

Things didn't go so well with Flareon this past weekend (then again, it was a bunch of rouges that hit Flareon for Weakness + not a true next format prep tournament as it was Bo1 instead of Bo3) but I still felt rather bumed out by it.

WHAT did you say about me?

Maybe I really shouldn't, as they're decks that will never see that much play (I would hope at least-too much Suicune around for Flareon to enjoy itself) and the amount of non-special energy floating around rendered about 5-6 cards completely useless. For now while I test a different variant, I'll be taking a look at my old time friend that got crushed by the rotation-Lugia Donk!



Pokemon 12
x3 Lugia EX
x3 Virizion EX
x3 Deoxys EX
x2 Bouffalant (DXE)
x1 Tropius

Supporters 13
x4 N
x4 Professor Juniper
x4 Bicycle
x1 Shadow Triad

Trainers 18
x3 Plasma Ball
x2 Ultra Ball
x3 Pokemon Catcher
x1 Escape Rope
x2 Tool Scrapper
x3 Colress Machine
x4 Float Stone

x1 Computer Search

Energy 15
x4 Plasma Energy
x4 Double Colorless
x7 Grass Energy

[2 Free Slots]

I am not some tech!

The loss of Plus Power really sucks, but a new form of acceleration via Virizion and Colress Machine should make setting up Lugia kills much easier. Along with the inclusion of our non-EX, non-Plasma attackers, even weird variants (Safeguard decks, Toolbox, Silver Mirror heavy) won't exactly slow this down. Granted it doesn't have that same blistering speed that the old version of this had, but I think it has some interesting potential.

The 2 free slots may most likely go to Silver Bangles or Mirrors, but some counts of cards could be moved around to tech in more cards. If you wanted to re-tweak the list, something along the lines of 3 Float Stone/1 Random Receiver/2 Silver Bangle could be a choice.

Of course Garbo ruins your parade so the ACE SPEC choice could be changed to Dousing if you fear it that much to get the 3rd Scrapper out. Other options could be including a Plasma Chatot to get rid of all the tools on the opposite side, just keep in mind its very frail and donkable.

4 N/4 Juniper/4 Bicycle was and still is this deck's fastest engine. Everything in this deck is still for the most part, playable as soon as you hit it, which makes Bicycle plays all the more explosive. Why one Shadow Triad? There is no form of recovery in this deck via Thunderous, but you should only have to strike 3-4 times with Lugia to win your games at worst.

Other techs to consider-

Enhanced Hammer: Still have alot of decks in this format running Special Energy (with of course the exceptions being Darkrai/Garbodor and Straight Darkrai)

I don't have much time left before the first Regionals of the season so I'll need to settle on a deck and fast! Bicycle Away!

-Kalyst

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