I like how you ranked them. Looking at it from a meta which is the most competitively viable standpoint. I'm not going to lie though I am biased; and I put the Zapdos Ex deck dead last only because we had a way better Miraidon Ex deck come out. League battle vs Ex Deluxe, not a fair comparison but still. It's like getting a bag of brownies and then later on getting a bag of marshmallows, and trying to convince me the bag of marshmallows tastes the same as the bag of brownies. And it's not like marshmallows are bad, but it's entirely different from a bag of enriched chocolatey goodness.
Meowscarada ex bouquet magic is similar to RS inteleon Vmax double to pin damage to bench, but the pokemon need a good partner to be better It is also a good idea to play arven, TM evolution and town store to speed up evolution
Meowscarada and the "Miraidon expansion pack" (Zapdos) are the way to go. Quaquaval is alright, can be combined with Palkia or Klefki for a fun casual build. Ninetales is even harder to use than Quaquaval.
As terrible a choice as it may be, i did get the ninetails deck on tcgl and had fun with it. Theres a lot of hand dusruption involved with trying to get a good mirrored flames attack, so it tends to slow down and frustrate your opponent's setup. I had some success, but overall I agree that it's definitely not the best.
Level 1 decks are great as beginner-level teaching tools, but they aren’t really built for deep analysis. They’re essentially just one holo card and a random smattering of beginner-level Pokemon/trainers. There’s not much in the way of deck strategy when it comes to how they play beyond praying that you get your ex first. In the old days of PTCGO when there was a whole game mode dedicated to the old equivalent of level 1 decks, the exercise of analyzing them more deeply made more sense (even though those decks were actually worse than what we have now for the most part). But with no dedicated mode for them to compete on even ground, there isn’t even many use cases where assessing power level between these decks would even matter to most. The only real differentiators are what decks can be gutted for spare parts in better decks and which ones feature an exclusive card or card art. Chien-Pao is slipping in the meta, but that and Baxcalibur are useful Pokemon that come with the deck. Chien-Pao is also an alternate art from the main set, so there’s value there too. If you’re willing to heavily customize Tinkaton and end up with a fringe-rogue-tier deck, I guess you could put that a smidgen above the rest. But really it would be way cheaper to just buy singles for a Tinkaton deck. Greninja and Kangaskhan are cards that can only be gotten through their respective decks. Otherwise, there’s not much else to them.
I did what you recommended i thought 9f it it on my own , i mashed the 2 electric decks together but the zaptos is the only one of those that i bought!!!, so nice to see i chosen wisely
Questionn as a noob having started playing tcg days ago - why use the double turbo energy thing when it makes you do 20 less no? Why handicap yourself is my question.
Attaching 2 energy at once is insanely powerful for many decks because it means you can attack one turn faster. For example, Arceus VSTAR can attack in 2 turns thanks to Double Turbo Energy instead of 3 when you manually attach 3 basic energy. Outside of Gardevoir to an extent, pretty much any attacker with competitive viability must be able to set up and attack in 2 turns or less or it’s too slow to compete. By contrast, losing 20 damage is largely inconsequential. Attacking a turn faster is orders of magnitude better. For further context, there used to be a double colourless energy without the damage modifier and that was a wildly popular card because of how good extra energy is. The -20 damage of Double Turbo was meant to better balance the card so it wasn’t as broken as its predecessor, but it’s still played in many decks because extra energy is just that good.
I like how you ranked them. Looking at it from a meta which is the most competitively viable standpoint. I'm not going to lie though I am biased; and I put the Zapdos Ex deck dead last only because we had a way better Miraidon Ex deck come out. League battle vs Ex Deluxe, not a fair comparison but still. It's like getting a bag of brownies and then later on getting a bag of marshmallows, and trying to convince me the bag of marshmallows tastes the same as the bag of brownies. And it's not like marshmallows are bad, but it's entirely different from a bag of enriched chocolatey goodness.
I was actually looking for a video like this because I’m wanting to start playing
Meowscarada ex bouquet magic is similar to RS inteleon Vmax double to pin damage to bench, but the pokemon need a good partner to be better
It is also a good idea to play arven, TM evolution and town store to speed up evolution
14 comments is wild, you've been very helpful to a new player
Meowscarada and the "Miraidon expansion pack" (Zapdos) are the way to go. Quaquaval is alright, can be combined with Palkia or Klefki for a fun casual build. Ninetales is even harder to use than Quaquaval.
As terrible a choice as it may be, i did get the ninetails deck on tcgl and had fun with it. Theres a lot of hand dusruption involved with trying to get a good mirrored flames attack, so it tends to slow down and frustrate your opponent's setup. I had some success, but overall I agree that it's definitely not the best.
Can you also do a ranking for the level 1 battle decks? That would be interesting to watch.
Level 1 decks are great as beginner-level teaching tools, but they aren’t really built for deep analysis. They’re essentially just one holo card and a random smattering of beginner-level Pokemon/trainers. There’s not much in the way of deck strategy when it comes to how they play beyond praying that you get your ex first.
In the old days of PTCGO when there was a whole game mode dedicated to the old equivalent of level 1 decks, the exercise of analyzing them more deeply made more sense (even though those decks were actually worse than what we have now for the most part). But with no dedicated mode for them to compete on even ground, there isn’t even many use cases where assessing power level between these decks would even matter to most.
The only real differentiators are what decks can be gutted for spare parts in better decks and which ones feature an exclusive card or card art. Chien-Pao is slipping in the meta, but that and Baxcalibur are useful Pokemon that come with the deck. Chien-Pao is also an alternate art from the main set, so there’s value there too.
If you’re willing to heavily customize Tinkaton and end up with a fringe-rogue-tier deck, I guess you could put that a smidgen above the rest. But really it would be way cheaper to just buy singles for a Tinkaton deck.
Greninja and Kangaskhan are cards that can only be gotten through their respective decks.
Otherwise, there’s not much else to them.
I did what you recommended i thought 9f it it on my own , i mashed the 2 electric decks together but the zaptos is the only one of those that i bought!!!, so nice to see i chosen wisely
Questionn as a noob having started playing tcg days ago - why use the double turbo energy thing when it makes you do 20 less no? Why handicap yourself is my question.
Attaching 2 energy at once is insanely powerful for many decks because it means you can attack one turn faster. For example, Arceus VSTAR can attack in 2 turns thanks to Double Turbo Energy instead of 3 when you manually attach 3 basic energy. Outside of Gardevoir to an extent, pretty much any attacker with competitive viability must be able to set up and attack in 2 turns or less or it’s too slow to compete.
By contrast, losing 20 damage is largely inconsequential. Attacking a turn faster is orders of magnitude better.
For further context, there used to be a double colourless energy without the damage modifier and that was a wildly popular card because of how good extra energy is. The -20 damage of Double Turbo was meant to better balance the card so it wasn’t as broken as its predecessor, but it’s still played in many decks because extra energy is just that good.
@@InThirdPerson makes sense, thank you for elaborating and being patient with me!
I think it's "QUACK-wuh-VAHL", like "quack" + "carnaval" (Spanish carnival). Emphasis on first syllable, minor emphasis on last syllable.
The Ninetales deck needs Magma Basin in my opinion
I agree!