How I Made Top Cut at Toronto Regionals With Lugia VSTAR | Deck List, Meta, and Matchup Analysis!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Hey everyone! I got 9th place at Toronto Regionals this past weekend with my Lugia VSTAR deck. Hear how I came to my 60 cards, what matchups I faced, and how my tournament run went!
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Deck List:
Pokémon: 21
4 Archeops SIT 147
3 Lugia V SIT 138
3 Lugia VSTAR SIT 139
2 Minccino TEF 136
2 Cinccino TEF 137
2 Lumineon V BRS 40
1 Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex TWM 141
1 Wyrdeer V ASR 134
1 Iron Hands ex PAR 70
1 Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 64
1 Squawkabilly ex PAL 169
Trainer: 23
4 Professor's Research SVI 189
4 Boss's Orders PAL 172
2 Iono PAL 185
1 Jacq SVI 175
4 Ultra Ball SVI 196
4 Capturing Aroma SIT 153
2 Nest Ball SVI 181
2 Mesagoza SVI 178
Energy: 16
4 Jet Energy PAL 190
4 Gift Energy LOR 171
4 Double Turbo Energy BRS 151
2 Mist Energy TEF 161
1 V Guard Energy SIT 169
1 Legacy Energy TWM 167
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Congrats on the finish brother, was rooting for you
Appreciate it man! We will get our wins soon!
Bolt player here, congrats on the run! The idea with going first in this matchup was mainly that I needed to take the first 2 prizes and I needed to kill cinncinno with briar to win, so I wanted to prioritize finding more cards to guarantee the ko. But you are right in me being inexperienced with the matchup. It was a pleasure playing you!
It was a pleasure playing you man, congrats on the finish! I think if you make Lugia go first you put so much pressure on me to natural turn 2 Double Chops, and get a Cinccino. It is just really hard for my deck to do. Raging Bolt's turn 1 attack rate is probably around 75-80% so I prefer to go second so I can Read The Wind and play a supporter!
Thank you for the video! Happy to listen to these after match reports. I also love seeing commentary on matches so like if you record online matches with Lugia or tabletop matches with Lugia, I’ll for sure be watching those. I’ll actually watch anything other than block or control decks.
Glad you enjoyed! For whatever reason I don't really post online matches often, but I definitely should start doing them!
Congrats on the top and it was pleasure meeting you Friday.
@@ChazBlanks thank you, it was nice meeting you too!
Lugias most faithful warrior back at it
The faith was rewarded!
Great play! Congrats on top cut
Thank you!
one play i enjoy going with lugia vs deck with no more switching out, if they bench 2 thing u can stall is sob a whole bunch leave them with 80hp boss other target sob till they have 80 left then take a 4 prize turn
That play is awesome, and a great way to avoid a tie if you are in game 3!
Congrats on the run goat
Appreciate it Viraj!
Excellent run! I ended up playing Lax at the tournament, was lucky not to hit too many lugias haha 😅
Lax was a super solid play for the event. Lugia was such a small metashare deck that Im not surprised you dodged them!
@@CiaranTCG yeah, I did hit 1 of them, and 1 moon, but luckily all the other matchups were pretty okay.
Let’s gooo lugia brotha my goat 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Appreciate it man!
Great run Ciaran, really enjoyed the breakdown.
In round 1 why didn't you continue using sob until they decked out?
That is a good question. I think I also was super close to decking out after playing Research. I remember I thinned my deck of all the energy before playing it. But I probably could have just not played the Research lol.
Live by the coin flip, die by the coin flip. There’s was a Lugia player that was running x4 pokeballs there lol
I saw his list, it was super cool. The 14 energy does scare me though
Thanks for the video! Any thoughts on the new Regigigas in the coming set? Cutting the deer or cinccino for Regigigas seems pretty good.
The new Gigas will be so good for Lugia! I think you could probably get away with playing a 1-1 cinccino line now. However, if Archaludon gets really popular I'd probably keep it at 2-2
Go Lugia! I brought it to NAIC but this time I went with Miraidon, sort of regretted my deck choice but in the future I hope to bring Lugia back!
The meta is shaping up super nicely for Lugia in this format! Definitely time to bring it back out
You never fail to impress me with your Lugia results! Congrats!
Do you think Lugia may be a play for EUIC with the new Regigigas?
Thank you! I definitely think the new Regigigas is going to be fantastic for the deck. It will probably allow you to confidently go down to 1-1 Cinccino
@@CiaranTCG that's what I thought :) maybe you can play without Cinccino with double Hands and Vessels/Lightning Energies? I guess it depends on the meta but I think this may be a good idea :)
You can for sure try that, and maybe have Raikou!
@@CiaranTCG I will test that, thanks!
Pokemon judges just seem really inefficient with deck checks. When I played MTG the solo judge for some events took maybe 5 minutes to deck check and make a decision. I think too much of pokemon judging falls to having to report to the head judge to give any penalty when it feels like other games give power to their judges to make an informed decision about prize penalties and such. Seeing so much slow play on stream is still wild and needs to be looked into. Otherwise congrats on the tournament, still wont play lugia because i cant draw well with the deck to save my life
I think the reporting up the chain is what slows things down the most. For game losses I think the rule is they need to consult the head judge, but I think they could have made the call a lot faster!
I was rooting for ya homie its so funny your friends predicted u bringing lugia 😂
I mean was there ever any doubt haha..... I always preach to play what you know!
great video! I also wanted to know your thoughts on lugia with noctowls if you've seen those builds?
Thank you! I have seen those builds, but I haven't tried them. What are the Noctowls for?
@@CiaranTCG with noctowl you can grab arezu/jacq along with ultra ball and use them to get any other trainers you want. seems to try to make lugia less reliant on luck but I am not sure how consistent it actually is
also helps that noctowl doesn't get blocked by klefki or thorns ex
I feel like me setting up Noctowl requires resources that could probably just get Archeops in the discard in the first place. It does seem pretty interesting though!
What do you think about iron leaves to counter zard? It needs a grass energy add, could it works?
This deck doesn't have a way to consistently find the grass energy. The zard matchup is already fine imo, you don't need a tech
Would you make any changes to the list going into San Antonio or keep it the same
I don't really think it needs any changes. If you want to add a tech I'd take out the waterpon
What do u think about klefiki to tryna stop miraidon, I'll play in rio soon and I really enjoy playing lugia
I don't really like Klefki, I think Flutter Mane is better. Klefki shuts off your own Squawk and Lumineon. Flutter Mane can also attack. I'd rather play Water Ogerpon for Miraidon
What's a good deck into regidrago that isn't Lugia? Getting back into the game and kind of want to be rotation proof.
Raging Bolt is super strong in to Regidrago, but doesn't beat a lot of other decks in the meta. This is a good website that has winrates for the different decks. www.trainerhill.com/meta?game=PTCG
@CiaranTCG thanks! And congrats on the run.
Is there a different meta for juniors? My 8 year old wants to start playing.
@@craigphillips2632 Juniors is like 20-25% Raging Bolt. I'd recommend Charizard for a Jr starting out
I've had such bad luck with mesagoza and good experience with jamming tower, since tower is more reactive for removing area zero in addition to its normal utility. What's a good argument for switching back to mesagoza?
Jamming Tower is only really super high impact against Gardevoir, and you have to draw it at the perfect time. Lugia plays 0 way to search or draw besides Research so I just have trouble finding it at the perfect time. Even though it sucks to have to flip with Mesagoza it helps you set up, and that is the biggest hurdle with this deck.
@@CiaranTCG What you say is true but isn't the Jamming Tower also really useful against Klawf that heavily relies on tools and which is also getting popular? I've been having the same problems with Mesagoza 😥I also don't like too much having 1/1 because I feel like "you don't have any".
@@lleseg Klawf plays 4 Underdepths, and Booster Capsule Still triggers Bonnet under Jamming. Klawf is already favourable imo
Rotation will have a word! Lol
Rotation is going to be a big nerf to me lol
Why no Fez?
Normally you don't have bench space and you have Gift Energy to draw. The decks that play Iono/Unfair Stamp normally play Counter/Prime Catcher as well and can KO the Fez on the turn they disrupt. I also would rather just draw Lumineon instead of Fez a lot of the time. I think Fez is a great card, but it doesn't slot in super easily to Lugia