Don't run Magmar. It's a noob trap. 2 retreat cost is too much for an aggro deck like this. Run another Gio instead, and keep it at 4 basics to guarantee what you need with 2 Poke Balls.
@GreymixShiro You don't need more than 4. The whole point of this deck is to end the game before you would ever even have a chance to use more than 4. Trust me, it's enough. Adding another basic makes Poke Ball less consistent, which is one of the main points of this deck. If you're in a situation where you need to use 5 basics, then you've most likely already lost.
@@itranscendencei7964 I meant for when you brick since it happens to me a lot, but you are right, if you dont draw any more basic by like turn 10 you most likely won't be winning that anyways
Let me say. Im 37y. I play pokemon (consoles) for 25y. Never played or had cards (Only Magic t G.) Learned to play with Pocket. And you are helping. Thank you.
Im now at lv 14. Made a Charizard, Ninetales, Moltres combo. Lose sometimes but I love it. My winning deck, and not my favorite, like fire or grass, is the water, with Bastoise, Lapras, Starmie and Articuno. I win a lot with these.
Minor words of wisdom. There are 2 pokemon with zero retreat cost. Everyone knows about the Starmie EX. No one uses the Dotrio (colorless 1 energy for 40 ATK). Doduo has a 1 energy retreat but it's evolved form Dotrio has zero retreat cost.
@@bonelessthincrust I think it might be to do with rapid spin! In pokemon battling stat is is a very common pivot to clear hazards, and the low retreat cost might reflect that
@@leucamaclean8900 Also Natural Cure. It cures your status when switching out. Since that's a guarantee here I think they made its retreat cost 0 instead.
@13:07 So my favorite deck at the moment is kind of a home brew. It’s a Water Status deck that utilizes Tentacurl and Frostmoth to poison and put to sleep my opponent Pokémon while I run Golduck and Starmine EX as sweepers, but often times the status are enough on their own. Best part about the deck is while it uses Misty, IT DOES NOT rely on it due to all attacks needing no more than 2 Energy. Also it’s fun to see how good budget cards can be, given I’ve had a lot of success going up against Mewtwo and Pikachu(Mewtwo being the easier of the two by far) if you’d like the deck list let me know, would be happy to share it for the content. Wishing yall the best of games
Try swapping the 1 Magmar for a Farfetch'd or something else. Magmar is really slow in the deck - both in energy for impace and in retreat cost. I've been running other things in that slot, currently Farfetch'd for more early pressure. You don't have trouble landing big hits with Blaine, you don't need magmar. Farfetch'd only having 60 health is rough but it's not weak to water and it applies much more pressure up front - which is synergistic. Opening Farfetch'd when going second lets put one fire energy on the brid to deal 40, then you can spend your second turn dealing another 40 while setting up a vulpix with your second fire energy. It also has a 1-cost retreat so it can get out of the way for ninetales next turn. Magmar opening would require 2 fire energy on it to deal 50 damage, and its so much harder to switch it out then build up its firepower again. Magmar is pretty darn bad overall. I'm not sure if Farfetch'd is the best replacement but it's much better than Magmar if you're going full Blaine Beatdown. Some people recommend 2nd Giovanni but I'm not a fan, the deck can already have trouble getting full value out of all its supporters and often wants to protect its ninetails from a sabrina.
Heatmor, is faster and just as bulky... but I think the best substitution might be Moltres. Molty is a (better) wall and will make sure all 3 of your bench Pokemon have enough energy for the rest of the game by turn 3.
You could try a Weezing Greninja deck. I’ve run it for fun and it’s been surprisingly good. Chip damage adds up quick from Weezing and with Greninja on the back line there’s nowhere for the opponent to run. I use dark and water energy so Weezing will put work in against Mewtwo. It’s also helpful that Greninja’s pre-evos only call for generic energy and Greninja only needs 1 water so you’re rarely punished for running two types of energy. I’ve dabbled with running 1 Misty to up the odds of getting water energy as well. The combo of Koga Weezing along with having no EX pokemon makes it really hard for the meta to keep the pace with you. Anyways, I’ve had a ton of fun using the deck. Maybe you could make a video on it in the future?
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My favorite deck has been Gengar EX/Clefable. Clefable having 100 hp, a 1 energy 40 damage attack and a weakness to metal instead of dark works perfectly to help get Gengar set up
I have 2 favorite decks at the moment: For general play Articuno EX/Starmie EX is my favorite deck, not just because it’s good, but because the only 2 star or higher card I’ve gotten so far since launch is Articuno EX’s rainbow border 2 star. I immediately went for a deck with it when I got it. For an EX-less deck, my favorite deck is promo-Mankey into Primeape combo. It’s a really fun setup and a super easy deck to put together. I’ve been wanting to play this Blaine deck as well (or a variant of it), but only recently started pulling Charizard packs and haven’t found any Blaine’s yet.
@sandythamtono2081 I’ve tried that version as well, and I find having the bench chip damage can help pull out games more than Lapras’ stalling. A good example of this is going against a Mewtwo EX deck; 2 blizzards killing an active Mewtwo EX can set up a benched gardevoir to be one hit by Starmie EX or another blizzard + Giovanni from Articuno EX. Plus, having the 2 energy attack on Articuno EX can help beat early basics if you can speed up your energy by at least 1 with a misty since most of those sit in that 50-60 HP range.
@ I’m currently pulling in charizard, so there’s no point doing it now. If I pull my 2nd Starmie EX before getting the 2 Blaine’s then I’ll spend points.
I'm using this deck on my alt acc and ngl im having more fun with it than with my pikachu deck, there's just something satisfying with crushing meta decks with a no ex deck.
Favorite deck right now is Venusaur with Kangaskhan. Kangas can hold up great early game and with luck take kos, but either way they apply pressure while you build up Venu. If opponent doesn't have Charizard, Venusaur will win almost any game once it's powered up.
Fav deck right now is the Arcanine EX deck. Pretty much a faster Charizard setup with 2 Moltres EX and 2 Arcanine EX. Tough early game but having a stage 1 damage dealer is nice, and with the lower energy requirement for Arcanine I get to add the free energy each turn to get Moltres ready for either an attack or retreat without X Speed. Great vid man, just followed on twitch. hope to catch you live soon!
I run 2 charizard ex, 2 moltres. 2 sabrina, 2 pokeball, 2 pokedex, 2 oak, 2 xspeed, 1 potion and 1 hand scope. Being able to see what cards are coming up with dex is awesome. Especially when you have oak and pokeball, you can see if you should use oak or use the poke ball first which will reshuffle the deck. This has altered my luck so much and made the wins way more consistent. I can also forefit if i know a win is impossible sooner. The scope is also really nice. I tried doing 2 scopes vs 2 potions but one of each hit a sweet spot on flexible utility. Was able to get 45 event wins with no issues.
My favorite deck is my Dragonite deck. I run 2-2-2 of the d-nite line, 2 chansey for setup stall, 2 each of potion, x speed, pokeball, prof, and gio, then an old amber to play around Sabrina and lastly a Sabrina of my one. Hasn’t really seen results except against friends. But I really like it.
Favorite deck has been Promo Mankey/Sandshrew. I have the EXs to run Marowak as the secondary to Primeape, but I'm not lucky with coin flips so I prefer the consistent damage of Sandslash. Plus with 2 X Speeds and Sabrina, I'm usually able to maneuver around even with it's 2 retreat cost. Splash that in with one each of Hitmonlee and Farfetch'd for increased aggression to keep the early game tempo in your favor. Main downside is losing tempo as Mankey needs to be in early to set up otherwise the damage output is capped typically at 70-80 with Gio, or getting really unlucky and starting with hitmonlee as your only mon in the first turn as it can't hit active.
Ninetales Rapidash deck is my favorite and best deck right now. The only thing hindering it right now is that so many people are using water deck, so I alternate between Ninetails and Pikachu ex deck
need another video about a new coop deck as powerful like this! im using this deck since i watched this video and its really good and help me win most of the time
This is my first deck I got. And I love it. I played with many decks yet, but this makes the most fun. Some Articuno, Dragonits Mewtwos and Pikachus were buried with it.
One of the best decks I'm running right now, and I have the genetic apex decks. Good for early aggression, has high burst potential with Blaine support card, and best part is the low energy cost. Currently having a 13-2 record, 2 loses are from the articuno + misty deck.
i just started playing today and i got mew two so i started to play around with random cards and try make a deck, im liking it at the moment not trying to search any meta yet but liking the videos
My favourite deck is either dragonite or this vileplume butterfree erika healer deck I've been using - really fun to get set up and turn momentum against people. I started out just running meta decks but realised I may lose more but have so much more fun playing the decks I enjoy
Love this and the Weezing/Arbok/Koga deck A LOT. I’ve gone like 10-2 since using this one. But I do think switching Mag for Farfetch’d or even Moltres Ex would be better. Farfetch’d for the early damage burst like you want to with this deck but Moltres Ex could help set up Ninetails and Rapidash even faster if you get stuck with it first - opposed to Magmar who can’t do anything useful like either one of those.
I've been really enjoying an Alakazam+Koga stall deck. It's nice because Alakazam kits like an EX against most of the meta decks, but isn't an EX. The only pokemon that can usually survive are some of the energy-cheap EX cards, like starmie and Marowak, but with a little help from a Wheezing poison you can do them in. The best play I ever had was when my opponent KOed my active pokemon with a giant bloom from venasaur, so I swapped out Wheezing, poisoned it, then played Koga to draw it back to my hand- swapped over to alakazam, hit for 180 damage, then the poison finished it off.
This Blaine deck is so much fun. No Magmar, 2 Giovanni’s and you are doing boosted damage 4 times. Nothing beats winding up a ninetails and cooking a pikachu ex on the 4th turn
When the Lapras event came out I whipped up an event Mankey/primeape and Machamp deck just for the heck of it. It's been doing pretty good. Give it a try
Fammm! Ive been watching you since this cane out. I love the content. Give this deck a try: your main focus is using execute and wigglytuff to attack while butterfree x2 heals and helpls take hits. And youll be nearly invincible butterfree x2, excecutor EX x2 And wiggly tuff EX x1. Xspeed x2, pokeball x2, professors research x2, erika x2. Youll like the deck i promise. Its done me well.
i honestly just used this deck for the last 5 levels, i was lvl 18 now i´m 23, at some point i got like 11 in a row, what a op deck!! thanks bro and thanks blaine
Melmetal can be surprisingly strong, though. Running it in a Wheezing shell myself and the only regulsr problem card is Mewtwo ex, though even thatcan be cleared with some poison ticks.
I use a Primeape and Brock deck with both Onix and Golem. It was my most consistent deck during the 45 win challenge. Not running an ex is so nice to work with as you can sack mons off more flexibly.
My favorite deck is a flying deck. Dragonite, Gyarados, Articuno ex, Zapdos ex, Pidgeot, and Frosmoth. I call it The Wild Blue Dance! So much fun to play!
Favorite deck right now: Dragonite, Hypno, Snorlax. w/ 2x potion 2x pokeball 2x prof 1x Sabrina 1x x-speed. Drop the Psychic energy. Fun as hell, be ready for slower games by my win rate has been near 75% with it. Just so many opportunities to shut your opponent down while you get dragonite online and then the potential extra attack with dragonite due to a sleep is game ending every time.
I'm mainly running a blaine deck too, bonus that ninetales is one of my favorite pokemon. Been screwed over by draws before, not getting either Blaine or Ninetales til my last 4 cards but it's a fun deck to play for sure. If ninetales had just 10 more hp it'd be perfect to counter pika Ex (can OHKO pika without getting OHKO-ed by pika)
That’s gonna happen with the deck limit being 20. I hope they raise it to at least 25 or 30 when the next expansion comes. Keeps it below the regular TCG count of 50 but helps knock off at least SOME of the rng by letting you add more.
I often use Ninetales in my fire deck, at first mostly because I didn't have a second Moltres, but also because of Blaine and it's only 1 point if it gets knocked down. I also run one regular Charizard for the same reason.
I love this deck, currently using it and it’s been the most successful yet. Great for beginners that wanna mop the floor with all these big EX heavy hitters.
My current favorite deck is Aerodactyl & Persian disruption, with Exeggcutor ex. The entire deck is a coinflip, but you sure as hell will annoy the enemy with it
My favourite thing to play has been pidgeot, but I haven't worked out a nice full deck for it. At the moment I'm running it with dragonite, which is fun when I can pull off setup, but not easy
i started w/ the mewtwo pack n pulling mainly from there, but i opened a few charizard packs and got almost every card needed for this deck. i just need 1 rapidash and 2 blaine. cant wait 4 trading.
Ive never played TCG before so this is my first experience with it. I don't know what I'm doing but I am having fun with my cute lil Pikachu Dragonite deck. I use closter also. Like I said idk what I'm doing but when I'm able to get Dragonite to pop off I love using Draco meteor
I've been running an arbok weezing deck with nidoking and 2 Persians. Largely due to card deficits. But it's performing pretty well. Biggest weakness is red card.
I absolutely love the Team Rocket deck. Wheezing is such an amazing card in general with 110 HP, poison damage, Koga and especially *being able to attack*. One energy is big to quickly setup Arbok the ba line as you soften the opposition first. Couple that with Arbok and you can pull some really tricky situation where you force your opponent to either retreat in front of Wheezing and get poisoned on something else or take the bait and get trapped/Ko by Arbok. My only concern with the deck is the low damage output, where you deal at most 80 with Giovanni, Arbok and poison damage. If only Muk needed only 2 energy, then it’s be viable.
Yeah it seems that running Muk reason being to not get one shot as often. Muk has 130 hp pool and there isn't really that much stuff that can one shot it with two energy attacks. Most one shot attack toward Muk are three energy attacks or higher, Muk (poison) / Raichu / Zapdos ex (coin flips) / Marowak ex (two energy, coin flips) / Primeape (two energy, has damage, Giovanni) / Machamp (Giovanni) / Machamp ex / Golem / Rhydon (Giovanni) / Kingler (coin flips) / Blastoise (five energy) / Blastoise ex (five energy) / Arcanine ex (Giovanni) / Centiskorch / Moltres (coin flip) / Charizard / Charizard ex / Alakazam (150 dmg against three energy target) / Golurk (coin flips) / Mewtwo (Giovanni) / Mewtwo ex / Dragonite (rng) / Lickitung (coin flips). Grass deck / Metal deck really need some real one shot firepower now.
I'm using aggro blaine with basic moltres instead of Magmar, and it works super fine. Retreat cost is 1, great HP amount, good wall for protecting ninetales and rapidash during first turn, and in emergency it could possibly take down anyone with his attack.
I’ve been debating using this or the Moltres Ex for the extra health and the ability. Extra retreat cost but could buy you time if you get stuck with a bad draw while also adding energies to your bench.
Favorite deck is hard but i would say marowak/weezing is pretty close to each other marowak feels like its always so good especially if you have a bit of luck with dugtrio protecet avtivation, and on the otherhand weezing just feels so nice to play
Hey Spragels love your content! Ive yet to see pidgeot/starmie decks out there. Would appreciate your spin on it! Mine runs 1 misty and 2 far fetche'd for quick aggression.
ik its not optimized or anything but since i only have one charmander and Charizard i run a hybrid char centiskorch deck and its surprisingly good. moltres can set up either one that comes to me and centi can deal with Pikachu, zapdos, starmies, lapras and articuno with gio, overall not bad.
My favorite deck is Charizard Ex. I like trying to stall to get to that 200 dmg for a few straight turns. My secong favorite is a pidgeot + flareon deck. 2 eevee, 2 flareon, 2 each of pidgeot line, 2 potions, 2 pokeballs, 2 x speeds, 2 prof research, 2 giovani.
Lol what's funny is I just got this deck yesterday and I played 6 times with it already. Need to copy it B4 it goes away. My best card is the SR Sabrina.
Yesterday I put together two Zapdos two fossil deck and went a quick 5-1. Only loss was a Pikachu deck where I went first. I did beat a Pikachu deck going second.
Im just thinking if you try it when it's about to end, will you get the new missions? Because when Mewtwo things end in 51 days there will be new stuff and missions right?
Dragonite and Frosmoth is definitely my favorite. It's a lot of RNG, but catching people off guard with it vs. any deck is so, so satisfying. And there's no way to hide from Draco Meteor once it starts. I've gotten 6 points with one attack before, even. Then Frosmoth puts people to sleep repeatedly, and if they're extra unlucky they're just struggling to do anything with their power pokemon out in front while Draco Meteor gets charged up. Is it consistent? No way. But it makes me feel big brain when I stall *just* long enough to get that one big hit off.
I love your videos and ive been noticing you call stage 2 pokemon stage 1's for some reason i know it says on the card stage one but ninetales is infact a stage 2 pokemon
2 Beedrill, 2 Venomoth, 1 Farfetchd, 2 Giov, 1 Xspd, 1 Erika, 1 Sabrina, 2 Ball&Prof. Deck is super fun!!! Everything attacks and retreat for 1 energy so you swap lile a mad man
OMG this whole time I thought when it says “stage 1” it was referring to the picture below saying “this is the stage 1 of this Pokémon” and didn’t even consider the possibility that the second evolution is called stage 1…
Favorite deck is Blastoise EX x Golduck deck. I've tested out different set ups and the best one that got me wins is the one you suggested and I've been using it since. Misty kinda is a pain in the behind though 🤣😅😂🙃
I enjoy watching your videos on Pokemon pocket above all others. You’re mature demeanor is much what I prefer than the overly excited, and most often, unnecessary shouting. It just comes off fake and annoying. Anyways, keep up the great work!
Don't run Magmar. It's a noob trap. 2 retreat cost is too much for an aggro deck like this. Run another Gio instead, and keep it at 4 basics to guarantee what you need with 2 Poke Balls.
farfetch is a good replacement, sometimes 4 basics just doesn't cut it
@GreymixShiro You don't need more than 4. The whole point of this deck is to end the game before you would ever even have a chance to use more than 4. Trust me, it's enough. Adding another basic makes Poke Ball less consistent, which is one of the main points of this deck. If you're in a situation where you need to use 5 basics, then you've most likely already lost.
I run it with moltres ex instead pf magmar. Fast energy acceleration for 9tails
Magmar as the starter is literally the worst feeling in the game
@@itranscendencei7964 I meant for when you brick since it happens to me a lot, but you are right, if you dont draw any more basic by like turn 10 you most likely won't be winning that anyways
Let me say. Im 37y. I play pokemon (consoles) for 25y. Never played or had cards (Only Magic t G.) Learned to play with Pocket. And you are helping. Thank you.
Im now at lv 14. Made a Charizard, Ninetales, Moltres combo. Lose sometimes but I love it. My winning deck, and not my favorite, like fire or grass, is the water, with Bastoise, Lapras, Starmie and Articuno. I win a lot with these.
@p3ms87 hope you're enjoying the game stranger, always nice to see new folks trying out games 🫡
lmao exactly ditto here, bro
Minor words of wisdom. There are 2 pokemon with zero retreat cost. Everyone knows about the Starmie EX. No one uses the Dotrio (colorless 1 energy for 40 ATK). Doduo has a 1 energy retreat but it's evolved form Dotrio has zero retreat cost.
I will never understand why Rapidash has a retreat cost and Starmie doesn't
or even gengar having a retreat cost
Starmie gives 2 prizes when killed and rapidash doesn't
@@joshuajones4849 thats not starmy. Thats starmy ex.
@@bonelessthincrust I think it might be to do with rapid spin! In pokemon battling stat is is a very common pivot to clear hazards, and the low retreat cost might reflect that
@@leucamaclean8900 Also Natural Cure. It cures your status when switching out. Since that's a guarantee here I think they made its retreat cost 0 instead.
I love this kind of deck, no setup no complicated requirement, just put down card and start attacking.
@13:07 So my favorite deck at the moment is kind of a home brew. It’s a Water Status deck that utilizes Tentacurl and Frostmoth to poison and put to sleep my opponent Pokémon while I run Golduck and Starmine EX as sweepers, but often times the status are enough on their own. Best part about the deck is while it uses Misty, IT DOES NOT rely on it due to all attacks needing no more than 2 Energy. Also it’s fun to see how good budget cards can be, given I’ve had a lot of success going up against Mewtwo and Pikachu(Mewtwo being the easier of the two by far) if you’d like the deck list let me know, would be happy to share it for the content. Wishing yall the best of games
Try swapping the 1 Magmar for a Farfetch'd or something else. Magmar is really slow in the deck - both in energy for impace and in retreat cost. I've been running other things in that slot, currently Farfetch'd for more early pressure. You don't have trouble landing big hits with Blaine, you don't need magmar.
Farfetch'd only having 60 health is rough but it's not weak to water and it applies much more pressure up front - which is synergistic. Opening Farfetch'd when going second lets put one fire energy on the brid to deal 40, then you can spend your second turn dealing another 40 while setting up a vulpix with your second fire energy. It also has a 1-cost retreat so it can get out of the way for ninetales next turn.
Magmar opening would require 2 fire energy on it to deal 50 damage, and its so much harder to switch it out then build up its firepower again.
Magmar is pretty darn bad overall. I'm not sure if Farfetch'd is the best replacement but it's much better than Magmar if you're going full Blaine Beatdown. Some people recommend 2nd Giovanni but I'm not a fan, the deck can already have trouble getting full value out of all its supporters and often wants to protect its ninetails from a sabrina.
The best replacement for Magmar in this deck is just another Giovanni. Rapidash and Ninetails is all you need Pokémon wise.
you're right, farfetched feels way better
magmar does suck but it will win you a game or 2 when you need 80 damage with blaine and not 70
Heatmor, is faster and just as bulky... but I think the best substitution might be Moltres. Molty is a (better) wall and will make sure all 3 of your bench Pokemon have enough energy for the rest of the game by turn 3.
@@hiighcalibre the reason magmar is a thing is cause sometimes you need 80 damage to win the game
You could try a Weezing Greninja deck. I’ve run it for fun and it’s been surprisingly good. Chip damage adds up quick from Weezing and with Greninja on the back line there’s nowhere for the opponent to run. I use dark and water energy so Weezing will put work in against Mewtwo. It’s also helpful that Greninja’s pre-evos only call for generic energy and Greninja only needs 1 water so you’re rarely punished for running two types of energy. I’ve dabbled with running 1 Misty to up the odds of getting water energy as well. The combo of Koga Weezing along with having no EX pokemon makes it really hard for the meta to keep the pace with you.
Anyways, I’ve had a ton of fun using the deck. Maybe you could make a video on it in the future?
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My favorite deck has been Gengar EX/Clefable. Clefable having 100 hp, a 1 energy 40 damage attack and a weakness to metal instead of dark works perfectly to help get Gengar set up
2 gengars? both ex?
@kubasniak correct, if I can get a regular Gengar I plan to through it in too but I haven't opened 1 yet
@@codyouellette6936 whats the ideal decklist for that one?
I have 2 favorite decks at the moment:
For general play Articuno EX/Starmie EX is my favorite deck, not just because it’s good, but because the only 2 star or higher card I’ve gotten so far since launch is Articuno EX’s rainbow border 2 star. I immediately went for a deck with it when I got it.
For an EX-less deck, my favorite deck is promo-Mankey into Primeape combo. It’s a really fun setup and a super easy deck to put together. I’ve been wanting to play this Blaine deck as well (or a variant of it), but only recently started pulling Charizard packs and haven’t found any Blaine’s yet.
@@ZentoPlays lapras ex > articuno ex . Lol
@sandythamtono2081 I’ve tried that version as well, and I find having the bench chip damage can help pull out games more than Lapras’ stalling. A good example of this is going against a Mewtwo EX deck; 2 blizzards killing an active Mewtwo EX can set up a benched gardevoir to be one hit by Starmie EX or another blizzard + Giovanni from Articuno EX. Plus, having the 2 energy attack on Articuno EX can help beat early basics if you can speed up your energy by at least 1 with a misty since most of those sit in that 50-60 HP range.
@@ZentoPlays I recommend spending the 70 / 140 pack points for a Blaine or two.
@ I’m currently pulling in charizard, so there’s no point doing it now. If I pull my 2nd Starmie EX before getting the 2 Blaine’s then I’ll spend points.
My favorite deck! It’s so good, the extra damage shuts down pika
I'm using this deck on my alt acc and ngl im having more fun with it than with my pikachu deck, there's just something satisfying with crushing meta decks with a no ex deck.
Favorite deck right now is Venusaur with Kangaskhan. Kangas can hold up great early game and with luck take kos, but either way they apply pressure while you build up Venu. If opponent doesn't have Charizard, Venusaur will win almost any game once it's powered up.
Until Mewtwo EX breaks the game with its OHKO move. Grass needs some major help in Pocket
Fav deck right now is the Arcanine EX deck.
Pretty much a faster Charizard setup with 2 Moltres EX and 2 Arcanine EX.
Tough early game but having a stage 1 damage dealer is nice, and with the lower energy requirement for Arcanine I get to add the free energy each turn to get Moltres ready for either an attack or retreat without X Speed.
Great vid man, just followed on twitch. hope to catch you live soon!
I run 2 charizard ex, 2 moltres. 2 sabrina, 2 pokeball, 2 pokedex, 2 oak, 2 xspeed, 1 potion and 1 hand scope. Being able to see what cards are coming up with dex is awesome. Especially when you have oak and pokeball, you can see if you should use oak or use the poke ball first which will reshuffle the deck. This has altered my luck so much and made the wins way more consistent. I can also forefit if i know a win is impossible sooner. The scope is also really nice. I tried doing 2 scopes vs 2 potions but one of each hit a sweet spot on flexible utility. Was able to get 45 event wins with no issues.
I haven’t been able to get a moltres I wish for my charizard deck😢
Been using venausaur ex and executor ex with 2 erika 50 heals and 2 potions
Been LOVING your videos! Please keep them coming!
My favorite deck is my Dragonite deck. I run 2-2-2 of the d-nite line, 2 chansey for setup stall, 2 each of potion, x speed, pokeball, prof, and gio, then an old amber to play around Sabrina and lastly a Sabrina of my one. Hasn’t really seen results except against friends. But I really like it.
Loving the Pocket content! Keep it up cowboy!
Favorite deck has been Promo Mankey/Sandshrew. I have the EXs to run Marowak as the secondary to Primeape, but I'm not lucky with coin flips so I prefer the consistent damage of Sandslash. Plus with 2 X Speeds and Sabrina, I'm usually able to maneuver around even with it's 2 retreat cost. Splash that in with one each of Hitmonlee and Farfetch'd for increased aggression to keep the early game tempo in your favor. Main downside is losing tempo as Mankey needs to be in early to set up otherwise the damage output is capped typically at 70-80 with Gio, or getting really unlucky and starting with hitmonlee as your only mon in the first turn as it can't hit active.
I would like to try Machamp in the mix, but I don't have enough of the regular line, let alone any EX of it.
Ninetales Rapidash deck is my favorite and best deck right now. The only thing hindering it right now is that so many people are using water deck, so I alternate between Ninetails and Pikachu ex deck
need another video about a new coop deck as powerful like this! im using this deck since i watched this video and its really good and help me win most of the time
My favorite deck since the lapras event is Lapras EX/Butterfree. I’ve had several wins with it and it’s surprisingly consistent
This is my first deck I got. And I love it. I played with many decks yet, but this makes the most fun. Some Articuno, Dragonits Mewtwos and Pikachus were buried with it.
Opened my two daily packs… pulled a rapidash full art and a Blaine full art trainer…… I gotta try this deck out now 😅😅
One of the best decks I'm running right now, and I have the genetic apex decks. Good for early aggression, has high burst potential with Blaine support card, and best part is the low energy cost. Currently having a 13-2 record, 2 loses are from the articuno + misty deck.
i just started playing today and i got mew two so i started to play around with random cards and try make a deck, im liking it at the moment not trying to search any meta yet but liking the videos
I've been using this deck for a long time, finally he makes a video on it
My favourite deck is either dragonite or this vileplume butterfree erika healer deck I've been using - really fun to get set up and turn momentum against people. I started out just running meta decks but realised I may lose more but have so much more fun playing the decks I enjoy
Ninetails, centi, and moltress is very fun. Gives the option to charge either option depending on what your starting hand is/circumstances
Love this and the Weezing/Arbok/Koga deck A LOT. I’ve gone like 10-2 since using this one. But I do think switching Mag for Farfetch’d or even Moltres Ex would be better. Farfetch’d for the early damage burst like you want to with this deck but Moltres Ex could help set up Ninetails and Rapidash even faster if you get stuck with it first - opposed to Magmar who can’t do anything useful like either one of those.
I've been really enjoying an Alakazam+Koga stall deck. It's nice because Alakazam kits like an EX against most of the meta decks, but isn't an EX. The only pokemon that can usually survive are some of the energy-cheap EX cards, like starmie and Marowak, but with a little help from a Wheezing poison you can do them in. The best play I ever had was when my opponent KOed my active pokemon with a giant bloom from venasaur, so I swapped out Wheezing, poisoned it, then played Koga to draw it back to my hand- swapped over to alakazam, hit for 180 damage, then the poison finished it off.
I love the promo mankey/primeape with marowak ex. has crazy (inconsistent) damage output and can cheese a lot of setup decks
Just watched the Brock/Onix/Slash deck video and its a GREAT deck! I've been having a LOT of wins with having 2x Golem in place of the sandslash
This Blaine deck is so much fun. No Magmar, 2 Giovanni’s and you are doing boosted damage 4 times. Nothing beats winding up a ninetails and cooking a pikachu ex on the 4th turn
fav deck so far is machamp ex with promo mankey into primeape. surprisingly good!
When the Lapras event came out I whipped up an event Mankey/primeape and Machamp deck just for the heck of it. It's been doing pretty good. Give it a try
Fammm! Ive been watching you since this cane out. I love the content.
Give this deck a try: your main focus is using execute and wigglytuff to attack while butterfree x2 heals and helpls take hits. And youll be nearly invincible
butterfree x2, excecutor EX x2
And wiggly tuff EX x1.
Xspeed x2, pokeball x2, professors research x2, erika x2.
Youll like the deck i promise. Its done me well.
Appreciate the content. Pidgeot fav mon fav deck, maybe insight on pairing with omastar, arbok, etc
i honestly just used this deck for the last 5 levels, i was lvl 18 now i´m 23, at some point i got like 11 in a row, what a op deck!! thanks bro and thanks blaine
Steel type needs more support in this game and I hope they add the metagross line for it.
Melmetal can be surprisingly strong, though. Running it in a Wheezing shell myself and the only regulsr problem card is Mewtwo ex, though even thatcan be cleared with some poison ticks.
Just found my most favorite deck in the game! love playing Blaine as a surprise and hitting for 120
I'd love to see how you'd run an aggro heliolisk deck. I've been running a fast aggro lightning deck and it's been pretty fun to play
I use a Primeape and Brock deck with both Onix and Golem. It was my most consistent deck during the 45 win challenge. Not running an ex is so nice to work with as you can sack mons off more flexibly.
I think my fave deck right now is weezing/muk/koga. It got me to 45 wins, smashed through Mewtwo, and even handled pika super well.
My favorite deck is a flying deck. Dragonite, Gyarados, Articuno ex, Zapdos ex, Pidgeot, and Frosmoth. I call it The Wild Blue Dance! So much fun to play!
thank you ive been winning tons with this
Favorite deck right now: Dragonite, Hypno, Snorlax. w/ 2x potion 2x pokeball 2x prof 1x Sabrina 1x x-speed. Drop the Psychic energy.
Fun as hell, be ready for slower games by my win rate has been near 75% with it. Just so many opportunities to shut your opponent down while you get dragonite online and then the potential extra attack with dragonite due to a sleep is game ending every time.
Alot of people are complaining how strong basic EX pokemons are. Yet, this deck can out play alot of decks without any.
I'm mainly running a blaine deck too, bonus that ninetales is one of my favorite pokemon. Been screwed over by draws before, not getting either Blaine or Ninetales til my last 4 cards but it's a fun deck to play for sure. If ninetales had just 10 more hp it'd be perfect to counter pika Ex (can OHKO pika without getting OHKO-ed by pika)
That’s gonna happen with the deck limit being 20. I hope they raise it to at least 25 or 30 when the next expansion comes. Keeps it below the regular TCG count of 50 but helps knock off at least SOME of the rng by letting you add more.
I often use Ninetales in my fire deck, at first mostly because I didn't have a second Moltres, but also because of Blaine and it's only 1 point if it gets knocked down. I also run one regular Charizard for the same reason.
I love this deck, currently using it and it’s been the most successful yet. Great for beginners that wanna mop the floor with all these big EX heavy hitters.
My current favorite deck is Aerodactyl & Persian disruption, with Exeggcutor ex. The entire deck is a coinflip, but you sure as hell will annoy the enemy with it
I love Starmie build its easy to set up and dance around your other mons in and out lf battle and not get KOed but with all the pika decks.
One of my favourite deck with Primeape/Sandslash. The pressure those decks can put on ex decks is untrue. My Primeape hasn't lost to Mewtwo yet 😊
My favourite thing to play has been pidgeot, but I haven't worked out a nice full deck for it. At the moment I'm running it with dragonite, which is fun when I can pull off setup, but not easy
i started w/ the mewtwo pack n pulling mainly from there, but i opened a few charizard packs and got almost every card needed for this deck. i just need 1 rapidash and 2 blaine. cant wait 4 trading.
I’ve been using a deck with 2 Arboks, 1 Wheezing (until I get a second Koffing) and a Wigglytuff EX, been very fun and is pretty consistent
Ive never played TCG before so this is my first experience with it. I don't know what I'm doing but I am having fun with my cute lil Pikachu Dragonite deck. I use closter also. Like I said idk what I'm doing but when I'm able to get Dragonite to pop off I love using Draco meteor
This is one of my favourite decks!!!
I've been running an arbok weezing deck with nidoking and 2 Persians. Largely due to card deficits. But it's performing pretty well.
Biggest weakness is red card.
I absolutely love the Team Rocket deck. Wheezing is such an amazing card in general with 110 HP, poison damage, Koga and especially *being able to attack*. One energy is big to quickly setup Arbok the ba line as you soften the opposition first. Couple that with Arbok and you can pull some really tricky situation where you force your opponent to either retreat in front of Wheezing and get poisoned on something else or take the bait and get trapped/Ko by Arbok.
My only concern with the deck is the low damage output, where you deal at most 80 with Giovanni, Arbok and poison damage. If only Muk needed only 2 energy, then it’s be viable.
Yeah muk is just too expensive to be viable most of the time
With the new mankey, it shut down entire koga stuff.
And ninetails + blaine one shot it.
I'm running a deck with arbok and pidgeot it's pretty good so far I think only weakness is definitely power.
Yeah it seems that running Muk reason being to not get one shot as often. Muk has 130 hp pool and there isn't really that much stuff that can one shot it with two energy attacks. Most one shot attack toward Muk are three energy attacks or higher, Muk (poison) / Raichu / Zapdos ex (coin flips) / Marowak ex (two energy, coin flips) / Primeape (two energy, has damage, Giovanni) / Machamp (Giovanni) / Machamp ex / Golem / Rhydon (Giovanni) / Kingler (coin flips) / Blastoise (five energy) / Blastoise ex (five energy) / Arcanine ex (Giovanni) / Centiskorch / Moltres (coin flip) / Charizard / Charizard ex / Alakazam (150 dmg against three energy target) / Golurk (coin flips) / Mewtwo (Giovanni) / Mewtwo ex / Dragonite (rng) / Lickitung (coin flips).
Grass deck / Metal deck really need some real one shot firepower now.
I'm using aggro blaine with basic moltres instead of Magmar, and it works super fine. Retreat cost is 1, great HP amount, good wall for protecting ninetales and rapidash during first turn, and in emergency it could possibly take down anyone with his attack.
I’ve been debating using this or the Moltres Ex for the extra health and the ability. Extra retreat cost but could buy you time if you get stuck with a bad draw while also adding energies to your bench.
Favorite deck is hard but i would say marowak/weezing is pretty close to each other
marowak feels like its always so good especially if you have a bit of luck with dugtrio protecet avtivation, and on the otherhand weezing just feels so nice to play
Hey Spragels love your content! Ive yet to see pidgeot/starmie decks out there. Would appreciate your spin on it! Mine runs 1 misty and 2 far fetche'd for quick aggression.
I love this deck. I run the Farfetch version will have to try magmar.
ik its not optimized or anything but since i only have one charmander and Charizard i run a hybrid char centiskorch deck and its surprisingly good. moltres can set up either one that comes to me and centi can deal with Pikachu, zapdos, starmies, lapras and articuno with gio, overall not bad.
My favorite is Wings of Ash, Moltres EX Centiskorch and old amber. The one you played on stream today.
My favorite deck is Charizard Ex. I like trying to stall to get to that 200 dmg for a few straight turns.
My secong favorite is a pidgeot + flareon deck. 2 eevee, 2 flareon, 2 each of pidgeot line, 2 potions, 2 pokeballs, 2 x speeds, 2 prof research, 2 giovani.
Ngl I've been playing this deck for a couple days now and I think it's my favorite
Lol what's funny is I just got this deck yesterday and I played 6 times with it already. Need to copy it B4 it goes away.
My best card is the SR Sabrina.
Favorite deck is Arbok and Weezing, each game I feel engaged with decision making unless if I get Mistied and cry inside.
I’ve been running a dragonite frosmoth deck, I’ve put some fossils too to help with Sabrina
Yesterday I put together two Zapdos two fossil deck and went a quick 5-1. Only loss was a Pikachu deck where I went first. I did beat a Pikachu deck going second.
Jake is it smart to take premium pass free trial when it's about to end to get new missions?
@@Hisuian_zoroark_and_zorua_fan just cancel immediately. still runs for a week
Im just thinking if you try it when it's about to end, will you get the new missions? Because when Mewtwo things end in 51 days there will be new stuff and missions right?
Starmie, Blastoise, Greeninja Water type deck is by far my favorite just because of my undying bias towards water types
my favorite deck is dugtrio sandslash and 1 set of machamp ex. It's so satisfying walling mewtwo with a successful dig.
My favorite deck is Dragonite with Jolteon and Articuno (non EX). Puts up pressure while prepping Dragonite
Dragonite and Frosmoth is definitely my favorite. It's a lot of RNG, but catching people off guard with it vs. any deck is so, so satisfying. And there's no way to hide from Draco Meteor once it starts. I've gotten 6 points with one attack before, even. Then Frosmoth puts people to sleep repeatedly, and if they're extra unlucky they're just struggling to do anything with their power pokemon out in front while Draco Meteor gets charged up. Is it consistent? No way. But it makes me feel big brain when I stall *just* long enough to get that one big hit off.
Exeggutor ex/Butterfree deck is my favorite. Def not the best but it’s fun and I’ve been pretty successful with it
For favorite, I gotta go the Blaine deck. It's so fast to set up, and does a ton of damage too.
Blaine is my fav deck by FAR! ❤ used it to climb to my gold trophy
Would love to see your spin on Aerodactyl + Pidgeot. I'm trying it with Misty and Geninja
Ps: forget the Misty
Hi spragels, my favorite deck by far is new primeape deck with marowak!! Really coinflip aggro tho!
I love your videos and ive been noticing you call stage 2 pokemon stage 1's for some reason i know it says on the card stage one but ninetales is infact a stage 2 pokemon
this is 1 on my favorite deck. because this is the only deck that gives u advantage going first(aside from misty) because of low cost rapidash.
Exegcutor EX goes crazy going first too.
Mine is melmetal stall deck, i hope they'll give love to steel in next expansion
Favorite deck so far has been Dragonite with either Kangaskhan or Weezing.
Currently can't decide my favourite from greninja/starmie ex or pidgeot/arbok, both feel great and a tad more interactive due to the abilities.
Personally, I've been having a lot of fun and success with Pidgeot+Greninja. It's my favorite deck so far.
I really appreciate this deck because im so tired of the slow set up Charizard, mewtwo, and ANY water deck with miss-ty
2 Beedrill, 2 Venomoth, 1 Farfetchd, 2 Giov, 1 Xspd, 1 Erika, 1 Sabrina, 2 Ball&Prof. Deck is super fun!!! Everything attacks and retreat for 1 energy so you swap lile a mad man
OMG this whole time I thought when it says “stage 1” it was referring to the picture below saying “this is the stage 1 of this Pokémon” and didn’t even consider the possibility that the second evolution is called stage 1…
I run a Blaine deck too but I swap out rapidash for flareon and its pretty sweet that way too
Favorite deck is Blastoise EX x Golduck deck. I've tested out different set ups and the best one that got me wins is the one you suggested and I've been using it since. Misty kinda is a pain in the behind though 🤣😅😂🙃
I love running Nidoqueen and Nidoking 😊
My favorite deck is Blastosie EX Starmie, I just love water decks.
I enjoy watching your videos on Pokemon pocket above all others. You’re mature demeanor is much what I prefer than the overly excited, and most often, unnecessary shouting. It just comes off fake and annoying. Anyways, keep up the great work!
this deck crushed my water deck today... with 2x starmie ex /lapras ex. i just couldnt set up in time
Fav deck so far is the Koga, Weezing, Arbok deck..
Marowak EX and Primeape is probably my favorite deck atm