[1a] Team Rocket Lock

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Team Rocket Hand Lock

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This deck's goal is to get rid of your opponent's hand cards by using The Rocket's Trap and Rocket's Sneak Attack. Once your opponent has no usable cards in their hand anymore control the top deck with Chip Chip Ice Axe.

You can prevent your opponent from attacking with Holon Circle, without which your opponent could just Impersonate for cards like Ghetsis to turn the tables. This means you have to deal damage with ...

Team Rocket Hand Lock

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This deck's goal is to get rid of your opponent's hand cards by using The Rocket's Trap and Rocket's Sneak Attack. Once your opponent has no usable cards in their hand anymore control the top deck with Chip Chip Ice Axe.

You can prevent your opponent from attacking with Holon Circle, without which your opponent could just Impersonate for cards like Ghetsis to turn the tables. This means you have to deal damage with Hypnotoxic Laser.

Tech Cards

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Boss's Orders is a great option against Spiritomb decks. Other than Trevenant and Kabutops, Spiritomb decks have to play down Pokemon without Item lock, so Boss's Orders gives you an easy win option. You can also use it to stall for time.
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Cessation Crystal gives you an easy win against decks that need Pokemon-Power for their combo. Often these decks' only option against Cessation Crystal is Faba, so having a Cessation Crystal allows you to give these decks a Supporter card. It also shuts off Ditto and allows you to use Holon Circle against Spiritomb.
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Trick Shovel is an interesting card. It's a leftover from the time before Chip Chip Ice Axe, but you can use it on yourself to thin your deck. Sometimes, if you have Trick Shovel and Item Finder or Junk Arm in your opening hand and no other useful cards, you can hit a useful Item card with Trick Shovel and continue to win the game. While a Chip Chip Ice Axe would have lost you the game in the same situation.

Strategy against Spiritomb

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Since the strategy doesn't need a Stadium card, you just need Space Center in your opening hand to win. If you don't, you can search for it with Green's Exploration. If your opponent has a Chaotic Swell in play, you can Impersonate for Green's Exploration to get Delinquent and Space Center and then use Delinquent to get rid of Chaotic Swell. Boss's Orders can also sometimes get around Spiritomb and once you have Cessation Crystal in play, you can even give your opponent Stadium cards to draw.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (4)
4 Sableye dp7-48
$6.87 Darkness 60
Trainer (55)
1 Bicycle bw8-117
$3.99
3 Bill's Teleporter neo1-91
$0.46
1 Boss's Orders swsh9-132
$0.39
1 Cessation Crystal ex14-74
$4.99
2 Chip-Chip Ice Axe sm10-165
$0.17
1 Delinquent xy9-98
$0.29
1 Dowsing Machine bw8-128
$6.49
2 Green's Exploration sm10-175
$0.36
2 Holon Circle ex14-79
$0.71
Trainer (55)
2 Hypnotoxic Laser bw8-123
$2.23
4 Item Finder base4-103
$7.50
4 Junk Arm hgss4-87
$2.90
2 Lysandre's Trump Card xy4-99
$0.37
4 Poké Drawer + dp7-89
$1.74
4 Pokédex HANDY910is pl1-114
$0.41
4 Professor Oak base4-116
$1.32
3 Rocket's Sneak Attack base5-72
$10.62
4 Space Center ex8-91
$2.26
3 The Rocket's Trap gym1-19
$27.02
4 Trainers' Mail xy6-92
$2.40
1 Trick Shovel xy2-98
$0.28
2 VS Seeker xy4-109
$4.24
Energy (1)
1 Darkness Energy col1-86
$1.11 Darkness

Card Types

Trainer 55
Pokémon 4
Energy 1

Energy Types

Darkness 4

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

0 Energy 4 attacks
4
50.0% of attacks
1 Energy 4 attacks
4
50.0% of attacks

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