A Total Newbie's Blastoise Deck

PokemonCard Bot PokemonCard Bot Expanded 1,549 views Sep 26, 2022 Updated Sep 27, 2022
Expensive
Purchase
Deck Primer

A Total Newbie's Blastoise Deck

I just started playing PTCG because my 11-year-old nephew likes it and it gives us something to do together. I have very little experience with this game so I'm learning a lot and making a lot of mistakes as I go. I got a Blastoise V Battle Deck and got destroyed multiple times by the kid. I started customizing it to try to make things a little more competitive. This is where I am right now. It's a work in progress as I learn more.

I guess Blastoise is probably not

...

A Total Newbie's Blastoise Deck

I just started playing PTCG because my 11-year-old nephew likes it and it gives us something to do together. I have very little experience with this game so I'm learning a lot and making a lot of mistakes as I go. I got a Blastoise V Battle Deck and got destroyed multiple times by the kid. I started customizing it to try to make things a little more competitive. This is where I am right now. It's a work in progress as I learn more.

I guess Blastoise is probably not the best Pokémon to build a deck around, but my nephew really likes that we're both playing decks based on our favorite Pokémon (his is Inteleon and this past weekend I made the mistake of letting him watch the stream of Piper Lepine winning the Baltimore regionals, which gave him ideas).

I think I want to add Manaphy to this because he keeps sniping all my Bench Pokémon. I'm mostly just posting this as a way to keep track of it but wouldn't mind a little feedback if anyone sees this and is feeling generous. I'm enjoying this game a lot and would love to get better at it. I just have to balance "good deck" vs. "quality bonding time with nephew."

Card Types

Pokémon 25
Trainer 25
Energy 10

Energy Types

Water 16
Colorless 4
Lightning 4
Fighting 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 10 attacks
10
28.6% of attacks
2 Energy 7 attacks
7
20.0% of attacks
3 Energy 14 attacks
14
40.0% of attacks
4 Energy 4 attacks
4
11.4% of attacks

Opening Hand Probability Calculator

Calculate the probability of drawing specific cards in your opening hand

%
Probability of drawing at least of in your opening hand

Comments

DeeMss avatar

To keep things clean, you should switch the flying pikachu V with surfing pikachu V, because it is still electric type but takes water energy(ofc make the lightning energy water). If you are playing Ice Dance Frosmoth, you want the Lady supporters, but capacious bucket is better because ti doesn't take up a supporter spot. Play 4 Capacious bucket instead of 2-2 lady and bucket. You don't have to play melony because you have Ice dance, so focus on more search cards and more draw supporters instead to get the frosmoths in play as fast as possible. You can decide what to swap the melonies for. (maybe play 3-3 frosmoth so you could play more prof. research and evo incense)

Just my thoughts

SkyBlaze8 avatar

This deck is not that bad but depending if you're trying to beat him or make a deck good against most other decks changes can vary but I think you should change Blastoise V and VMAX to a 3-3 line even though is your main attacker you don't need that many, Flying Pikachu V and VMAX should be cut out unless you are trying to beat his Inteleon deck specifically, cut out the number of Snoms and Frosmoths to a 2-2 line, cut Radiant Hawlucha for Radiant Greninja, make the Bidoof and Bibarel line a 3-3 line, have 4 Capacious Buckets, have 2 Evolution Incense, cut out Lady Completely, have 4 Melony, cut Nessa, cut the lightning energy, and add more water energy.

avatar

SkyBlaze8 Thank you for the feedback! That all makes a lot of sense and fits with what I felt wasn't working though I don't know enough yet to see the problems myself right away. I'll get my hands on some of those cards (still building up the collection right now) and give that a try next time I see him.

avatar

DeeMss That's a good point about Capacious Bucket, I did notice that I felt like I had too many of the wrong supporters gumming up my hand since I can only play one per turn but couldn't quite put my finger on the problem. Thanks for the feedback!

SkyBlaze8 avatar

DeeMss also if you can find space add 2 Air Balloons.

You must be logged in to comment.