Cradily Lifesplosion

Cradily centered deck utilizing the lifesplosion attack.  Featuring Mega Gardevoir and Dragapult ex.

Setup:

Start the game with either Jirachi or Ditto (transformed into Jirachi)

Turn 1:

Activate Jiraci's Stellar Wish ability.  Your #1 priority is to get the Pokemon Research Lab and play it.  If you already have the lab in hand grab any other trainers that will help you evolve the 2 pokemon we are about to get with the lab.  

Once you're ready activate

Cradily centered deck utilizing the lifesplosion attack.  Featuring Mega Gardevoir and Dragapult ex.

Setup:

Start the game with either Jirachi or Ditto (transformed into Jirachi)

Turn 1:

Activate Jiraci's Stellar Wish ability.  Your #1 priority is to get the Pokemon Research Lab and play it.  If you already have the lab in hand grab any other trainers that will help you evolve the 2 pokemon we are about to get with the lab.  

Once you're ready activate the lab wich will let us search our deck for Lileep and Archen and put them on our bench. This ends our turn.

Turn 2: 

Our 1st priority is to evolve both Lileep and Archen into Cradily and Archeops respecively.  Arezu is the easiest way, but we can also use Pokemon Communication.  If Jirachi is still alive, still asleep, or we are missing a piece we need to get both evolutions, activate Stellar Wish to try to get another trainer.

If Jirachi isn't asleep, or if we got lucky and we have an escape board, retreat the Jirachi and promote Cradily.  Team Rocket's Petrel can also be used to search for an escape board if we didn't need to use another supporter this turn.  Once Cradily is in the active use Archeop's ability to search for two energy to attach to Cradily.  We will want a Blend Energy and a Triple Acceleration Energy.

When ready attack with Lifesplosion.  

The pokemon we want to search for are Mega Gardevoir, Reuniclus, and Garganacl.  I'll explain why later. You can swap out Gardevoir for Dragapult if Gardevoir has a bad matchup.

                                               
If there is space on the bench for a fourth pokemon to be summoned with Lifesplosion you can grab Pidgeot, Dragapult, a second Gardevoir, or a second Archeops.  

Turn 3:

If Cradily is still alive do whatever you can to retreat it.  Promote Gardevoir.  Use Archeops to get energy on your pokemon.  You'll want at least one energy on Gardevoir.  The rest can go wherever you think will be the safest, but remember both energy summoned with Archeops have to go on the same Pokemon.  The best enrgy to get on the field is Super Boost energy and Reversal Energy (if we are behind in prizes).  

                                                                 When ready attack with Gardevoir.  Super Boost Energy with Reversal Energy and one other Energy is a whopping 400 damage off the bat.  This will only increase in later turns as long as Archeops stays alive to search out energy.

Turn 4:

If Gardevoir was attacked this is where we will use Reuiniclus and Garganacl.  Move damage around on to your benched pokemon and leave 20 damage on Gardevoir.  At the end of the turn Garganacl will heal 20 damage from each pokemon.  And at the end of the opponents next turn the healing will happen again.  This can heal up to 240 damage before your next turn.  If the opponent decided to pick on the bench well that will still leave Gardevoir healthy to beat up the opponent, which is what we wanted to accomplish anyway.   

As a contingency plan if Cradily was knocked out try to get the Ditto Prism Star onto the bench and evolve that into a second Cradily.  

As an alternative play on turn 2; if you want to be hyper aggresive, or if you know the healing strategy won't work, you can instead grab 3 or 4 of the following using Lifesplosion:

Mega Gardevoir, Mega Gardevoir, Dragapult, Pidgeot, Archeops.

This strategy is foregoing healing and instead having multiple attackers. With either an excellent search engine using Pidgeot, or instead a turbo powered energy search with  two Archen on the field.  

I know this deck isn't the best the Expanded format has to offer, but it's pretty fun to use with so many stage 2s you wouldn't usually be able to use together. I set out to build a deck using as many of my favorite pokemon as possible, with Cradily as my #1, and this is what I came up with.  

Thanks for reading.