Critical Stepping Bee

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Take all Prizes in these 3 Simple Steps:

1. Step on Active Pokemon with Tsareena leaving them at 30

2. Throw Ribombee at unsuspecting Active Pokemon as long as it has a Double Turbo Energy (Astral Radiance) attached or the opponents active pokemon resists them

3. Critical Bite the active Pokemon for 5-8 Prizes.

1 prize enemy Pokemon 5-7 will depend on your luck of coin flips and throwing chansey in your prizes via Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking (Temporal Forces) and Arc Phone (Lost Origin) 

2 prize

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Take all Prizes in these 3 Simple Steps:

1. Step on Active Pokemon with Tsareena leaving them at 30

2. Throw Ribombee at unsuspecting Active Pokemon as long as it has a Double Turbo Energy (Astral Radiance) attached or the opponents active pokemon resists them

3. Critical Bite the active Pokemon for 5-8 Prizes.

1 prize enemy Pokemon 5-7 will depend on your luck of coin flips and throwing chansey in your prizes via Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking (Temporal Forces) and Arc Phone (Lost Origin) 

2 prize enemy Pokemon 6-8 no luck required.

 

 

Deck is quite vulnerable to healing decks or Munkidori (Twilight Masquerade) gimmicks so probably not great in the meta, but a fun surprise for any unsuspecting opponents.

Have not tested this yet personally missing some cards I used to craft it in Live and testing against AI is usually childs play because the AI in Live is terrible at best.

The Basic approach of the deck is similar to normal Tsareena Control Decks, but instead of Hisuian Braviary (Silver Tempest) aims to take the win in just one knockout. It is still rather slow and setup heavy which is why I doubt it can hold its own against most meta decks.

Still the idea of taking all prize cards in one Turn has always been interesting to me so I figured why not play around with it. At the moment I think using the normal control tsareena deck is better for 6 prize knockouts by just knocking out 3 2 prize pokemon at once, but its also been less and less reliable with the recently added cards from twilight masquerade.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (18)
3 Tsareena ex sv4-46
$0.74 Water 310
2 Crobat swsh12-105
$0.27 Darkness 130
2 Chansey sv3pt5-113
$0.34 Colorless 110
1 Steenee sv4-9
$0.14 Grass 90
1 Golbat sv3pt5-42
$0.12 Darkness 80
2 Ribombee sv5-76
$0.16 Psychic 70
3 Bounsweet sv4-8
$0.06 Grass 60
2 Zubat sv3pt5-41
$0.12 Darkness 40
2 Cutiefly sv5-75
$0.12 Psychic 30
Trainer (32)
2 Arc Phone swsh11-152
$0.08
Trainer (32)
2 Arven sv3-186
$0.34
3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
1 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking sv5-145
$0.17
2 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
1 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
3 Feather Ball swsh10-141
$0.17
4 Iono sv4pt5-80
$0.32
3 Irida swsh10-147
$0.50
2 Panic Mask swsh11-165
$0.10
4 Rare Candy sv4pt5-89
$0.24
1 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.30
2 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
2 Ultra Ball sv4pt5-91
$0.25
Energy (10)
5 Basic Grass Energy sve-1
$0.17 Grass
2 Double Turbo Energy swsh9-151
$0.25
3 Reversal Energy sv2-192
$0.27

Card Types

Trainer 32
Pokémon 18
Energy 10

Energy Types

Darkness 5
Grass 4
Psychic 4
Water 3
Colorless 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 16 attacks
16
66.7% of attacks
2 Energy 4 attacks
4
16.7% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
16.7% of attacks

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Comments

Fluffy Dragon avatar
Fluffy Dragon

Cool looking deck. However, I don't think it would work quite how you think it would, although I'm not expert on the rules. When you use Plentiful Pollen on the turn after you hit the bench with Tsareena, the defending pokemon would now be the opponent's active pokemon and not the one you sniped on your last turn. Therefore, a Crobat bench snipe would give 2 additional prize cards, not 4. However, 2 additinal prize cards is still better than nothing.

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grandmagusta5258

Fluffy Dragon you are indeed correct I realised this issue shortly after testing the deck the only way this work is if you hit the active pokemon with tsareena, hit with pollen and then critical bite and in order for pollen not to kill you need to either use a Double Colorless Energy (Evolutions) or lower its attack in some other way. I might adjust the deck accordingly, but its even harder to setup taking that into account. I feel like I should just stick to using Ribombee (Temporal Forces) with Vitality Band (Sword & Shield) together with Kingambit (Obsidian Flames) for up to 4 prizes and tsareena and crobat for also up to 4 prizes.

While potentially 6 in one is possible with it considering it gives the opponent too many turns to react to it in my opinion.

I will adjust the Deck for the 6 knockout to be possible, but I doubt it will be quite consistent considering the opponent could do a lot of things during their turns to mess with this strategy.

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