Crustle (DRI) & Munkidori (BB & WF)

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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Artazon (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Arven (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Earthen Vessel (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Luxurious Cape (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Practice Studio (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Turbo Energize (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Town Store (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Jet Energy (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Reversal Energy (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

I apologize but I will not be posting decks as often.

Strategy: First of all, I strongly suggest to go second with this deck so you can pull of an Ascension with Dwebble or to use TM: Turbo Energize to get your Energies into play. Anyways, during your First Turn, try and get out the following Pokémon:

- 2-3 Dwebble

- 1-2 Munkidori

- Any other Pokémon of your choice.

You should try and have a Dwebble in the Active Spot as well so you can use Dwebble's Attack, Ascension, to evolve into Crustle

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I apologize but I will not be posting decks as often.

Strategy: First of all, I strongly suggest to go second with this deck so you can pull of an Ascension with Dwebble or to use TM: Turbo Energize to get your Energies into play. Anyways, during your First Turn, try and get out the following Pokémon:

- 2-3 Dwebble

- 1-2 Munkidori

- Any other Pokémon of your choice.

You should try and have a Dwebble in the Active Spot as well so you can use Dwebble's Attack, Ascension, to evolve into Crustle in order to wall ex Pokémon. Anyways, I will now be moving onto Pokémon Explanations.

Pokémon Explanations:

Crustle (DRI) is your primary Attacker which can deal 120 Damage and ignores effects of your Opponent's Active Pokémon and Crustle has the Ability, Mysterious Rock In, which makes Crustle immune to all damage from Pokémon ex.

Munkidori is here to help move damage off of Crustle and move it onto your Opponent's Pokémon so you can stall with Crustle further and make KOing your Opponent's Pokémon a lot easier.

Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex helps as a wall against Pokémon with Abilities and can deal 140 Damage with the effect of ignoring Weakness, Resistance, and effects on your Opponent's Active Pokémon.

That concludes all the Pokémon explanations, so I will now move onto explaining the Trainer Cards.

Trainer Cards Explanation:

Arven, Iono, and Boss's Orders are all Self-Explanatory. Crispin helps set up your Energies to attack with Crustle or to get an Energy for Crustle and attach an Energy to either Munkidori, Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex, or Iron Thorns ex (if added in). Colress's Tenacity helps find your Stadium Cards and an Energy Card. Lana's Aid provides recovery for your Basic Energy Cards and Non-Rulebox Pokémon and puts them into your hand. Pokégear makes finding your Supporter Cards a lot easier. Buddy-Buddy Poffin and Nest Ball help find your Basic Pokémon. Energy Switch helps you move an Energy from one Pokémon onto another. Poké Vital A (usually the worst ACE SPEC to use), is in this deck as it can heal 150 Damage off of your Crustle so you can tank even more hits with Crustle. Luxurious Cape gives Crustle 100 more HP but does give up 2 Prize Cards instead of 1 when KO'd by damage. Air Balloon makes your Pokémon's Retreat Cost cheaper. Artazon helps find your Basic Non-Rulebox Pokémon, Town Store helps find your Tool Cards, and Practice Studio lets your Stage 1 Pokémon deal 10 more Damage.

There's not much more to explain about the Trainer Cards, so I will now move onto Energy Card Explanations.

Energy Card Explanations:

This will be a short sub-section. Anyways, Mist Energy helps provide some Protection to your Benched Pokémon or to your Active Pokémon as the Pokémon it is attached to negates all effects of Attacks to that Pokémon. This is especially helpful for your Benched Dwebble/Crustle against decks such as Dragapult ex. Reversal Energy provides all Energy needed to Attack with Crustle when you are behind on Prize Cards. Jet Energy brings whatever Pokémon it is attached to into the Active Spot.

That concludes the Energy Card Explanations, so I will now move onto basic combos you can do with this deck.

Basic Combos:

1.) Use Munkidori's Adrena Brain, use Energy Switch to move that Darkness Energy from Munkidori onto Crustle to then Attack with Crustle.

2.) Use Energy Switch to then move a Darkness Energy on a damaged Crustle onto a Munkidori, use Adrena-Brain, and then attach another Energy onto Crustle if you have any in hand to then Attack with Crustle.

3.) Boss's Orders to gust up an ex Pokémon with no Energies attached to them and wall them with Crustle to slowly set up or an Ability Pokémon to wall with Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex.

4.) Munkidori's Adrena-Brain and Poké Vital A to heal your Crustle.

5.) Boss's Orders to gust up a weakened Pokémon into the Active Spot to then finish them off with Crustle or CM Ogerpon ex.

There's definitely more combos you can perform but that's all the ones I will be listing. Anyways, this concludes the strategy section of this deck, so feel free to make any changes, ask almost any question, or to leave any suggestions!

CTC: The cards that I'd recommend to add into this deck as an alternative for you to try out or try to fit your preferences will be sorted into a list with a brief description for every card. If there any cards here or from your own thoughts/ideas that you'd wish to add into this deck, cut out any cards that you don't find too useful. With this being stated, here is the list:

Pokémon:

- 1 Crustle (BB) - Gives you another Attacker.

- 3 Iron Thorns ex - Helps with your matchup against decks such as Gardevoir ex.

Trainer Cards:

- 2 Professor's Research - Lets you get bigger hand sizes.

- 1-2 Judge - Provides more disruption.

- 1 Night Stretcher - Provides more recovery.

- 1 Super Rod - Provides even more recovery.

- 1 Ultra Ball - Helps find your Pokémon and adds it into your hand, helpful if you cannot pull off an Ascension the previous turn.

- 1 Super Potion - Heals your Crustle a bit.

- 1 Enhanced Hammer - Removes a Special Energy from 1 of your Opponent's Pokémon.

- 2 FBEC - Helps with Iron Thorns ex.

- Hero's Cape - Alternative ACE SPEC of choice.

Energies:

- 3 Basic Lightning Energies - Lets you attack with Iron Thorns ex.

- Basic 2 Psychic Energies - Lets you attack with Munkidori.

- 1 Medical Energy - Heals damage from the Pokémon you attach it to.

This concludes the CTC (Cards to Consider) section and the rest of the description. I hope you guys found this description helpful. Anyways, thank you all for your support, I greatly appreciate it and I hope you all have a great day!

Card Types

Trainer 36
Energy 14
Pokémon 10

Energy Types

Grass 10
Darkness 4
Psychic 3
Fighting 2
Colorless 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 3 attacks
3
30.0% of attacks
2 Energy 3 attacks
3
30.0% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
40.0% of attacks

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Comments

LimeLemon avatar

This deck was really fun to test online! Also, Gardevoir ex is one of this deck's greatest weakness, so adding in Iron Thorns ex isn't a bad idea but I don't really know what to cut in order to add in the 7 Cards needed to make Thorns work.

Paisley Park, After Dark avatar

Very well built deck, and it's nice to see something so budget friendly. Have you considered Farigiraf ex as an answer to Gardevoir? It hits for weakness, and the little bit of bench damage it does can help soften up cards for Munkidori (plus it's immune to Mew ex, which hits through Oger and the crab, though I don't know how often that interaction occurs lol).

If you don't want to make that big of a change, maybe TM Devolution could help? At the very least it can help you stall against evolving decks while you get your attackers set up.

LimeLemon avatar

Paisley Park, After Dark Thank you for your feedback, I greatly appreciate it! I have not actually considered using Farigiraf ex yet, so I will try that along with TM: Devolution, and I will make any changes if the testing goes well.

danielruxinj1 avatar

First time seeing pokevital A once 🥀

danielruxinj1 avatar

Could u make a stall deck with pikachu ex and mimikyu and etc?

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LimeLemon Why have you never made a deck with rowlet before? I still mede one 4 u tho. It's my most recent deck.

LimeLemon avatar

danielruxinj1 I could try, but the Energy Count may be really weird, though Crispin exists for that anyways. Thank you for your suggestion!

LimeLemon avatar

Nitrogen7776 I have made a Decidueye ex based deck as of recent, though it'd be pretty much be impossible to make a Rowlet focused deck as Rowlet is not that good as a card. Additionally, prior to posting that Decidueye ex deck today, I have not made a Decidueye ex deck as I was still testing it. I will also look at your Decidueye ex deck as well, thank you for your feedback!

danielruxinj1 avatar

LimeLemon, u could make an expanded deck on aloan exgeuttor and rowlet.

LimeLemon avatar

danielruxinj1 An Alolan Exeggutor and Rowlet GX deck would likely work, but I'm not that great at the Expanded Format as I primarily play Standard, but thank you for your feedback!

Syraphin avatar

I love this idea and the idea of it for junior's as it'll be easy for them to learn how to use. Was going to get it setup for my kid but I was thinking about the mega-evo's coming in a few weeks. Crustle won't work against them. Is there something else that could be slotted in for that use?

LimeLemon avatar

Syraphin Crustle should still be able to block Mega Pokémon ex when Mega Brave and Mega Synohonia release as they still have ex Pokémon in the Rulebox name, it's like how Mimikyu with the Safeguard Ability could block VSTAR and VMAX Pokémon as those 2 Rulebox Pokémon still came from Pokémon V. I hope this can help!

Syraphin avatar

LimeLemon, it does indeed! I thought they were just "Mega name", not "Mega Name EX". So Crustle should definitely work. This will be the next deck I build for her. Thanks for the build and the info. Appreciated.

LimeLemon avatar

Syraphin No problem, glad I could help! Have a good day as well!

Pe7son avatar

This should play Shuckle from Mega

Pe7son avatar

https://limitlesstcg.com/cards/MEG/11

LimeLemon avatar

Pe7son This deck is outdated since it's for the Black Bolt & White Flare format. Though, Shuckle is in the deck for the Mega Evolution Base that I'll release someday.

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