Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals)

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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • 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.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Professor Turo's Scenario (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Super Rod (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Tanks damage hard, hits back even harder and draws you cards.

Strategy Breakdown 

Prefer going first so you can set up your board; this deck needs two turns of setup and doesn't use rare candy.

Main Attacker

Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals) It can go head to head with most of the decks regardless if they are 2 prizers Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade) or single prizers like Ethan's Typhlosion (Destined Rivals) 

Against Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade), you

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Tanks damage hard, hits back even harder and draws you cards.

Strategy Breakdown 

Prefer going first so you can set up your board; this deck needs two turns of setup and doesn't use rare candy.

Main Attacker

Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals) It can go head to head with most of the decks regardless if they are 2 prizers Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade) or single prizers like Ethan's Typhlosion (Destined Rivals) 

Against Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade), you have to set up 2 Rabsca (Temporal Forces) and in the remaining bench 3 spots, you need 2 Cynthia's Roserade (Destined Rivals)  and 1 Cynthia's Gabite (Destined Rivals), which can find all the Cynthia's pokemon with its Champion's call ability.

Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals) does 260 damage for 2 fighting energy, and with 2 Cynthia's Roserade (Destined Rivals) on the bench, each boosting Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals)  damage by 30, you are hitting them for 320, 1HKOing their Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade) all the while they are just doing 200 damage and not placing any counters on your bench pokemon, thanks to Rabsca (Temporal Forces) Spherical Shield ability and. When you add in Cynthia's Power Weight (Destined Rivals) giving your Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals) 400 HP in total, it will take them 2 turns to take down one Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals) 

If you find your Boss's Orders (Brilliant Stars) early go for knockouts on their Drakloak (Twilight Masquerade) with enrgy attachement.

You have to take down 2 Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade) and 1 Fezandipiti ex (Shrouded Fable) to win the game. If they run Charizard ex (Obsidian Flames),you will need 3 copies of Cynthia's Roserade (Destined Rivals) on the bench to boost the damage to 350.

• Against Gholdengo ex (Paradox Rift) it's a really tough matchup, and you have to 1HKO them with your second attack with 2 energies while they can 1HKO you every turn. Since your Cynthia's Roserade (Destined Rivals)  doesn't do anything, you sacrifice them and hand disrupt them with Iono (Paldea Evolved) and your ace spec Unfair Stamp (Twilight Masquerade) after every single time after they take a knockout so they are busy searching for Superior Energy Retrieval (Paldea Evolved) with Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking (Temporal Forces) instead of Boss's Orders (Brilliant Stars) your benched Cynthia's Gabite (Destined Rivals) or Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Destined Rivals) 

Again, the same as Dragapult ex (Twilight Masquerade), you take down 2 Gholdengo ex (Paradox Rift) and then boss the Fezandipiti ex (Shrouded Fable) for the last 2 prizes.

• Against Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex (Destined Rivals), you boss around the one prizers first, like Snorunt (Paradox Rift) and Munkidori (Twilight Masquerade). while they are setting up Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex (Destined Rivals) you 1HKO thier Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex (Destined Rivals) when it comes online and finally boss Fezandipiti ex (Shrouded Fable) to win the game. Again here Rabsca (Temporal Forces) comes in clutch to prevent bench damage from Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex (Destined Rivals) 

• Against Ethan's Typhlosion (Destined Rivals), you need 3 copies of Cynthia's Roserade (Destined Rivals) on the bench to 1 shot their 170 HP and while you set up your bench, you can boss their Ethan's Quilava (Destined Rivals) so they can't search for Ethan's Adventure (Destined Rivals) with its ability.

 

Card Types

Trainer 32
Pokémon 22
Energy 6

Energy Types

Fighting 17
Grass 10
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 18 attacks
18
72.0% of attacks
2 Energy 3 attacks
3
12.0% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
16.0% of attacks

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