Dark Rebirth (Dark Sylveon/Gardy)

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Have you ever wanted to play Gardevoir but BAD? (And funny)

This deck relies on Gardevoir as an engine to power up Sylveon, which can mess with your opponent's hand with its Tricky Ribbon attack and potentially force them to top deck for resources. In the early game you should focus on taking KOs with Zacian and Gardevoir, going into Sylveon once your opponent has taken a few prizes and Iono can devastate their hand.

Though Sylveon doesn't have great HP, Ribbon Badge allows it to become a single prizer

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Have you ever wanted to play Gardevoir but BAD? (And funny)

This deck relies on Gardevoir as an engine to power up Sylveon, which can mess with your opponent's hand with its Tricky Ribbon attack and potentially force them to top deck for resources. In the early game you should focus on taking KOs with Zacian and Gardevoir, going into Sylveon once your opponent has taken a few prizes and Iono can devastate their hand.

Though Sylveon doesn't have great HP, Ribbon Badge allows it to become a single prizer which somewhat mitigates this. Even with its lower HP it avoids KOs from Cramorant after taking 60 damage from Psychic Embrace, or Sableye after 40 damage + manual attachment. Spiritomb shuts down Genesect V, completely preventing draw in DTE Mew decks and forcing the opponent to waste their energy in Fusion Strike Energy decks. The rest of the list is pretty generic Gardevoir stuff.

You could potentially run Crushing Hammer for more disruption, but I couldn't find room for it. If you're struggling vs Path most Gardy decks run Worker which can replace Avery, though once you get the hand lock going the chances of your opponent finding Path and it being useful in the situation become slim. Other than that feel free to make suggestions, this is the first time I've tried to make a somewhat meta deck since, like, the Sun and Moon era lol.

Card Types

Trainer 33
Pokémon 18
Energy 9

Energy Types

Psychic 17
Water 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 5 attacks
5
23.8% of attacks
2 Energy 7 attacks
7
33.3% of attacks
3 Energy 9 attacks
9
42.9% of attacks

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Comments

Aloe avatar

I'm definitly trying this out!

eric avatar

Bless you... I tried to make this card work for so long in CRZ with baby Gardy.

Nocruor0 avatar

You can REALLY cheese the battle by using the new Legacy Energy Ace Spec card to completely deny the opponent from taking a prize for a sylveon v. That is a great way to be a real pain.

But Greninja is a potential waste (your energy count is limited here) You can remove Greninja and the Super Rod in favor of Twilight Masquerade's Lana supporter who can fetch any number of 3 basic energies that were discarded and any non rule box pokemon straight into your hand instead of shuffle.
This can also counteract energies sent to discard pile by Refinement.

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