Delphox/Entei Lost Box

Hey, cool deck! I've been messing a lot lately with Delphox LZB and it's been amazing since it can easily trade 2 for 4 prizes. Entei is an interesting pick, and I've never thought about it. It looks cool, yeah. Raiku is the standard choice between the three dogs because it's retreat only cost 1 energy and energy variety allows Mirage Gate to get more millage out of itself, but otherwise, cool deck yeah.

I see consistency is a problem so heres a list of changes:
- 3 Basic Fire Energy (Scarlet & Violet Energies) 
- 2 Delphox V (Lost Origin)
- 1 Entei V (Brilliant Stars) 
- 2 Super Rod (Paldea Evolved)
- 1 Magma Basin (Brilliant Stars)
- 1 Iono (Paldea Evolved)
- 1 Pal Pad (Scarlet & Violet)
- 1 Canceling Cologne (Astral Radiance) 

You really don't need all 3 Delphoxes and 2 Enteis, one of each will suffice, and that allows for some energy to be cut. Usually for LZ its worth it to only run one Iono since the the point of LZ is to build up a sizeable hand and Roxxane is the prefferable of the two, but you can run both anyways. Cancelling Cologne seems like a niche option but one could be alright, and there's no real scenario where you would want to bring anything else in with Pal Pad. The other changes are just declutters to make space for the constency cards.

+ 3 Escape Rope (Battle Styles)
+ 1 Manaphy (Brilliant Stars)
+ 1 Hisuian Heavy Ball (Astral Radiance) 
+ 1 Klara (Chilling Reign) 
+ 1 Roxanne (Astral Radiance)
+ 1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Paldea Evolved) 
+ 1 Counter Catcher (Paradox Rift) 
+ 1 Basic Water Energy (Scarlet & Violet Energies) 
+ 1 Forest Seal Stone (Silver Tempest)
+ 1 Lost Vacuum (Lost Origin) 

Since you're running Entei you really need the extra switch options otherwise realistically it won't be able to get out of the active. Heavy Ball allows you to fetch anything thats prized, of course. The extra water energy is for better consistency for Rad Gren. Running two Vs and no Seal Stone? The rest are the standard LZ consistency card picks that most other LZs run.

So yeah, that's pretty much it. I would personally go for Radian Zard but thats cuz im a SableZard simp. Hope these changes help you out, and have fun!

slugmeonei

Thanks for the comment! Personally I think that I'm going to play 3 Delphox because without them it lowers the Pokémon count a bit more than I like. But I think taking out a Entei V will open up nicely for an Rope which I was already going to trade in with a Nest Ball. Canceling Cologne for Forest Seal Stone is probably the optimal choice. The only reason Freninja is in this list is because it pairs nicely with Magma Basin, but the choice is yours. I'll look into your suggestions!

For LZB its suggested to have as high as 4 nest balls since you want to get your pokemon out consistently. Running LZB involves playing reactionary most, if not, all the time, so you there are going to be situations where you will Colress and Flower Select poorer options than you would have had otherwise if you have unneccesary copies of cards.

If you're worried about a low Pokemon count (that being 13 which is already a fin enough count for LZB if you were to only run 1 of Entei, Delphox and the Manaphy) then you can tech in Ditto (151) basically functioning as half a VIP Pass giving you the choice of either choosing to turn into a Comfey or donk with Cramo turn 1 if going second.

In general, LZB doesn't play like any of the other standard decks so having a low Pokemon count is just the way its been proven to work. But yeah, hope you have fun!