Elephunk (151 Copperajah ex)

Paisley Park, After Dark Paisley Park, After Dark Expanded 2,918 views Oct 03, 2023 Updated Oct 03, 2023
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Time to address the elephant in the room

Wanted to build a deck around Copperajah ex and the new Rigid Band, which essentially gives the elephant 360 total HP alongside its ability, making it more bulky than VMAX Pokemon. Bronzong's Metal Transfer allows you to move energy off of Copperajah to heal with Cheryl before moving it back and allowing you to swing for a respectable 260 damage - it also has the benefit of letting you move energy attached with Energy Sticker (though this is more of a meme,

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Time to address the elephant in the room

Wanted to build a deck around Copperajah ex and the new Rigid Band, which essentially gives the elephant 360 total HP alongside its ability, making it more bulky than VMAX Pokemon. Bronzong's Metal Transfer allows you to move energy off of Copperajah to heal with Cheryl before moving it back and allowing you to swing for a respectable 260 damage - it also has the benefit of letting you move energy attached with Energy Sticker (though this is more of a meme, you might see more success with Magnezone (Astral Radiance)).

Another exciting addition to the deck is Mew ex which, on top of its obvious benefit as a drawing card, can also swing with its Genome Hacking attack. Popular Pokemon that can be KO'd with their own attacks include Miraidon ex (Scarlet & Violet), Tyranitar V (Battle Styles), Giratina VSTAR, and most notably Charizard ex (151) which would otherwise be a massive hinderance for this deck as it hits Copperajah for weakness.

Most other cards are self explanatory, Choice Belt lets you OHKO VSTAR Pokemon, Crystal Cave and Tsareena heal off Copperajah's annoying bench damage, Squawkabilly gives you early game setup and can help you discard energy for the Sticker. Cram-O-Matic performs a similar role as in Mew VMAX decks, freeing hand space for Mew's limited drawing effect, though you could potentially switch it for something like Trekking Shoes if you wanted.

I've been toying with Radiant Greninja for energy discard, but Tsareena's healing is typically more useful. Bronzong (Astral Radiance) has an ability that can completely block damage from Fire types, but since Charizard ex (Obsidian Flames) is Darkness it wouldn't be able to wall out that deck anyway. Also its a completely fringe case but the Cufant I'm running in this deck is Single Strike, meaning that Drapion V (Lost Origin) might be able to get an early KO on you - this is a situation that is so unlikely to happen that I think the extra damage this Cufant can offer is still better but if you're afraid of this Cufant (Paldea Evolved) is a fine replacement.

As always, any input is appreciated :]

 

Card Types

Trainer 38
Pokémon 14
Energy 8

Energy Types

Metal 10
Psychic 2
Colorless 1
Grass 1

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1 Energy 6 attacks
6
31.6% of attacks
2 Energy 2 attacks
2
10.5% of attacks
3 Energy 11 attacks
11
57.9% of attacks

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xavo7387 avatar

I have to ask, does this work well for you? It seems super good on paper! Is it consistent in practice? There isn't much set up involved so it looks like it would be.

Paisley Park, After Dark avatar

xavo7387 Yeah, I've had a good amount of success with it on PTCGL and it has decent matchups against most of the top decks at the moment. Probably not perfect by any means but I wouldn't upload a deck on here if I hadn't tested it to make sure it's worth posting :]

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