Excavation Crew (GLC Fighting)

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Any suggestions are welcome

Fighting is probably one of the hardest decks to pilot in GLC. While other decks get to have various support Pokemon, Fighting only has attackers. Most lists focus on low-energy attackers and early-game aggression, but personally, it just ends up feeling like a worse lightning deck. Then I remembered rototiller Excadrill, which was the focus of the best control decks in expanded, and with the new ancient pokemon from Standard, I made a mill deck. With Excadrill, you can

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Any suggestions are welcome

Fighting is probably one of the hardest decks to pilot in GLC. While other decks get to have various support Pokemon, Fighting only has attackers. Most lists focus on low-energy attackers and early-game aggression, but personally, it just ends up feeling like a worse lightning deck. Then I remembered rototiller Excadrill, which was the focus of the best control decks in expanded, and with the new ancient pokemon from Standard, I made a mill deck. With Excadrill, you can make use of Hapu, Explorers guidance, and Bea. Explorers guidance turns on your great tusk, bea can attach any energy including special energy and Hapu is just for extra consistency (hapu is likely the most cutable card). These cards wouldn't be considered for most GLC decks due to discarding being so bad in a format with only singletons, but Rototiller makes sure any cards you might need in a later turn will be in your deck at all points of the game. All while you are chipping away your opponent's deck with any of your mill attackers. Machamp also works as a late-game wall to stall out your opponent. If your excadrill ends up prized, your millers have useable attacks to fish it from the prizes and can guarantee it with a town map. This is definitely uncharted territory and wanted to see if anyone can tell me how to improve it.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (10)
1 Donphan sv4pt5-49
$0.04 Fighting 150
1 Machamp swsh11-88
$0.32 Fighting 150
1 Great Tusk sv5-97
$0.04 Fighting 140
1 Slither Wing sv4-107
$0.12 Fighting 140
1 Excadrill sm11-119
$0.31 Fighting 120
1 Machoke sm2-64
$0.21 Fighting 100
1 Carbink sm8-117
$0.17 Fighting 90
1 Drilbur sv5-85
$0.11 Fighting 70
1 Machop swsh11-86
$0.23 Fighting 70
1 Phanpy swsh4-86
$0.21 Fighting 70
Trainer (38)
1 Air Balloon swsh1-156
$0.31
1 AZ xy4-91
$0.37
1 Bea swsh4-147
$0.03
1 Bicycle bw8-117
$3.95
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.40
1 Brooklet Hill sm2-120
$0.35
1 Calamitous Wasteland sv2-175
$0.14
1 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
Trainer (38)
1 Cynthia sm5-119
$0.70
1 Eri sv5-146
$0.17
1 Evolution Incense swsh1-163
$0.23
1 Explorer's Guidance sv5-147
$0.12
1 Float Stone bw9-99
$6.33
1 Focus Sash xy3-91
$0.61
1 Gutsy Pickaxe swsh10-145
$0.21
1 Guzma sm3-115
$3.38
1 Guzma & Hala sm12-193
$7.34
1 Hapu sm11-200
$0.33
1 Heavy Ball xy8-140
$0.52
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.28
1 Korrina xy3-95
$3.14
1 Level Ball swsh5-129
$0.23
1 Lusamine sm4-96
$0.40
1 Luxurious Cape sv4-166
$0.18
1 Marnie swsh1-169
$0.38
1 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
Trainer (38)
1 Ordinary Rod swsh1-171
$0.29
1 Pokégear 3.0 sm10-182
$1.10
1 Professor Sada's Vitality sv4-170
$0.16
1 Scoop Up Net swsh2-165
$0.41
1 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.31
1 Teammates xy5-141
$2.50
1 Town Map xy8-150
$2.34
1 Town Store sv3-196
$0.26
1 Trainers' Mail xy6-92
$2.32
1 Trekking Shoes swsh12pt5-145
$0.11
1 Ultra Ball sv4pt5-91
$0.25
1 VS Seeker xy4-109
$4.25
Energy (12)
8 Basic Fighting Energy sve-6
$0.09 Fighting
1 Double Colorless Energy sm1-136
$0.42 Colorless
1 Double Turbo Energy swsh9-151
$0.27
1 Stone Fighting Energy swsh4-164
$0.23 Fighting
1 Twin Energy swsh2-174
$0.27

Card Types

Trainer 38
Energy 12
Pokémon 10

Energy Types

Fighting 10

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 5 attacks
5
31.3% of attacks
2 Energy 7 attacks
7
43.8% of attacks
3 Energy 3 attacks
3
18.8% of attacks
4 Energy 1 attack
6.3% of attacks

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