Freeze Lock V4

Tangent Tangent Expanded 972 views Aug 20, 2024 Updated Aug 24, 2024
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I have been constantly revising my Articuno deck, and this is what I believe to be the optimal version, as of Shrouded Fable. The idea is that you go second and use Turbo Energize to power up your Articuno to paralyze on the following turn. You can then use Adrena-Brain to KO your opponent's pokemon so they have to promote a new one to get paralyzed. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave a comment.

Update: Given the prevelance of Regidrago at Worlds, I have updated the deck with

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I have been constantly revising my Articuno deck, and this is what I believe to be the optimal version, as of Shrouded Fable. The idea is that you go second and use Turbo Energize to power up your Articuno to paralyze on the following turn. You can then use Adrena-Brain to KO your opponent's pokemon so they have to promote a new one to get paralyzed. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave a comment.

Update: Given the prevelance of Regidrago at Worlds, I have updated the deck with Manaphy to buy a turn against Trifrost, and Artazon to bait out Temple of Sinnoh which I can Lost Vacuum away for Neutralization Zone, if I can get the cards in my hand. I also swapped Boss for an Iron Bundle, as they share the same purpose and Iron Bundle doesn't use up my supporter for the turn.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (11)
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.37 Darkness 210
4 Articuno swsh12-36
$0.47 Water 110
4 Munkidori sv6-95
$0.28 Psychic 110
1 Iron Bundle sv4-56
$0.19 Water 100
1 Manaphy swsh9-41
$0.32 Water 70
Trainer (39)
1 Artazon sv4pt5-76
$0.27
4 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.39
2 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.30
Trainer (39)
1 Iono sv4pt5-80
$0.32
1 Lost Vacuum swsh12pt5-135
$0.08
4 Nest Ball sv4pt5-84
$0.31
1 Neutralization Zone sv6pt5-60
$1.14
4 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.30
2 Pokégear 3.0 sv1-186
$0.36
4 Professor's Research (Professor Sada) sv1-189
$0.18
3 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.30
2 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
4 Technical Machine: Turbo Energize sv4-179
$0.23
4 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
Energy (10)
3 Basic Darkness Energy sve-7
$0.11 Darkness
6 Basic Water Energy sve-3
$0.10 Water
1 Luminous Energy sv2-191
$0.30

Card Types

Trainer 39
Pokémon 11
Energy 10

Energy Types

Water 6
Psychic 4
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 5 attacks
5
33.3% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
53.3% of attacks
3 Energy 2 attacks
2
13.3% of attacks

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Comments

Siegislash avatar
Siegislash

Nice take.

Suggestions:

 

- I see what ur cooking with turbo energize, but 4 is a bit much, especially considering you have a full playset of arven

- Counter Catcher could help, especially considering in your deck desciption you implied you intended a knock out by the opponent

 

The rest of the deck honestly looks pretty good.

Hope I helped! 🥰

Tangent avatar
Tangent

Siegislash I get that 4 seems like a bit much, but in my testing I had some consistency issues, and any boost is extremely helpful, especially if I have to Iono or Research into a TM Turbo. I also like to use it as discard fodder from an Arven if I need to search for an earthen vessel, or for Ultra Ball. I did some testing with Counter Catcher, and the times that my opponent took a knock out was when they broke a lock, and the times when I need to gust is when I can't ko with Adrena Brain, but Wild Freeze would KO, typically after I take a KO, meaning that I am up on prizes. I would prefer a Pokemon Catcher for that situation since Counter Catcher likely won't activate. If I am gusting around a lot without efficiently taking knock outs, it might be helpful, but that is a different version of the deck. Thank you though, and I will likely make a more control oriented version soon!

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