Gardevoir ex Post-Rotation

Octowen Octowen Expanded 5,819 views Jan 15, 2024 Updated Jan 15, 2024
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"Life finds a way..."

Yep, we're putting Arven in Gardevoir ex. And comboing it with balloons. But it works!

Battle VIP > Buddy Poffin:

Buddy Poffin – Trainer
Item

Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Pokémon with 70 HP or less and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn.

You can do up to 300 damage with a Bravery Charm (Paldea Evolved) on Drifloon (Scarlet & Violet). Need more damage? Drifloon wearing Luxurious

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"Life finds a way..."

Yep, we're putting Arven in Gardevoir ex. And comboing it with balloons. But it works!

Battle VIP > Buddy Poffin:

Buddy Poffin – Trainer
Item

Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Pokémon with 70 HP or less and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn.

You can do up to 300 damage with a Bravery Charm (Paldea Evolved) on Drifloon (Scarlet & Violet). Need more damage? Drifloon wearing Luxurious Cape (Paradox Rift) can do 480. When playing this post-rotation, replace a Counter Catcher (Paradox Rift) with Prime Catcher, or replace Luxurious Cape with Hero's Cape.

Scream Tail (Paradox Rift) can snipe your opponent's bench, and if your oppenent has a Manaphy (Brilliant Stars) just snipe it with Drifblim (Scarlet & Violet)'s Curse Spreading attack. Scream Tail with Bravery Charm snipes for 240, KOing all meta relavent basics, and with Luxurious Cape Scream Tail snipes for 360, KOing all meta-relavent Pokémon.

Professor Turo's Scenario (Paradox Rift)  is for if you want to attack with a Scream Tail but all your energy is on a Drifblim, or vice versa, and can also be used to scoop up a Gardevoir ex when your opponent has exactly two prizes left.
Earthen Vessel (Paradox Rift) is handy for grabbing and discarding energy.

Want to play this now? I am! Just replace two Ultra Balls with two Level Ball (Battle Styles), replace a Counter Catcher with Celebrations Mew, replace the two Nest Balls with two Level Balls, and replace the other Counter Catcher with a Fog Crystal. And treat Battle VIP Pass as Battle VIP Pass.

Hope you like the deck, and feel free to comment with WHATEVER.

Card Types

Trainer 34
Pokémon 16
Energy 10

Energy Types

Psychic 14
Water 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 6 attacks
6
27.3% of attacks
2 Energy 12 attacks
12
54.5% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
18.2% of attacks

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Comments

MiqPaq49 avatar

Very cool deck.
Have you considered using the new cryptomaniac's deciphering card instead of arven? Also, you could add moonlit hill to be able to hit the 330 mark with drifloon.

Octowen avatar

MiqPaq49 that's a great idea because I already have Refinement, I will play around with it and edit the deck if I like the Cryptomaniac's Deciphering. The only issue with it is you always have to save a Refinement/Concealed Cards for grabbing the two from Cryptomaniac's Deciphering, which would make it hard to get CD in the first place. But any two cards is quite powerful, so good idea, and I'll definitely try it! Plus in scenarios where I didn't need a tool off of Arven but wanted, say, Rare Candy, I could grab both Rare Candy and any other card. Moonlit Hill is also a good idea, I'll mess around with it as well; with Buddy Poffin you don't really need Artazon as much I guess.

Iplaylostbox avatar

Octowen how many Lucarios can fit inside the earth?

Octowen avatar

Iplaylostbox you should try playing Gardevoir sometime 😜

To start things off sorry for those of you who use the metric system I'm sorry but I just can't convert every unit I use.

Ok well Lucario is 3 feet 11 inches tall. Let's say a Lucario is 4 feet tall to make things easier. If a Lucario is all squished it would probably be 4 ft (height) x 1 ft (shoulder to shoulder width) x 0.5 ft (front to back width? Length? Whatever.)

Lucario's estimated volume = 4 ft x 1 ft x 0.5 ft = 2 cubic feet, which seems about right if you think about it.

Now. The volume of Earth is 260 billion cubic miles.

1 cubic mile = (5280 to the power of 3) feet.

So 1 cubic mile = 147,197,952,000 cubic feet. And every lucario is 2 cubic feet. So we just take 147,197,952,000/2 and that’s our answer: 73,598,976,000 Lucarios will fit.

Keep in mind this is a very rough and rounded answer, but I hope it suffices.

Thanks for the comment! 😂

Marco_Ne avatar

I think that this makes sense, but I would go to 4-4 for Ralts and Kirlia, and I like either lumineon for early game consistency or gallade for late game help. Another possible addition could be pidgeot ex to give you the power to find the key pieces. A mimikyu might seem a bit weird but it could help out with lost vacuum getting rid of the tools, knocking out the active and then taking a second prize with their attack by blocking them.

Octowen avatar

Marco_Ne those are good ideas. Currently I'm setting up in the early game ok with just 3 Ralts&Kirlia, because I only ever want a maximum of 3 in play and I have Hisuian Heavy Ball if a Ralts is prized and Rare Candy if a Kirlia is prized. But I will try it out with more to see if it helps out. Mimilyu sounds like a great idea! TBH because the Gardevoir evo line has to share room with my next attacker and a Radiant Greninja or sometimes a Manaphy I don't think Luminion will work (unless I Turo-ed it but that's a waste of my Supporter for turn then) so I will try Gallade. Thanks for the advice!

Iplaylostbox avatar

Octowen I do play gardevoir, it's actually my main deck lol

Starmie23 avatar

I looked at the title and for some reason laughed so much. I don't know why an attempt at making this was so funny lol

Eminginjo avatar

hey, just came back, but why do you have 3 kirila, ill do:
3 ralts
1 kirlia
3 gardevoir ex
3 rare candy
and yea, not reading the desc too long💀

Octowen avatar

Eminginjo because the Kirlias are a draw engine. Have you played Gardevoir before?

Eminginjo avatar

Octowen as in the astral radiance one? yeah ofc and also the silver temp, wait so yr saying, I'm suppose to leave a kirila out on my bench, correct? What about a boss's orders? and also a pokemon go snorlax? bros ded💀

Octowen avatar

Eminginjo I don't think you have very much knowledge of how Gardevoir plays. Ofc you leave it on your bench. Yes, they can boss it. Who cares? If they're actively bossing the Pokémon that's not attacking them then you can just promote your Drifloon/Scream Tail that attacked last turn and use it to attack again, and bench a Ralts for a future Kirlia. Obviously you play differently against pogo Snorlax than you do against other decks. You just leave a Gardevoir ex and a bunch of scream tails and drifloons in play and no matter what they boss up you will be able to attack with it.

PokeSmart avatar

Octowen Check out my post rotation Gardevoir list and maybe leave a comment on how I can improve

Eminginjo avatar

how do u do that uh thing, where you can get a pokemon card link, snorlax got this ability so it cant retreat, yes you can use switch, but u got no switch and yes if I'm blind and there is a switch, correct me and replace it with a switch cart. but the kirlia will be dead if no switch so yeah :) 

Eminginjo avatar

and yeah i dont know much knowledge of it, but I def do know how it plays, but put in a lost vac, cuz of path to the peak

Octowen avatar

1) Path to the Peak rotates this April and I'm showing this as a post-rotation deck.

2) A quote from my previous post that you apparently did not read: "Obviously you play differently against pogo Snorlax than you do against other decks. You just leave a Gardevoir ex and a bunch of scream tails and drifloons in play and no matter what they boss up you will be able to attack with it."

Eminginjo avatar

Octowen never remembered post-rotation as a thing. I did read it btw. and still getting into the meta cards rn

EDIT: bro ping me I was just scrolling through my deck comments and just pressed it its been 3 days

Octowen avatar

Makes sense. Sorry for jumping to conclusions Eminginjo. Wdym by ping you? Just tag you again if u haven't responded for a bit?

Eminginjo avatar

yes its tag well I use the word ping cuz I still get a notification also its fine :)) 

Octowen avatar

Eminginjo oh yeah you're right I usually remember to continue tagging in conversations but I didn't this time, my bad.

Eminginjo avatar

wait one quick ques: what does post-rotation mean again?

Octowen avatar

Eminginjo this April the Standard format rotates and only cards with F, G, and H regulation marks will be playable.

Eminginjo avatar

is this list reliable? https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-tcg-2024-standard-rotation-guide/ (scroll down to What Is The 2024 Standard Rotation?)

Octowen avatar

Like answer you now/here? I guess I just did.

Eminginjo avatar

yo this email i got 3 days ago, it looks weird, but true https://imgur.com/a/JECtWnC

Eminginjo avatar

are u ded (dont intepret it wrong, I mean are you still online on pokemoncard.io)

Octowen avatar

Not dead but don't usually click random links that people post. Thanks for checking in on me though 💀 😂 

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