Gholdengo ex/Doom Curse

SplinteredLantern SplinteredLantern Expanded 995 views Jun 26, 2024 Updated Jul 05, 2024
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Trying to find an interesting variation on Gholdengo ex (Paradox Rift) that doesn't use Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR (Astral Radiance).

Doom Curse from Hisuian Zoroark (Lost Origin) forces your opponent to use their resources to deal with it or lose their active Pokemon, offering a potential stall or cheap knockout in a pinch. On top of that, Call Back gives you a last resort option for recovering a Superior Energy Retrieval (Paldea Evolved) from the discard.

Beyond being a compact bench barrier, Rabsca

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Trying to find an interesting variation on Gholdengo ex (Paradox Rift) that doesn't use Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR (Astral Radiance).

Doom Curse from Hisuian Zoroark (Lost Origin) forces your opponent to use their resources to deal with it or lose their active Pokemon, offering a potential stall or cheap knockout in a pinch. On top of that, Call Back gives you a last resort option for recovering a Superior Energy Retrieval (Paldea Evolved) from the discard.

Beyond being a compact bench barrier, Rabsca (Temporal Forces) offers another cheap alternative to dealing damage to those pokemon that scale damage by accelerating energy like Armarouge ex (Paradox Rift).

Per usual, Radiant Greninja (Astral Radiance) is a wonderful option for draw and bench damage, and Revavroom (Scarlet & Violet) helps with draw as well.

With all these stage 1 Pokemon, I opted for Hyper Aroma (Twilight Masquerade) over other Ace Spec options to help with setup.

I'm open to suggestions, so please let me know if you have any ideas for improvement.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (17)
4 Gholdengo ex sv4-139
$1.36 Metal 260
2 Revavroom sv1-142
$0.11 Metal 140
1 Radiant Greninja swsh10-46
$3.11 Water 130
1 Hisuian Zoroark swsh11-76
$0.36 Psychic 120
1 Rabsca sv5-24
$0.15 Grass 70
1 Hisuian Zorua swsh11-75
$0.20 Psychic 60
2 Varoom sv4pt5-64
$0.06 Metal 60
2 Gimmighoul sv4-87
$0.18 Psychic 50
2 Gimmighoul sv4pt5-44
$0.13 Psychic 50
1 Rellor sv2-26
$0.11 Grass 50
Trainer (28)
2 Adaman swsh10-135
$0.24
3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
3 Capturing Aroma swsh12-153
$0.17
2 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking sv5-145
$0.17
1 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
3 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
1 Energy Retrieval sv1-171
$0.24
2 Full Metal Lab sv5-148
$0.22 Metal
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.30
1 Hyper Aroma sv6-152
$0.32
Trainer (28)
2 Lady swsh11-159
$0.22
1 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.30
4 Superior Energy Retrieval sv2-189
$0.31
2 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
Energy (15)
1 Basic Grass Energy sve-1
$0.17 Grass
11 Basic Metal Energy sve-8
$0.14 Metal
1 Basic Psychic Energy sve-5
$0.20 Psychic
2 Basic Water Energy sve-3
$0.10 Water

Card Types

Trainer 28
Pokémon 17
Energy 15

Energy Types

Metal 8
Psychic 6
Grass 2
Water 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 17 attacks
17
68.0% of attacks
2 Energy 5 attacks
5
20.0% of attacks
3 Energy 1 attack
4.0% of attacks
4 Energy 2 attacks
8.0% of attacks

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