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GLC Psychic High Energy Deck

GLC Psychic High Energy Deck

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Deck Primer

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GLC Psychic High Energy Deck centered around Gardevoir and its Psychic Mirage Ability.
I call Decks containing Pokémon with such Abilities "High Energy" Decks since 1 Basic Energy provides more/higher energy than usual.

Game plan/-play:
1) Start/Early Game:
-> The priority in Early Game is to get your two card drawing Pokémon on the bench. Therefore, try to get Xatu and Kirlia into play as fast as possible.
-> Additionally, you can put Mystery Garden into play early to draw cards if you already have 5 or 6 Pokémon in play and Xatu and/or Kirlia are prized. Else, get Artazon as Stadium into play first.
-> Try to get Cresselia into Active Spot for the first few turns. It helps to set up the main attackers of the deck and can then functions as damaging attacker.

2) Mid-Game:
-> Your main attackers are Exeggutor, Fezandipiti and Deoxys.
-> Once one of them is set up, get it into Active Spot and evolve Kirlia into Gardevoir to make use of its Psychic Mirage Ability.
-> Use Exeggutor first as attacking Pokémon if you already have many Basic Psychic Energy attached to your Pokémon. It needs many energy cards attached to your Pokémon to use its full potential but can deal huge damage for 1 energy, especially with Gardevoir in play.
-> Fezandipiti needs Blend Energy GrassFirePsychicDarkness attached to it to make use of its Ability. However, with a bit of coin-flip luck, it's very hard to remove from play and can deal good damage.
-> Deoxys takes the longest to set up but also has the potential to snipe Pokémon on opponent's bench.
-> Wishful Baton is usually attached to Fezandipiti or Deoxys since those two have the most energy attached in a normal game.

3) Late Game/Being behind:
-> Nothing special here except the same rotation as in Early and Mid-Game. Of course, if Gardevoir is knocked out, try to get it back into play as quickly as possible since it's the backbone of the deck.

Disclaimer:
- Comments, ideas, etc. are welcome!
- All my decks are mostly built around a theme and built for fun games in the local GLC friends group and LGS.
- Since I'm not a competitive player, this deck it's not meant/recommended for GLC tournament play.
- All my decks have been built/are organized on limitlesstcg.com beforehand and have been tested in https://ptcgsim.online/ and games against friends. They have gone through a lot of changes and I compared them with decks from other players (GLC tournament decks, pokemoncard.io, cardboardwarriors.net, etc.) before I upload them. So I think they are okay as they are.
- However, I'm still open to recommendations for cards that fit into the deck's “theme” and can improve it.
- My decks are subject to change as I update them regularly when new GLC legal sets/cards release.