Glimmora Shortchanges Your Opponent

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Glimmora's Ability (Shattering Crystal) makes it so that when it is knocked out (no matter what it's knocked out by) you flip a coin, and if heads, your opponent gets no prize cards for it. So I made a deck based around it.

Main attacker~Glimmora: does some 6-damage-counter-poison for one energy

Support~Radiant Hisuian Sneasler: adds 2 damage counters to the poison.

Draw Engine~Bibarel/Skwovet: you know how these work.

Manaphy: Basic bench barrier stuff

Now here's where things get spicy: your opponent

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Glimmora's Ability (Shattering Crystal) makes it so that when it is knocked out (no matter what it's knocked out by) you flip a coin, and if heads, your opponent gets no prize cards for it. So I made a deck based around it.

Main attacker~Glimmora: does some 6-damage-counter-poison for one energy

Support~Radiant Hisuian Sneasler: adds 2 damage counters to the poison.

Draw Engine~Bibarel/Skwovet: you know how these work.

Manaphy: Basic bench barrier stuff

Now here's where things get spicy: your opponent will often play lots of switch cards and/or retreat to prevent their Pokémon from getting knocked out by poison, leaving them with damaged benched Pokémon. You can also engineer this yourself using your boss's orders to switch a few damaged Pokémon of your opponent's to the bench. Then, after taking at least two prizes and setting things up correctly, you can finish the game using Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX's G-Max Rapid Flow to do 120 damage to two of your opponent's Pokémon, ideally drawing four prize cards.

You don't need to finish all games this way, some games can be won by playing Boss to bring up a retreated damaged benched Pokémon of your opponent's and using Poison Petals on it to knock it out. However, Gigantimax Urshifu VMAX can be a good finisher in games where you've fallen behind on prizes due to some failed Shattering Crystals.

I hope you enjoy the deck, and I'm open to suggestions in the comments!

Card Types

Trainer 30
Pokémon 20
Energy 10

Energy Types

Colorless 9
Fighting 9
Darkness 1
Water 1

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1 Energy 10 attacks
10
45.5% of attacks
2 Energy 5 attacks
5
22.7% of attacks
3 Energy 7 attacks
7
31.8% of attacks

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