Hisuian Zoroark Single Prize Control Deck

I can already hear the comments saying Hisuian Zoroark is bad because your opponent has lots of counters such as jet energy, switch cards, scoop up cyclone, Penny, mist energy, beach court etc.  Those cards are certainly are threat to this deck.  However, I’ve found most decks don’t seem to playing enough of them and I’ve had a much higher win rate with this deck than I expected.  This isn’t going to be a meta deck, but a lot of other decks aren’t expecting

I can already hear the comments saying Hisuian Zoroark is bad because your opponent has lots of counters such as jet energy, switch cards, scoop up cyclone, Penny, mist energy, beach court etc.  Those cards are certainly are threat to this deck.  However, I’ve found most decks don’t seem to playing enough of them and I’ve had a much higher win rate with this deck than I expected.  This isn’t going to be a meta deck, but a lot of other decks aren’t expecting it.  Which makes it fun.  The deck is based around Hisuian Zoroark attack Doom Curse.  At the end of your opponents next turn, their Pokémon is knocked out.  Your opponent needs to move their Pokémon out of the active, so we’re trying to do our best to stop that.  Calamitous Wasteland makes things a little more difficult for them increasing a basic Pokémon’s retreat by one.  I’ve added in Ariados which increases the retreat cost of evolution Pokémon by one.  Feel free to switch this out for Spidops ex.  However, that is a two prize liability.  The deck I have here is all single prize cards.  I tried Spidops ex in this deck and it just ends up being moved to the active by boss’s orders, prime catcher, counter catcher and knocked out.  If you do choose to use it I recommend changing the energy count.  Take out two of the luminous energy cards and replace them with grass energy.  This way you can also attack with Spidops ex.  Next, we turn this into a quasi-control deck.  Since there are a number of low HP Pokémon in the deck, Rabsca is there to protect them.  If bench attacks aren’t going to be an issue in your match they’re great fodder for the Ultra Balls.  If Rellor happened to be your only basic at the start of the match and you don’t need it, use Professors Truo’s Scenario to get it out of play.  Your opponent is going to do their best to knock out Bibarel and shut down your draw engine.  Place a Cursed Duster on Bibarel to make it less appealing for them to knock out.  Try to get both in play if they’re not prized.  Speaking of the Cursed Duster, they’re part of the quasi-control strategy.  They’ll discard a random card from your opponent’s deck when they knock you out.  They’re also useful discard fodder when grabbing an Ultra Ball with Arven.  The Crushing Hammers to remove energy, Eri, and Miss Fortune Sisters to remove those pesky switch cards from play.  The enhanced hammer is needed for mist energies.  Why the 3 Luminous energies?  Well Hisuian Zoroark, Rabsca, and Ariados all have a one energy attack and you can use them to retreat Pokémon.  Playing this deck with no energy is an option.  However, they also allow for a late game strategy with Hisuian Zoroark and its Call Back attack.  You can potentially trap one of their Pokémon in the active spot and use Call Back to get the cards you need to make sure they stay there.  Skwovet should prevent you from decking out in this scenario.