Iron Thorns ex (Post-Rotation)

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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Arven (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Calamitous Wasteland (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Earthen Vessel (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Giovanni's Charisma (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Pal Pad (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Penny (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Professor's Research (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Devolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Turbo Energize (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Techno Radar (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Town Store (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

This deck hasn't seen much play for a while but is still pretty good in the Post-Rotation Format.

Strategy: You will most likely take a couple Mulligans due to having only 4 Pokémon, however your Opponent will have no abilities for their ex's which shuts off things like Squawk, Latias ex, Mew, and Fez. Calamitous Wasteland is here to help force one of your Opponent's Active Pokémon to stay trapped in the Active. Town Store helps you search out for tools, Devolution can help

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This deck hasn't seen much play for a while but is still pretty good in the Post-Rotation Format.

Strategy: You will most likely take a couple Mulligans due to having only 4 Pokémon, however your Opponent will have no abilities for their ex's which shuts off things like Squawk, Latias ex, Mew, and Fez. Calamitous Wasteland is here to help force one of your Opponent's Active Pokémon to stay trapped in the Active. Town Store helps you search out for tools, Devolution can help knock out things like Pult and Zard if you damaged them enough. Techno Radar helps search for more Iron Thorn ex's. Crushing Hammer helps slow your opponent down even more. Xeroisc's Machinations ruins your opponent's hand size. Giovanni's Charisma helps ruin your Opponent's chance to attack even more, and allows you to attach an Energy onto your own Thorns. Boss's Orders and Pokémon Catcher help force up your Opponent's Pokémon against their own will. The ACE SPEC of choice, Prime Catcher helps switch into another Thorns and bring up something from your Opponent's side as well. Penny helps reset an Iron Thorns so your opponent may fail to knock it out. Colress's Tenacity helps get out Mist Energy and a Stadium of choice. Mist Energy is here to just prevent the effects of your Opponent's attack. Additionally, Enhanced Hammer helps remove a Special Energy from one of your Opponent's Pokémon thoughts this could probably be replaced with something else. Anyways, feel free to make any changes or leave any suggestions!

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (4)
4 Iron Thorns ex sv6-77
$0.68 Lightning 230
Trainer (47)
4 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
4 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.39
1 Calamitous Wasteland sv2-175
$0.15
1 Colress's Tenacity sv6pt5-57
$0.30
4 Crushing Hammer sv1-168
$0.19
1 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
1 Enhanced Hammer sv6-148
$0.14
3 Future Booster Energy Capsule sv5-149
$0.10
1 Giovanni's Charisma sv3pt5-161
$0.20
Trainer (47)
2 Iono sv2-185
$0.25
4 Judge sv1-176
$0.22
1 Pal Pad sv1-182
$0.25
2 Penny sv1-183
$0.16
4 Pokégear 3.0 sv1-186
$0.36
4 Pokémon Catcher sv1-187
$0.26
1 Prime Catcher sv5-157
$1.23
2 Professor's Research sv4pt5-87
$0.19
1 Technical Machine: Devolution sv4-177
$0.20
1 Technical Machine: Turbo Energize sv4-179
$0.23
2 Techno Radar sv4-180
$0.07
2 Town Store sv3-196
$0.27
1 Xerosic's Machinations sv6pt5-64
$0.24
Energy (9)
7 Basic Lightning Energy sve-12
$0.07 Lightning
2 Mist Energy sv5-161
$1.24

Card Types

Trainer 47
Energy 9
Pokémon 4

Energy Types

Lightning 11

Energy Curve

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar
Waffle Enthusiast

Interesting list, and also that's almost 50 Trainer Cards which is insane though it's sn Iron Thorns deck so makes sense. Anyways, couldn't Ruffian replace Enhanced Hammer?

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LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you for your feedback! Also, yeah Ruffian is probably better than Enhanced Hammer since it also discards a Tool.

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LimeLemon

Pyxel  Thank you for your feedback and have a good day!

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