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Colress135 Colress135 Expanded 18,204 views Apr 05, 2023 Updated Apr 26, 2023
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Scarlet and Violet is finally out, and with it comes new cards. My new favorite in this set is Banette ex, which, for 1 psychic energy, prevents your opponent from playing any items during their next turn. Which is very annoying to your opponent, to say the least.

A pretty cheap deck, good for non-competitive gameplay and for driving people absolutely bonkers. The aim of the game? Make your oppnent deck out.

 

Choose to go second, you need those supporters.

Use Spidops ex to trap your opponent's

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Scarlet and Violet is finally out, and with it comes new cards. My new favorite in this set is Banette ex, which, for 1 psychic energy, prevents your opponent from playing any items during their next turn. Which is very annoying to your opponent, to say the least.

A pretty cheap deck, good for non-competitive gameplay and for driving people absolutely bonkers. The aim of the game? Make your oppnent deck out.

 

Choose to go second, you need those supporters.

Use Spidops ex to trap your opponent's active. They can't use switch, forcing them to retreat, wasting their energy. Which is what we want. Pidgoet V is included so that you do not fall to the fate you seal to your opponent. Obviously, Pidgeot V prevents you from ever decking out. Just watch out for Path to the Peak.

Never use Banette's Poltergeist attack in this build until you can one shot, because you want your opponent to never be able to play any items. One slip could lose you the game. Make sure to boss support pokemon who won't touch you, and pray they have a high retreat cost.

Use Alakazam's Painful Spoons ability to move your placed damage to the beefy benched pokemon, as to not KO the trapped one.

 

If you have any suggestions, please post them down in the comments section.

I hope you have fun with this evil deck. And may you never lose a battle with it.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (16)
2 Spidops ex sv1-19
$0.66 Grass 260
3 Banette ex sv1-88
$0.72 Psychic 250
1 Pidgeot V swsh11-137
$0.73 Colorless 210
1 Radiant Alakazam swsh12-59
$1.72 Psychic 130
2 Banette swsh11-73
$0.23 Psychic 100
1 Klefki sv1-96
$0.23 Psychic 70
4 Shuppet sv1-87
$0.14 Psychic 60
2 Tarountula sv1-18
$0.11 Grass 60
Trainer (37)
2 Acerola's Premonition swsh9-129
$0.15
4 Boss's Orders swsh9-132
$0.39
Trainer (37)
1 Echoing Horn swsh6-136
$0.16
1 Escape Rope swsh5-125
$0.24
4 Fog Crystal swsh6-140
$0.20
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.30
1 Judge sv1-176
$0.22
2 Klara swsh6-145
$0.24
3 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
1 Pal Pad sv1-182
$0.25
2 Pokégear 3.0 sv1-186
$0.36
4 Professor's Research (Professor Turo) sv1-190
$0.16
Trainer (37)
1 Roxanne swsh10-150
$0.19
1 Serena swsh12-164
$0.14
2 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
3 Temple of Sinnoh swsh10-155
$0.20
4 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
Energy (7)
7 Psychic Energy ex13-109
$12.06 Psychic

Card Types

Trainer 37
Pokémon 16
Energy 7

Energy Types

Psychic 11
Grass 4
Colorless 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 10 attacks
10
52.6% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
42.1% of attacks
3 Energy 1 attack
5.3% of attacks

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Comments

Octowen avatar
Octowen

Part of me really wants to combine Bannette ex with Gardevoir ex. I feel like it could be viable: slowing down your opponent is useful for any stage 2 deck, but especially for gardevoir. However, I don't know if you want to throw an ex up into the active spot to stall, and because your opponent does get 1 turn of playing items, (yes Shuppet has a 50% chance of shutting them down, but he can't attack for you on your first turn if you go first, and if you go second, they've already had a turn where they can play items) I don't think it's very viable for combo with Gardevoir ex.

That being said, I think it's wonderful in its own deck like this, and I love how you comboed it with Spidops ex.

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Colress135

To Octowen

Thanks for the suggestion! I see how you think Gardevoir ex could be good in here, but I honestly don't think that it's necessary, seeing as Banette ex only needs one energy.

Who knows, maybe I'll make a Banette ex  & Gardevoir ex in the future.

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Octowen

Yeah, I agree it's not necessary to have Gardevoir ex in with Banette ex, it's more you might play 1 copy Banette in with Gardevoir for some potential for stalling. Zisu (Astral Radiance) seems like a really good play, nice idea. Having the baby Banette in this also seems super big brain! (Yes, I said big brain, so sue me)

Colress135 avatar
Colress135

Octowen 

This deck is actually kind of bad after more testing

Colress135 avatar
Colress135

Alright Acerola's Premonition makes this deck really good.

rayjay10 avatar
rayjay10

maybe you can throw a choy in there to see how many trainer cards your opponent has before you make the decision to try and 1-shot with poltergeist

 

Colress135 avatar
Colress135

rayjay10 

Choy isn't really needed because of acerola's premonition

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