Kingambit’s Strike Down (Destined Rivals)

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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Bisharp (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Kingambit (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Pawniard (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Artazon (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • 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.
  • Counter Catcher (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.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Luxurious Cape (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Vengeful Punch (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Spread damage to get 4 or more damage counters onto your Opponent then OHKO them with Kingambit's Strike Down.

Strategy: I'd recommend going second for many reasons. Anyways, for your first turn, get out 2 Pawniwards, Shaymin, Uxie, Munkidori, and Maractus if needed. Then you have to options for what to do:

1.) Use Uxie's Spread Attack to rack up damage on your Opponent's Pokémon.

2.) Use Maractus's Corner to trap a Pokémon into the Active.

3.) Use TM: Evolution to get your Bisharps.

Anyways,

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Spread damage to get 4 or more damage counters onto your Opponent then OHKO them with Kingambit's Strike Down.

Strategy: I'd recommend going second for many reasons. Anyways, for your first turn, get out 2 Pawniwards, Shaymin, Uxie, Munkidori, and Maractus if needed. Then you have to options for what to do:

1.) Use Uxie's Spread Attack to rack up damage on your Opponent's Pokémon.

2.) Use Maractus's Corner to trap a Pokémon into the Active.

3.) Use TM: Evolution to get your Bisharps.

Anyways, Shaymin helps against snipe attackers for your Non-Rulebox Pokémon which prevents things like Wellspring's Attack, N's Darmanitan's, Zapdos ex, and other cards that spread damage. Do note that Shaymin doesn't block damage COUNTERS because they're both different things. Anyways, slowly build up your Kingambit and racking up damage with Uxie and Munkidori. This deck also gains another tool being TR's Venture Bomb which forces more damage onto them and if it gets tails, just move the damage off with Munkidori. Artazon helps get out your non-Rulebox Basic Pokémon, Luxurious Cape makes Kingambit tankier, Vengeful Punch helps get more damage into play, and the ACE SPEC of choice, Unfair Stamp, is a great disruption card in this deck since your Pokéon will be KO'd oftenly. Maractus can also have Vengeful Punch attached and if it gets KO'd your Opponent takes 100 Damage which is really helpful at times. That's all I have to say about this deck so feel free to make any changes or to leave any suggestions!

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (15)
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.56 Darkness 210
3 Kingambit sv3-150
$0.15 Metal 180
2 Bisharp sv3-149
$0.11 Metal 110
1 Maractus sv9-8
$0.09 Grass 110
2 Munkidori sv6-95
$0.24 Psychic 110
1 Shaymin sv10-10
$0.28 Grass 80
3 Pawniard sv3-148
$0.08 Metal 70
2 Uxie sv8-78
$0.21 Psychic 70
Trainer (38)
2 Artazon sv2-171
$0.27
4 Arven sv1-166
$0.29
Trainer (38)
2 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.40
2 Brock's Scouting sv9-146
$0.21
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.29
2 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
2 Crispin sv7-133
$0.23
1 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.21
3 Iono sv2-185
$0.26
1 Luxurious Cape sv4-166
$0.18
2 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
2 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.34
Trainer (38)
3 Rare Candy sv1-191
$0.23
1 Team Rocket's Venture Bomb sv10-179
$0.18
2 Technical Machine: Evolution sv4-178
$0.23
3 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.22
1 Unfair Stamp sv6-165
$13.31
1 Vengeful Punch sv3-197
$0.19
Energy (7)
2 Basic Darkness Energy sve-15
$0.14 Darkness
3 Basic Metal Energy sve-16
$1.59 Metal
2 Basic Psychic Energy sve-13
$0.13 Psychic

Card Types

Trainer 38
Pokémon 15
Energy 7

Energy Types

Metal 11
Psychic 6
Darkness 3
Grass 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 11 attacks
11
55.0% of attacks
2 Energy 5 attacks
5
25.0% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
20.0% of attacks

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Comments

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LimeLemon

Description coming shortly.

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Waffle Enthusiast

Interesting concept, but wouldn't running a 2-2 Line for Froslass be good as well?

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LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you for your feedback! Also, yeah Froslass wouldn't be too bad but having Crispin helps out quite a bit and since Uxie spreads 20 on all their Pokémon.

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