Look Ma No Hands

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Basic Single Prize idea with little to no energy and no Cards in Hand untested just threw some cards together so the balance is most likely off the basic idea is, get Radiant Venusaur (Pokémon GO) on bench with either veluza or arcanine as attacker depending on the hand use skwovet to fish for a card to play to go to 0 cards or use multiple discard cards in the deck to lower yourself down to 0 cards.

 

Suggestions welcome I have not tested this anywhere so I might also adjust this later

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Basic Single Prize idea with little to no energy and no Cards in Hand untested just threw some cards together so the balance is most likely off the basic idea is, get Radiant Venusaur (Pokémon GO) on bench with either veluza or arcanine as attacker depending on the hand use skwovet to fish for a card to play to go to 0 cards or use multiple discard cards in the deck to lower yourself down to 0 cards.

 

Suggestions welcome I have not tested this anywhere so I might also adjust this later if I find certain cards get me stuck more than help.

Edit: Added more Grants for obvious reasons, added in Pokégear 3.0 (Scarlet & Violet) to search for specific supporters and also as an easy to discard card when trying to go down to 0 cards in hand via skwovet. Currently cards that can halt the combo, but are also vital to the combo:

Ultra Ball (Brilliant Stars)  as only card in hand bad... good if you draw 4 after the attack using venusaur and also good for the start or early iono,

Earthen Vessel (Paradox Rift)  Good to get setup with variable amounts of energy being grabbed while also discarding one same as Ultra Ball when its the only card in hand helpful for hand sizes 2+

Cards I am debating on adding:

-Great Ball (Paldea Evolved) less reliable than Nest Ball (Paldean Fates) for setup, but has the option of being played with a full bench and also enables Lumineon V (Brilliant Stars) better.

-Capturing Aroma (Silver Tempest) similar to great ball and ultra ball but less reliable to get exactly what you want 

-Canceling Cologne (Astral Radiance) decent utility card that can be always played so its an easier target to make skwovet more reliable to get to 0 cards

-Beach Court (Scarlet & Violet) again can be played at any time so it helps skwovet setup also helps retreat most of the pokemon that don't want to be active

-PokéStop (Pokémon GO) Helps get Grant in the discard pile as well as potentially unblock you if your skwovet grabs you a card you can't play or get rid of

-Town Store (Obsidian Flames) If I add more tools in this could help make the deck more consistent as you could go to 1 card(skwovet) grab a tool and then grants it away as long as you got grant in discard and tools left in deck, but that would most likely be a different deck maybe built around tools more than this still potentially helpful for this gimmick.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (16)
1 Lumineon V swsh9-40
$0.86 Water 170
1 Radiant Venusaur pgo-4
$9.26 Grass 150
4 Hisuian Arcanine swsh11-84
$0.34 Fighting 130
4 Veluza sv4pt5-125
$3.12 Water 130
2 Hisuian Growlithe swsh10-70
$0.18 Fighting 80
2 Hisuian Growlithe swsh11-83
$0.12 Fighting 70
2 Skwovet sv1-151
$0.21 Colorless 60
Trainer (40)
3 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
1 Boss's Orders swsh2-154
$1.44
2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
Trainer (40)
2 Crushing Hammer swsh1-159
$0.15
1 Defiance Band sv1-169
$0.27
2 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
1 Forest Seal Stone swsh12-156
$0.38
3 Grant swsh10-144
$0.15
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.30
1 Iono sv2-185
$0.25
3 Kieran sv6-154
$0.18
2 Lost Vacuum swsh11-162
$0.13
4 Nest Ball sv4pt5-84
$0.31
Trainer (40)
2 Pal Pad sv1-182
$0.25
1 Patrol Cap sv3-191
$0.16
2 Pokégear 3.0 sv1-186
$0.36
1 Prime Catcher sv5-157
$1.23
2 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.30
1 Technical Machine: Devolution sv4-177
$0.20
2 Thorton swsh11-167
$0.16
3 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
Energy (4)
4 Basic Water Energy sve-3
$0.10 Water

Card Types

Trainer 40
Pokémon 16
Energy 4

Energy Types

Fighting 8
Water 5
Colorless 2
Grass 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 12 attacks
12
46.2% of attacks
2 Energy 4 attacks
4
15.4% of attacks
3 Energy 6 attacks
6
23.1% of attacks
4 Energy 4 attacks
4
15.4% of attacks

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Comments

Tangent avatar
Tangent

Proud Fangs Arcanine doesn't do much. I don't like Reversal Energy. Other than that, nice idea.

Lechonk avatar
Lechonk

Might be worried about having two supporters in hand at some point

grandmagusta5258 avatar
grandmagusta5258

Tangent remove reversal energy for more Grants because it can help empty your hand while in the discard pile. Might increase the amount of water to 5 and lower grant to 3, but I still have not tested this just theory crafting while at work. You are right about the proud fangs I was debating on putting some support for it in, but then scratched that idea and forgot to change it back to the very vulnerable arcanine.

Lechonk Grant is there to remove any 2 cards in hand and then get played for the turn to repeat so in the early game it can happen during late game there is a lower chance to encounter said problem also because of skwovet. Biggest Issue I see atm is skwovet into earthen vessel which is why you want to use those really early and power up your veluza first. most other cards except for ultra ball can be used on their own which is why the radiant vensaur is there to ensure you get more options at the start of your turn and if you get 2 supporters with no discard in those 4 cards without grant in discard which should be rather rare you can gamble on the skwovet shuffle to get something you can play to get to 0.

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grandmagusta5258

Iplaylostbox not a bad idea but I feel this would suffer greatly from the low energy of the deck.

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