Palkia Midrange

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WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Since I know Midrange isn't a common term here in Pokemon, it's basically a deck or strategy that is a hybrid between aggro and control. The idea is that against faster, aggresive decks you can force them to slow their pace of play and focus on control to win, where slower decks won't be able to keep up with your aggression.

This deck specifically aims to accomplish this using Palkia VSTAR, a strong, consistent attacker that can easily beat down the opponent if set up, as well as

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WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Since I know Midrange isn't a common term here in Pokemon, it's basically a deck or strategy that is a hybrid between aggro and control. The idea is that against faster, aggresive decks you can force them to slow their pace of play and focus on control to win, where slower decks won't be able to keep up with your aggression.

This deck specifically aims to accomplish this using Palkia VSTAR, a strong, consistent attacker that can easily beat down the opponent if set up, as well as being able to consistently power up sniping attacks like Radiant Greninja to pressure slower decks. Subspace Swell is also able to power up a variety of control attackers, such as Milotic ex and Black Kyurem ex, or even Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex and Lumineon V in a pinch. This also allows you to use attacks that control normally wouldn't use such as Black Kyurem's second attack in the rare situation where that could close a game. Alternatively, you can use star portal and follow up with Thorton to power up Luxray V, which is a more rare play as you will generally use Double Turbo Energy or Water Energy + Counter Gain to accomplish this task.

Pidgeot ties the deck together, allowing you to play effectively as Pidgeot Control when needed, but it's useful in almost any matchup as it is just a powerful card all around. It's less consistent than classic control as you can't use your VSTAR power on Forest Seal Stone because of Palkia, but it's still effective against certain matchups, especially decks like Goldhengo and Dragapult where you can hide behind a Mimikyu or Milotic ex while you draw cards with Rotom V and attack their hand with Eri.

There's a lot I could say about this deck, unfortunately I made this description in a bit of a rush so I wasn't able to talk about every tech choice. The list may also see changes in the future as I test more, but overall I feel like it is testing well, has won about 80-90% matches I've played with it on Live so far (which hasn't been too many quite yet but I'll keep trying). Feedback is welcome if you have any.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (19)
2 Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR swsh10-40
$1.71 Water 280
2 Pidgeot ex sv3-164
$1.25 Colorless 280
1 Milotic ex sv8-42
$0.71 Water 270
1 Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex sv6-141
$0.89 Colorless 260
1 Black Kyurem ex sv8-48
$0.82 Water 230
2 Origin Forme Palkia V swsh10-39
$0.97 Water 220
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.37 Darkness 210
1 Luxray V swsh10-50
$2.69 Lightning 210
1 Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex sv6-64
$0.98 Water 210
1 Rotom V swsh11-58
$0.70 Lightning 190
1 Lumineon V swsh9-40
$0.86 Water 170
1 Radiant Greninja swsh10-46
$3.11 Water 130
1 Mimikyu sv2-97
$0.34 Psychic 70
2 Pidgey sv3-162
$0.19 Colorless 60
1 Feebas swsh12-39
$0.17 Water 30
Trainer (34)
3 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.39
1 Bravery Charm sv2-173
$0.31
1 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
2 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
1 Counter Gain sv8-169
$0.17
2 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
1 Eri sv5-146
$0.14
1 Hero's Cape sv5-152
$27.50
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.30
1 Iono sv2-185
$0.25
2 Irida swsh10-147
$0.50
1 Lost Vacuum swsh11-162
$0.13
Trainer (34)
3 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
2 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.30
1 Pal Pad sv1-182
$0.25
1 Penny sv1-183
$0.16
1 Professor Turo's Scenario sv4-171
$0.23
2 Rare Candy sv1-191
$0.24
1 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
1 Thorton swsh11-167
$0.16
4 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
Energy (7)
6 Basic Water Energy sve-11
$0.15 Water
1 Double Turbo Energy swsh9-151
$0.25

Card Types

Trainer 34
Pokémon 19
Energy 7

Energy Types

Water 16
Colorless 5
Lightning 2
Darkness 1
Psychic 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 7 attacks
7
28.0% of attacks
2 Energy 7 attacks
7
28.0% of attacks
3 Energy 9 attacks
9
36.0% of attacks
4 Energy 1 attack
4.0% of attacks
5 Energy 1 attack
4.0% of attacks

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