Pay the (Retreat) Cost

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Like all my decks, this is just a strategy. You should probably re-make the deck with better cards of your choice.

I made this deck after discovering Team Aqua's Secret Base (Double Crisis) in my Pokemon collection and decided to make a deck around it.

This deck raises your opponent's Retreat Cost by up to FOUR colorless energy more. Multiple cards including Spidops ex (Scarlet & Violet) and Flygon (Brilliant Stars) do more damage for each colorless energy in your opponen'ts Retreast Cost, pairing

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Like all my decks, this is just a strategy. You should probably re-make the deck with better cards of your choice.

I made this deck after discovering Team Aqua's Secret Base (Double Crisis) in my Pokemon collection and decided to make a deck around it.

This deck raises your opponent's Retreat Cost by up to FOUR colorless energy more. Multiple cards including Spidops ex (Scarlet & Violet) and Flygon (Brilliant Stars) do more damage for each colorless energy in your opponen'ts Retreast Cost, pairing perfectly with Team Aqua's Secret Base (Double Crisis) and Gravity Gemstone (Stellar Crown) . Cards like Grapploct (Paldean Fates) , Pinsir (Twilight Masquerade) , and Victreebel (151) force your opponent to retreat, which can be impossible if you make their Retreat Cost is high enough. Lisia's Appeal (Surging Sparks) can team up with any highest stage evolution in this deck and help bring in cards with high Retreat Cost's or with too few energy to retreat, causing your opponen'ts downfall.

UPDATE: 7/13/25: Team Aqua's Secret Base is replaced with Galar Mine thanks to the suggestion made by Scarved Goose (Thanks!). I had only used Team Aqua's Secret Base because it was the only stadium I knew that raised the Retreat Cost.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (20)
2 Spidops ex sv1-19
$0.67 Grass 260
1 Flygon swsh9-76
$0.20 Fighting 150
2 Victreebel sv3pt5-71
$0.18 Grass 150
2 Grapploct sv4pt5-52
$0.03 Fighting 120
3 Pinsir sv6-3
$0.15 Grass 110
1 Vibrava sv8-105
$0.17 Fighting 90
2 Clobbopus swsh4-100
$0.05 Fighting 80
2 Weepinbell sm2-2
$0.21 Grass 80
2 Bellsprout sv3pt5-69
$0.14 Grass 60
2 Tarountula sv2-17
$0.14 Grass 60
1 Trapinch sm12-107
$0.25 Fighting 50
Trainer (25)
3 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.40
1 Energy Retrieval sv1-171
$0.24
2 Energy Search sv1-172
$0.23
3 Galar Mine swsh2-160
$0.14
3 Gravity Gemstone sv7-137
$0.25
1 Iono sv4pt5-80
$0.28
3 Jacq sv1-175
$0.21
1 Larry sv4-165
$0.15
1 Miriam sv1-179
$0.16
2 Nest Ball sv4pt5-84
$0.30
2 Professor's Research sv4pt5-88
$0.14
3 Rare Candy sv4pt5-89
$0.22
Energy (15)
7 Basic Fighting Energy sve-6
$0.09 Fighting
8 Basic Grass Energy sve-1
$0.15 Grass

Card Types

Trainer 25
Pokémon 20
Energy 15

Energy Types

Grass 13
Fighting 7

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 12 attacks
12
35.3% of attacks
2 Energy 17 attacks
17
50.0% of attacks
3 Energy 5 attacks
5
14.7% of attacks

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Scarved Goose

Team Aqua's Secret Base could probably be replaced by Galar Mine (Rebel Clash) for better effect.

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