POWERFUL Palafin ex Cheese

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Overwhelm and Overpower!

 

So, Palafin ex is absolutely BROKEN for a stage 1 ex, with a staggering 340 HP and 250 damage for a single eenergy attachment. The only issue is its restrictive ability, which requires you to switch an existing Palafin to the bench and activate its ability. Fortunately, we have Psychic Pokemon tricks to bypass that! Wobbuffet and Garbodor turn off all abilities from all Pokemon everywhere, including in your hand. This means that you're free

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Overwhelm and Overpower!

 

So, Palafin ex is absolutely BROKEN for a stage 1 ex, with a staggering 340 HP and 250 damage for a single eenergy attachment. The only issue is its restrictive ability, which requires you to switch an existing Palafin to the bench and activate its ability. Fortunately, we have Psychic Pokemon tricks to bypass that! Wobbuffet and Garbodor turn off all abilities from all Pokemon everywhere, including in your hand. This means that you're free to evolve Finizen the normal way! Because Giga Impact prevents you from attacking the following turn, Dawn WIngs Necrozma-GX can switch itself into the active spot and reset the effect.

 

This deck has two possible builds, where you can either focus on offense or defence. For this list, I went with defence, but either one works. 340 HP on a stage 1 is very beefy, so I wanted to push it further with Training Court and Hero's Cape, alongside Cheryl for some extra healing. Typically you'd want to run Acerola or AZ for prizze denial, but given Palafin's awkward evolution condition, you want to keep it on the board as long as possible. The Energy discards from the healing aren't that big of a deal, either, since you only need a single attachment to attack again. Wash Water Energy is also there in case of some stupid shenanigans that can bypass your bulk, whether if it's from Slowking absuing Amazing Yveltal, or Lugia Dragons' GG End. Just watch out for Enhanced Hammer!

 

I feel like this deck is teetering on the edge of being COMPETITIVE, but I have yet to test it against any big meta threats yet to confirm. Enjoy!

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (20)
4 Palafin ex sv6-61
$0.71 Water 340
1 Dawn Wings Necrozma-GX sm5-63
$5.37 Psychic 180
1 Tapu Lele-GX sm2-60
$5.99 Psychic 170
1 Dedenne-GX sm10-57
$16.00 Lightning 160
4 Wobbuffet xy4-36
$2.39 Psychic 110
2 Garbodor xy9-57
$1.21 Psychic 100
1 Palafin sv6-60
$0.14 Water 100
4 Finizen sv6-59
$0.17 Water 70
2 Trubbish bw3-48
$3.94 Psychic 60
Trainer (33)
2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
Trainer (33)
1 Cheryl swsh5-123
$0.21
1 Choice Belt sv2-176
$0.13
1 Field Blower sm2-125
$1.64
3 Float Stone xy8-137
$6.41
2 Guzma sm3-115
$3.30
1 Guzma & Hala sm12-193
$7.43
1 Hero's Cape sv5-152
$27.50
1 Irida swsh10-147
$0.50
1 Karen xyp-XY177
$11.81
2 N xy10-105
$1.57
Trainer (33)
3 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.30
1 Pokémon Ranger xy11-104
$0.17
4 Quick Ball swsh1-179
$0.29
3 Training Center xy3-102
$0.20
3 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
3 VS Seeker xy4-109
$4.24
Energy (7)
4 Basic Water Energy sve-11
$0.15 Water
3 Wash Water Energy swsh4-165
$0.24 Water

Card Types

Trainer 33
Pokémon 20
Energy 7

Energy Types

Water 13
Psychic 10
Lightning 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 11 attacks
11
44.0% of attacks
2 Energy 10 attacks
10
40.0% of attacks
3 Energy 2 attacks
2
8.0% of attacks
4 Energy 2 attacks
2
8.0% of attacks

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Comments

wufah098 avatar
wufah098

wow but is there a standard format of this deck?

 

CountyGibbon798 avatar
CountyGibbon798

wufah098 Sadly, not like this. At the moment there aren't any Standard cards that disable your own abilities. However, switching is fairly simple with cards like Abra (Twilight Masquerade) and Pecharunt ex (Shrouded Fable) around. You can still make a deck about Palafin, but it will end up looking a lot different.

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Wash Energy doesn't make a difference in the Lugia matchup really, your Garb will shut off Summoning Star AND Primal Turbo. Slowking is kind of new, and you wont run into it so much competitively, so I think 2 Wash Energies is fine. Also, after looking at a bunch of Expanded tournament results, I didn't see a single ADP, so you don't need Pokemon Ranger unless I'm missing another matchup it can help with. I also think you need the one-prize Buzzwole to hit Miraidon for weakness, because unless you have both Training Center (which you called training court in description lol) and Hero's Cape, a Photon Blaster will one-tap Palafin.

I like this deck a lot though and think it can do very well competitively.

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