Psychic Garbodor Beatdown

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Strategy: 
Set up Garbodor for ability lockdown to slow opponent while you set up big attackers (Deoxys, Nexrozma, Golurk). I only run two evolution pokemon in the list: Garbo and Trevenant. Their abilities are really powerful, so at the beginning of a game know which you want. Versus an item-heavy deck go for Trevanant early on and try to beef it up with a tool so it can attack better. Versus ability-focused decks, prioritize setting up  Garbodor. Aside from choosing the control element

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Strategy: 
Set up Garbodor for ability lockdown to slow opponent while you set up big attackers (Deoxys, Nexrozma, Golurk). I only run two evolution pokemon in the list: Garbo and Trevenant. Their abilities are really powerful, so at the beginning of a game know which you want. Versus an item-heavy deck go for Trevanant early on and try to beef it up with a tool so it can attack better. Versus ability-focused decks, prioritize setting up  Garbodor. Aside from choosing the control element of choice, this deck runs lots of aggressive attackers that you want to set up. The strategy is to slow opponents down enough using control effects so you can set up your strong strikers and take out key engine pieces from their deck. 

Was using Shopping spree, but cut the Gallade line and Shopping Spree in order to focus getting more attackers out. Trevenant is a surprisingly nice addition versus item-heavy matchups like decks running the ever popular Pokestop engines. Asymmetric item lock can really push you ahead. Be careful not to turn Trevant off with Garbodor at the wrong time. If you can get the tree out front with energy early on (lucky draw or Mew), the ability to soften up the bench is convenent, and their access to tutors is limited to Supporters. 

I like Wobuffet for the redundancy with Garbodor. It's not a very good attacker, but it can stall if you need time. 

Inspired by Wheatr's build: https://cardboardwarriors.net/decks/Shopping-Spree-%F0%9F%9B%8D%EF%B8%8F-64bb2b59a4aeb87cf80cf0cc

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (11)
1 Necrozma sm11-101
$2.55 Psychic 130
1 Deoxys swshp-SWSH170
$5.73 Psychic 120
1 Nihilego sm8-106
$13.92 Psychic 110
1 Trevenant xy1-55
$4.71 Psychic 110
1 Wobbuffet g1-RC11
$7.18 Psychic 110
1 Garbodor bw11-68
$5.02 Psychic 100
1 Marshadow sm35-45
$0.62 Psychic 70
1 Mimikyu smp-SM99
$34.71 Psychic 70
1 Trubbish bw3-48
$3.94 Psychic 60
1 Phantump xy9-64
$0.16 Psychic 50
1 Shining Mew sm35-40
$181.65 Psychic 30
Trainer (38)
1 Adventure Bag sm8-167
$1.47
1 Arven sv1-166
$0.29
1 Bravery Charm sv2-173
$0.35
1 Cynthia sm5-119
$0.70
1 Dimension Valley xy4-93
$0.95
1 Energy Retrieval sm1-116
$0.20
1 Escape Rope swsh5-125
$0.23
1 Evolution Incense swsh1-163
$0.23
Trainer (38)
1 Evosoda xy1-116
$0.61
1 Fighting Fury Belt xy9-99
$0.86 Fighting
1 Float Stone xy8-137
$6.35
1 Fog Crystal swsh6-140
$0.21
1 Guzma sm3-115
$3.38
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.28
1 Klara swsh6-145
$0.24
1 Level Ball swsh5-129
$0.23
1 Lusamine sm4-96
$0.40
1 Marnie swsh1-169
$0.38
1 Mysterious Treasure sm6-113
$3.19
1 Nest Ball sm1-123
$0.48
1 Pokégear 3.0 sv1-186
$0.38
1 PokéStop pgo-68
$0.21
1 Professor's Letter xy8-146
$0.30
1 Professor’s Research (Professor Oak) cel25-23
$0.27
1 Quick Ball swsh1-179
$0.29
1 Rescue Stretcher sm2-130
$0.72
1 Scoop Up Net swsh2-165
$0.41
Trainer (38)
1 Sonia swsh2-167
$0.24
1 Special Charge xy11-105
$0.35
1 Switch xy6-91
$0.15
1 Tate & Liza sm7-148
$0.61
1 Teammates xy5-141
$2.50
1 Thorton swsh11-167
$0.16
1 Town Map bw7-136
$2.29
1 Trainers' Mail xy6-92
$2.32
1 U-Turn Board sm11-211
$5.93
1 Ultra Ball xy6-93
$0.29
1 VS Seeker ex6-100
$5.52
Energy (11)
5 Basic Psychic Energy sve-5
$0.20 Psychic
1 Capture Energy swsh2-171
$0.31
1 Double Colorless Energy g1-74
$0.66 Colorless
1 Fusion Strike Energy swsh8-244
$0.16
1 Horror Psychic Energy swsh2-172
$0.34 Psychic
1 Mystery Energy xy4-112
$2.94
1 Twin Energy swsh2-174
$0.27

Card Types

Trainer 38
Pokémon 11
Energy 11

Energy Types

Psychic 11

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 7 attacks
7
43.8% of attacks
2 Energy 5 attacks
5
31.3% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
25.0% of attacks

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