Psychic Handlock

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Psychic Handlock works by aggressively locking your opponent's hand, and using your attackers to nuke them. Making use of your abilities to destroy the hand and using Banette to close it of is crucial. Kirlia acts as a great draw engine and can be especially helpful when it evolves into Gallade, which makes it an offensive card as well. Necromza picks of troublesome matchups easily and takes care of most mons in the format. Marshadow is meant to be looped as much as possible and has great synergy

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Psychic Handlock works by aggressively locking your opponent's hand, and using your attackers to nuke them. Making use of your abilities to destroy the hand and using Banette to close it of is crucial. Kirlia acts as a great draw engine and can be especially helpful when it evolves into Gallade, which makes it an offensive card as well. Necromza picks of troublesome matchups easily and takes care of most mons in the format. Marshadow is meant to be looped as much as possible and has great synergy with Arbok-JessieJames combos.

Overall, an interesting deck.

Stats (out of ten)

Skill level: 9 (not easy to play)
Relevance in format: 7
Consistency: 8

Matchups:

Good: LunaRock Fighting, Burning Fire, Turbo Grass, Megasaur and Boom + variants, Spready Lightning
Neutral: Traditional colorless, traditional psychic, water 
Bad: Dark (all variants), Metal, Control decks

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (18)
1 Gallade swsh10-62
$0.41 Psychic 160
1 Dragapult swsh45sv-SV062
$2.92 Psychic 150
1 Gothitelle rsv10pt5-43
$0.14 Psychic 150
1 Necrozma smp-SM204
$7.13 Psychic 130
1 Arbok sm115-27
$0.35 Psychic 120
1 Wobbuffet xy4-36
$2.39 Psychic 110
1 Banette sv9-60
$0.08 Psychic 90
1 Drakloak swsh45sv-SV061
$4.34 Psychic 90
1 Gothorita rsv10pt5-125
$19.25 Psychic 90
1 Malamar sma-SV18
$2.62 Psychic 90
1 Kirlia swshp-SWSH271
$2.00 Psychic 80
1 Ekans sm10-62
$0.24 Psychic 70
1 Gothita rsv10pt5-124
$24.18 Psychic 70
1 Marshadow smp-SM85
$4.13 Psychic 70
1 Ralts sv4pt5-153
$9.93 Psychic 70
1 Dreepy swsh8-128
$0.17 Psychic 60
1 Inkay sma-SV17
$2.63 Psychic 60
1 Shuppet sv1-87
$0.14 Psychic 60
Trainer (33)
1 Acerola sm3-142
$52.90
1 Air Balloon me1-166
$2.62
1 Arven sv1-235
$2.63
1 Avery swsh6-187
$3.85
1 Ball Guy swsh45-65
$4.00
1 Battle VIP Pass swsh8-225
$0.26
1 Counter Catcher sv4-264
$2.29
1 Delinquent xy9-98b
$51.79
1 Dimension Valley xy4-93
$0.93
1 Field Blower sm2-125
$1.64
1 Fog Crystal swsh6-227
$5.20
1 Guzma sm3-143
$25.93
1 Hex Maniac xy7-75a
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.30
1 Iono sv4pt5-80
$0.32
1 Jessie & James sm115-68
$74.42
1 Level Ball swsh5-129
$0.23
1 Lillie's Determination me1-169
$21.75
Trainer (33)
1 Lost City swsh11-161
$0.14
1 Lysandre xy2-104
$33.04
1 Marnie swsh1-200
$36.19
1 Mysterious Treasure sm6-113
$3.19
1 Mystery Garden me1-172
$1.08
1 Nest Ball sm1-123
$0.49
1 Pal Pad xy2-92
$0.52
1 Parallel City xy8-145
$3.51
1 Raihan swsh12tg-TG27
$2.98
1 Rare Candy bw10-85
$0.80
1 Red Card g1-71
$0.36
1 Scoop Up Net swsh2-165
$0.41
1 Tulip sv4-259
$8.15
1 Ultra Ball bw5-102
$1.48
1 VS Seeker clc-31
Energy (9)
7 Basic Psychic Energy clb-34
Psychic
1 Counter Energy sm4-100
$0.63
1 Mystery Energy xy4-112
$2.94

Card Types

Trainer 33
Pokémon 18
Energy 9

Energy Types

Psychic 18

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 8 attacks
8
34.8% of attacks
2 Energy 11 attacks
11
47.8% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
17.4% of attacks

Opening Hand Probability Calculator

Calculate the probability of drawing specific cards in your opening hand

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