Psychic Lightning [Zapdos ex & Gardevoir ex]

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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Gardevoir ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Zapdos ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Arven (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Electric Generator (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Earthen Vessel (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Calamitous Snowy Mountain (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Turbo Energize (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Super Rod (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Regulation G, H, I.

Both Zapdos ex and Gardevoir ex are rotating out soon and I love them dearly so I had to try my hand at a combo deck.

MAIN COMBO:

Idea is that gardevoir ex's psychic embrace ability brings psychic energies from the discard to any psychic pokemon. This pokemon can be Gardevoir ex or Munkidori. Adrena-Brain Munkidori can toss up to 3 damage counters onto an opponents pokemon when it has a dark type energy. Then, this is where the main idea starts. Zapdos ex has a move called

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Regulation G, H, I.

Both Zapdos ex and Gardevoir ex are rotating out soon and I love them dearly so I had to try my hand at a combo deck.

MAIN COMBO:

Idea is that gardevoir ex's psychic embrace ability brings psychic energies from the discard to any psychic pokemon. This pokemon can be Gardevoir ex or Munkidori. Adrena-Brain Munkidori can toss up to 3 damage counters onto an opponents pokemon when it has a dark type energy. Then, this is where the main idea starts. Zapdos ex has a move called multishot lightning. (Thos of you who have seen my other decks know about this Zapdos already) Multishot lightning for 3 lightning energy does 120 damage and an additional 90 damage to 1 of your opponent's benched pokemon that has a damage counter. If you have maximum nelt on Zapdos then multishot lightning will do 170 to the active opponent and an additional 90 instead which almost makes it a decent combo. Honestly as a precaution you should probably not use the maximum belt until you can absolutely be sure that zapdos is set up and able to swing that 170 consistently. Of course with a measly 200HP it is worth using any number of other ACE SPECS such as hero's cape or even just Prime Switcher or Secret Box for set up to start racking up early knockouts.

SIDE ROUTE:

Battle cage shut's the main combo down so an alternate route is to just go all in on Gardevoir ex. Though 190 isn't anything crazy so if the Zapdos combo just isn't working then put the maximum belt onto gardevoir ex instead of Zapdos. At that point treat electric energy and Zapdos as discard fodder for ultra balls, earthen vessels and others. Remember that if Zapdos isn't set up or isn't working against your opponent to use your ACE SPEC Maximum belt on Gardevoir ex so Miracle Force does 240 HP which will get you just barely over ceartain low HP ex's like Mew ex or feFezandipiti ex.

Honestly This deck is a rough one to pilot and I made it in an afternoon and even went to the store to pickup as lot of the pieces for it but the engine doesn't always want to turn on. Would love sugguestions/tweaks/etc. Please Comment below.

Card Types

Trainer 36
Pokémon 12
Energy 12

Energy Types

Psychic 13
Lightning 7
Darkness 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 9 attacks
9
56.3% of attacks
2 Energy 2 attacks
2
12.5% of attacks
3 Energy 5 attacks
5
31.3% of attacks

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