Scolipede's Brutality

inkessant inkessant Standard 1,784 views Feb 22, 2025 Updated Mar 10, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Brute Bonnet (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Hawlucha (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.
  • Atticus (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Big Air Balloon (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.
  • Earthen Vessel (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.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Professor's Research (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.
  • Town Store (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Vengeful Punch (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Something I've been wanting to try for a while after seeing the incredibly interesting Scolipede from Twilight Masquerade. 

The deck revolves around setting up a Scolipede and a Brute Bonnet with an attached ABEC, allowing you to lower the Active Pokémon's HP to 10 before instantly taking a KO with Poison during checkup. The additional benefit to this is that it is a hard counter to Fezandipiti ex, a card that's featured in almost every deck, as well as shutting down any cards that rely

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Something I've been wanting to try for a while after seeing the incredibly interesting Scolipede from Twilight Masquerade. 

The deck revolves around setting up a Scolipede and a Brute Bonnet with an attached ABEC, allowing you to lower the Active Pokémon's HP to 10 before instantly taking a KO with Poison during checkup. The additional benefit to this is that it is a hard counter to Fezandipiti ex, a card that's featured in almost every deck, as well as shutting down any cards that rely on one of your opponent's Pokémon being knocked out on your turn. Grand Tree is used to speedily evolve, as well as Arven and Rare Candy (plus max copies of Scolipede and Venipede) to set up. This is still a work in progress as Brute Bonnet in particular still struggles to set up reliably, and Energy acceleration is rather lackluster. If anybody has any ideas, feel free to let me know!

 

also Budew can realistically be used in this deck to take Prizes so that's funny

 

UPDATE 1: Dropped the copy of Iron Valiant ex in favor of a copy of Fezandipiti ex. As a deck with lots of single-Prize Pokémon, it'll likely have more knockouts taken against it than other decks; additionally, Iron Valiant ex wasn't as useful as better options like Munkidori, Hawlucha, or the surprisingly effective Budew who both takes the KO and Item locks an opponent trying to recover.

UPDATE 2: At the suggestion of @MyceliumMADNESS , I've added a Town Store in to increase the consistency of finding ABECs. Additionally, I've dropped a copy each of Arven, Iono, Big Air Balloon, Energy Retrieval, Brute Bonnet, and TM Evolution for a few more things: namely, more Ultra Balls to compensate for the drop of Brute Bonnet, Town Store to compensate for the drop of Arven, and Calamitous Snowy Mountain to add another way to take KOs as well as 2 Colress's Tenacity to find all these new Stadiums. Colress's Tenacity also finding Energy allowed me to drop a Darkness Energy in favor of a Switch, as this deck currently struggles to effectively move around Pokémon.

UPDATE 3: Dropped a copy of Earthen Vessel and a Darkness Energy in favor of two Super Rods. Not sure if this is a good idea, but it'll allow me to more reliably have copies of Whirlipede in my deck for Grand Tree.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (18)
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.37 Darkness 210
4 Scolipede sv6-117
$0.16 Darkness 170
2 Brute Bonnet sv4-123
$0.20 Darkness 120
2 Munkidori sv8pt5-44
$0.27 Psychic 110
2 Whirlipede sv6-116
$0.15 Darkness 100
4 Venipede sv6-115
$0.13 Darkness 80
1 Hawlucha sv1-118
$0.25 Fighting 70
2 Budew sv8pt5-4
$0.18 Grass 30
Trainer (36)
2 Ancient Booster Energy Capsule sv5-140
$0.16
2 Arven sv3-186
$0.34
Trainer (36)
1 Atticus sv4pt5-77
$0.03
1 Big Air Balloon sv3pt5-155
$0.20
2 Boss's Orders swsh45-58
$0.31
1 Calamitous Snowy Mountain sv2-174
$0.18
2 Colress's Tenacity sv6pt5-57
$0.30
2 Earthen Vessel sv4-163
$0.22
1 Energy Retrieval sv1-171
$0.24
1 Grand Tree sv7-136
$0.57
1 Iono sv4pt5-80
$0.32
4 Nest Ball sv4pt5-84
$0.31
Trainer (36)
2 Professor's Research sv8pt5-125
$0.05
4 Rare Candy sv4pt5-89
$0.24
2 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.30
1 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
1 Town Store sv3-196
$0.27
4 Ultra Ball swsh9-150
$0.23
2 Vengeful Punch sv3-197
$0.18
Energy (6)
6 Basic Darkness Energy sve-15
$0.19 Darkness

Card Types

Trainer 36
Pokémon 18
Energy 6

Energy Types

Darkness 19
Grass 2
Psychic 2
Fighting 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 8 attacks
8
28.6% of attacks
2 Energy 6 attacks
6
21.4% of attacks
3 Energy 14 attacks
14
50.0% of attacks

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Comments

MyceliumMADNESS avatar
MyceliumMADNESS

All I can think of is adding Town Store(s) to make obtaining ABEC a little more consistant.  I always run at least two, and it would also allow you to pull your other tools a little more reliably.

inkessant avatar
inkessant

MyceliumMADNESS Yeah, I might drop a copy of ABEC to fit in a Town Store. I'd also probably drop a copy of Arven to fit in Colress's Tenacity if I did that, just to more consistently find Town Store or Grand Tree. Would love to find a way to drop one of my Brute Bonnet copies to fit in another Town Store, but I don't see how to do that without sabotaging my ability to consistently find BB...

inkessant avatar
inkessant

A question: would it be best to switch out Grand Tree (Stellar Crown) for Neutralization Zone (Shrouded Fable)? I, frankly, don't find myself using GT much because of how much it slows the deck down to have to play copies of Whirlipede.

Second question: should I completely pivot with this deck and add Teal Mask Ogerpon ex (Prismatic Evolutions)? It would allow me to use Crispin (Prismatic Evolutions) and itself for better Energy acceleration, and could make this into a very fast deck with the swap for Neutralization Zone (Shrouded Fable). 

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