Strangle Hold

Tangent Tangent Expanded 1,596 views Aug 02, 2024 Updated Aug 02, 2024
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Expanded Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Expanded format:

  • Snivy is not legal in Expanded format (must be Black & White onward).
Deck Primer

You all remember Shock Lock, with Raichu from Burning Shadows, right? Well, that's what this is, excpet with Servine from Fates Collide! Using Servine allows us to use Rescue Carrier and Revitalizer to consistently recover cards after we discard them with Hydreigon from Crimson Invasion. You can also use Galarian Weezing to lock your opponent's abilities to make it harder for them to complete their strategy. Legacy Energy is to use Koffing's Ascension, if needed, and to deny a prize. Use Munchlax

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You all remember Shock Lock, with Raichu from Burning Shadows, right? Well, that's what this is, excpet with Servine from Fates Collide! Using Servine allows us to use Rescue Carrier and Revitalizer to consistently recover cards after we discard them with Hydreigon from Crimson Invasion. You can also use Galarian Weezing to lock your opponent's abilities to make it harder for them to complete their strategy. Legacy Energy is to use Koffing's Ascension, if needed, and to deny a prize. Use Munchlax or Rotom V to conserve resources or draw cards, since you don't need to attack. Finally, Guzma doubles as a switch card and to remove an opposing ability locker like Wobbuffet or Galarian Weezing.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!

Card Types

Trainer 40
Pokémon 19
Energy 1

Energy Types

Grass 8
Darkness 5
Dragon 3
Colorless 2
Lightning 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 13 attacks
13
52.0% of attacks
2 Energy 9 attacks
9
36.0% of attacks
3 Energy 3 attacks
3
12.0% of attacks

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Comments

Tangent avatar

Iplaylostbox please be more specific on the purpose of Serperior. I get that it can efficiently deal damage, but this is currently a stall deck. Also, if I knock out the active Pokémon, it is no longer paralyzed.

Siegislash avatar

This is a really cool strategy, but can it actually win a game though? In order to successfully stall out the opponent(purely using stall), you're gonna have to stall for abt 15-30 ish turns depending on how the opponent plays; and, tell me if I'm wrong abt this, but, I don't think this can stall for long enough. Most stall decks have either some sort of infinite stall technique or some kind of mill technique. Imagine the best case scenario. All coin flips are heads, no more than 1 key card is prized, you successfully use all four servines, all four rescue carriers, and all 4 revitalizers. Thats 12 turns. 

pls tell me if you're cooking smth I don't know tho 😅

Tangent avatar

Siegislash thank you for the feedback. This idea doesn't work as I intended. I am going to have to mill as well as paralyze in order to win games. If you have any ideas for cards that can mill effectively (basic can easily mill 3 cards for a DCE or 2 for a single energy), please let me know.

Siegislash avatar

Tangent

I can think of a lot of evolution pokemon, but if u only want basics your best bet is probably Bunnelby (xy5-121) - Pokémon Card Database - PokemonCard (couldn't link it because it kept going to the wrong bunnelby Primal Clash) Its a really good card in general and mills 2 cards for 1 energy.

There are a lot of trainer options for milling, such as Bellelba & Brycen-Man (Cosmic Eclipse) , Team Rocket's Handiwork (Fates Collide) , Cursed Shovel (Rebel Clash) , Cursed Shovel (Rebel Clash) , Miss Fortune Sisters (Lost Origin) and many more.

 

Hope I helped! 🥰

Siegislash avatar

I meant Trick Shovel (Flashfire) instead of another cursed shovel sorry. 😅

Tangent avatar

Siegislash I forgot Bunnelby can mill, thank you for the suggestion. I can also use the 2 attack flexibility with a Technical Machine if I want to as well. Thank you very much, and I will revise the deck when I have time.

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