The Town Store Inside Me (Maractus Tool Drop)

Paisley Park, After Dark Paisley Park, After Dark Expanded 1,467 views Oct 18, 2023 Updated Oct 18, 2023
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I forgot this card even existed until like yesterday lol

Maractus, nobody's favourite Pokemon - except seemingly the card designers at TPC, becuase they keep giving it really silly attacks for some reason. The goal of this deck is to use Maractus' Ditch and Shake attack to consistently deal upwards of 200 damage with the help of Snorlax's Voraciousness ability to put Leftovers back into your hand. Because it discards from the hand as opposed to from your Pokemon in play you don't have to burden yourself

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I forgot this card even existed until like yesterday lol

Maractus, nobody's favourite Pokemon - except seemingly the card designers at TPC, becuase they keep giving it really silly attacks for some reason. The goal of this deck is to use Maractus' Ditch and Shake attack to consistently deal upwards of 200 damage with the help of Snorlax's Voraciousness ability to put Leftovers back into your hand. Because it discards from the hand as opposed to from your Pokemon in play you don't have to burden yourself with Honchkrow V as a easily KO'd two prizer like Electrode (151) or Pachirisu (Brilliant Stars) decks have to.

You can use Exp. Share to accelerate energy to your Maractus (Maractuses? Maracti?), then put it back into your hand with Shopping Center to attach to another Maractus or use it for your attack, Bravery Charm can also be used to up your damage and you could theoretically also use it to avoid KOs from Cramorant (Lost Origin) if you feel so inclined. Gift Energy is a bit of a meme; I'm still testing it but the idea would be that you have a smaller hand after discarding all of those tools, so you can build your hand back up when your plant inevitably gets knocked out. High Switch count so you don't end up with a Snorlax trapped in the active, yada yada you know how the game works everything else is there for support.

In terms of changes you could make Skwovet (Scarlet & Violet) and Radiant Venusaur seem like they would be okay in the early game, since the deck takes a little while to properly snowball, but I felt like they were clogging up bench space. You could run a third Snorlax in case one gets prized or KO'd. You could also elect to run Arven but to be completely honest I think that card stinks - Town Store provides the same effect without without wasting your supporter for the turn.

As always, any input is appreciated :]

Card Types

Trainer 40
Pokémon 12
Energy 8

Energy Types

Colorless 6
Grass 4
Water 2

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1 Energy 5 attacks
5
31.3% of attacks
2 Energy 6 attacks
6
37.5% of attacks
3 Energy 5 attacks
5
31.3% of attacks

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AlphaNova avatar

The deck title is a reference to a song, I just know it! Or maybe it isn't and I'm just crazy 🫤

Maybe add a copy ofRoseanne's Backup (Brilliant Stars) to recover a tool card? But also that's only one tool, so it would make sense if you didn't want to run that 

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