This Can K.O. A One-Prizer For Six Prizes | Expanded Meme

Sky field is not leagle in toraments

Dipplenstorm Thanks! I had no idea.

Dipplenstorm Nah, don't worry, Sky Field is still legal in the format. You can check the official banlist if you'd like. https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/about/pokemon-tcg-banned-card-list

Anyways, (reads description) C H A L L E N G E . A C C E P T E D . 

This deck is better than a lot of the competitive ones you’ve uploaded! It still doesn’t work, but it’s something. I actually did something similar once, and it similarly does not function the way your vision suggests it should. I’ll start with the obvious: no one will be running a Pokemon you can KO with Beast Game. The only thing that I can imagine off the top of my head are Budew or maybe a voltorb if your opponent is playing Raichu or some other meme deck. Budew doesn’t even work a lot of the time because if they item lock you, your strategy is usually toast. This deck, before I get to the other stuff, would NEED some kind of damage modifier to allow it to actually KO stuff. A good thing to note is that if a deck relies on your opponent to cooperate for it to work, it won’t. Secondly, Memories of Dawn Mew is way better to use as an attacker than the base tag team because you can blow up Electrode to use Counter Energy on it. This cuts way down on what you need for your list and adds space for additional consistency.

Moving away from the attack itself, these decks should use Peonia instead of the larger setup with Mr. Mime and Oranguru. That combo works if you need only one card in the prizes, but for up to four it gets a little cumbersome. Peonia can get you three cards set up at once. And yeah, I know that it defeats the purpose of your deck being built for an OTK, but as I explained, that will never happen anyways lol. I feel like you’re best off if you ditch the 6-prize sweep turn altogether, and instead do something that aims to whittle down the opponents slowly at first before unexpectedly obliterating them in the mid-late game.

And because this comment is pretty short, I might as well say that the Expanded meta DOES have a place for meme decks, but fun decks should at least work the way they’re expected to. The texbook example of a meme deck in Expanded is Dialga GG End. You can search it up if you want, but the main gist is that the deck has a really funny win condition, and the deck is pretty inconsistent, but it works. At the end of the day, you can still get a board wipe fairly often with that deck, but the setup is so convoluted and awkward that it will never actually be meta. That’s the difference between a complete meme deck, versus a deck that won’t work while the “meme deck” status is being used as a shield against criticism. 

TL;DR this deck really needs a way to OHKO stuff, as 50 damage usually won't cut it.

CountyGibbon798 Does that mean I should basically call this an Expanded Meme? (Also it's GiratinaGarchomp with the GG End attack. Dialga's is Timeless.)

Pretty much what I'm getting at is that the deck is okay to be a little inconsistent, but the strategy at its core should work. And again, I know what I mean with Dialga GG End. The Dialga deck uses Electrode-GX to accelerate a bunch of energy to Dialga VSTAR, use Cyrus Prism to set them to 2 benched Pokemon, use Star Chronos to KO their current active (which usually isn't hard with counter catcher and 220 damage), and wrap it up with Scramble Switch into Garchomp & Giratina to GG End their last 2 Pokemon and win the game. It sounds super powerful, but actually getting a consistent setup is complete hell, especially if it relies on both a Prism Star (a Supporter one at that) and your ACE SPEC to work. That's how I define a meme deck. The strategy exists, and DOES work, but it's just a matter of getting there. This deck  has a strategy that LOOKS like it works, but even if you do set it up properly you don't have the win secured. I hope that makes sense!

Although, this deck did inspire me to revitalize some cheesy meme deck I have been working on that has a similar idea in the broad strokes, but it's very different.