Tidal waves

Totalnoob Totalnoob Expanded 806 views Apr 04, 2025 Updated Apr 05, 2025
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Deck request for a palafin deck

Main Deck (60 cards)

Card Types

Trainer 25
Pokémon 20
Energy 15

Energy Types

Water 24
Psychic 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 13 attacks
13
48.1% of attacks
2 Energy 11 attacks
11
40.7% of attacks
3 Energy 3 attacks
3
11.1% of attacks

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Comments

CheeseyPicklelord avatar

nice deck! I personly would not get the full art of them but love it! 

CountyGibbon798 avatar

Sorry to rain on your parade here, but there is... a lot that can be improved upon here.


This feels a lot like you searched "water" in the deckbuilder and stuffed the list full of as many cards that say it as possible. Passho Berry is what really seals the deal, since it says "water Pokémon" on it, but it has nothing to do with your own Pokémon and instead only works if your OPPONENT has water guys that hit you.

 

For this main strategy, Vaporeon VMAX's Bubble Pod is a deceptively bad attack. While it sounds cool, being able to cheat a water Pokémon in play and instantly energize it, you realize that this means you'll be actually attacking with the Pokémon you set up at the earliest on turn three, which by then your opponent would have already set themselves up and fired off one or two attacks to slow you down further. It's the same issue that Kingdra ex has in Standard that prevents it from really being good. You also don't have a method of getting anything into the discard pile, so making the attack work is more difficult than it should be. In fact, without any interference from your opponent, it's completely impossible to get your Inteleon cards into the discard pile. Vaporeon VMAX also doesn't really have the greatest attack either, doing 200 at the most, which is shy of the 280 most decks should be aiming for at a minimum.

My biggest advice to you is to focus less on synergy between the types of Pokémon you're working with, but instead what your strategy is and what the best cards are to get you there. For example, 90% of competitive Expanded decks utilize a core of Tapu Lele-GX, Dedenne-GX, and Crobat V. None of them attack in the deck, but they all have abilities that provide so much consistency to the deck they're in that they're practically an auto-include for most people. Regidrago VSTAR might look like it can use Lance Prism Star because it can cheat a bunch of evolved dragons into play, but it's never needed because Regidrago itself uses their attacks. Instead, you use cards like Battle Compressor to get you everything you need in the discard pile, which also combined super well with VS Seeker, which gets Supporters out of your discard pile for free. That little trick turns those two cards into a way to search your deck for any Supporter you need. The same line of thought can be applied with Night/Rescue Stretcher to get Pokémon, too.

 

I wish you luck on your future builds!

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CountyGibbon798 

i made this deck for someone who requested a palafin deck. At something like 3am as i was unable to sleep i completely misread multiple cards lol. I missed oppodents water on pasho and active on vaporean vmax. Thank you for the advice i will try to update it when i can in a more workable way. 

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