Water GLC (Palafin + Rapid Strike)

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Water GLC deck focused on spread damage with Palafin as the big hitter.

- Snom, Finizen, and Sobble all have great one cost attacks to play on turn one going second to help setup your bench or in Finizen's case get a big attacker ready to go for turn two.
- Articuno and Lapras can disrupt the early game with one cost attacks that put opposing pokemon to sleep if you need to buy time to setup.
- Rapid Strike pokemon can spread damage on the board or snipe bench threats.
- Articuno can take multiple prize

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Water GLC deck focused on spread damage with Palafin as the big hitter.

- Snom, Finizen, and Sobble all have great one cost attacks to play on turn one going second to help setup your bench or in Finizen's case get a big attacker ready to go for turn two.
- Articuno and Lapras can disrupt the early game with one cost attacks that put opposing pokemon to sleep if you need to buy time to setup.
- Rapid Strike pokemon can spread damage on the board or snipe bench threats.
- Articuno can take multiple prize cards off of spread damage.
- Rapid Strike pokemon get free retreat from Tower of Waters to help switch Palafin in and out of the active.
- Palafin can deal with any big threats that spread damage has a hard time dealing with.
- Tapu Fini and Lapras can both perserve the Rapid Strike Energy with their Ocean Loop and Splash Arc attacks.
- Frosmoth for energy support
- Octillery for rapid strike draw support
- Inteleon line for draw support and a decent attacker

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (16)
1 Inteleon swsh1-58
$0.55 Water 160
1 Palafin sv3-200
$5.59 Water 150
1 Cloyster swsh8-51
$0.13 Water 130
1 Articuno xy6-17
$3.99 Water 120
1 Lapras swsh8-54
$0.21 Water 120
1 Tapu Fini swsh6-40
$0.46 Water 120
1 Octillery swsh9tg-TG03
$3.51 Water 110
1 Drizzile swsh1-56
$0.43 Water 90
1 Frosmoth swsh10tg-TG04
$3.83 Water 90
1 Starmie swsh8-53
$0.33 Water 90
1 Shellder swsh8-50
$0.08 Water 70
1 Remoraid swsh5-36
$0.16 Water 60
1 Sobble swsh6-41
$0.10 Water 60
1 Staryu swsh8-52
$0.08 Water 60
1 Finizen sv3-60
$0.18 Water 50
1 Snom swsh45-29
$0.21 Water 50
Trainer (34)
1 Air Balloon swsh1-156
$0.31
1 Ball Guy swsh45-57
$0.19
Trainer (34)
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.40
1 Brooklet Hill sm2-120
$0.35
1 Capacious Bucket swsh2-156
$0.22
1 Cynthia sm5-119
$0.70
1 Dive Ball xy5-125
$1.76
1 Escape Rope swsh5-125
$0.23
1 Evolution Incense swsh1-163
$0.23
1 Gladion sm4-95
$0.54
1 Guzma sm3-115
$3.38
1 Guzma & Hala sm12-193
$7.34
1 Hisuian Heavy Ball swsh10-146
$0.28
1 Iono sv2-185
$0.26
1 Irida swsh10-147
$0.50
1 Korrina's Focus swsh5-128
$0.06
1 Level Ball swsh5-129
$0.23
1 Lusamine sm4-96
$0.40
1 Luxurious Cape sv4-166
$0.18
1 Marnie swsh1-169
$0.38
Trainer (34)
1 Nessa swsh4-157
$0.28
1 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
1 Pokégear 3.0 sv1-186
$0.38
1 Professor's Letter xy8-146
$0.30
1 Quick Ball swsh8-237
$0.23
1 Raihan swsh7-152
$0.24
1 Rescue Stretcher sm2-130
$0.72
1 Sonia swsh2-167
$0.24
1 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.31
1 Superior Energy Retrieval sv2-189
$0.29
1 Switch Raft sm75-62
$2.17
1 Tate & Liza sm7-148
$0.61
1 Tower of Waters swsh5-138
$0.16
1 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.22
Energy (10)
8 Basic Water Energy sve-3
$0.12 Water
1 Rapid Strike Energy swsh5-140
$0.13
1 Splash Energy xy9-113
$0.81

Card Types

Trainer 34
Pokémon 16
Energy 10

Energy Types

Water 16

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 13 attacks
13
52.0% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
32.0% of attacks
3 Energy 4 attacks
4
16.0% of attacks

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