Weird Science (Destined Rivals Rotom Box)

Paisley Park, After Dark Paisley Park, After Dark Standard 8,380 views May 31, 2025 Updated May 31, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Revavroom (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Revavroom ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Arven (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Earthen Vessel (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Exp. Share (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Super Rod (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Town Store (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Close enough, welcome back Honchkrow V.

This deck utilises the Rotoms' Gadget Show attack to deal massive damage to opponents on a single prize basic, which gives it huge power for a rouge deck. Generally you would like to go second and attack with Budew whilst building up a Rotom, then continue to cheat energy around throughout the game with Exp. Share and Counter Gain. With both Revavroom ex in play you can hit 360 damage, though you'll probably mostly find yourself hitting the still very respectable

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Close enough, welcome back Honchkrow V.

This deck utilises the Rotoms' Gadget Show attack to deal massive damage to opponents on a single prize basic, which gives it huge power for a rouge deck. Generally you would like to go second and attack with Budew whilst building up a Rotom, then continue to cheat energy around throughout the game with Exp. Share and Counter Gain. With both Revavroom ex in play you can hit 360 damage, though you'll probably mostly find yourself hitting the still very respectable cap of 270.

Mow Rotom is the most consistent of the Gadget Show cards, being able to be grabbed by Buddy Buddy Poffin whilst avoiding a snipe from Dragapult ex. The tech cards Heat Rotom and Lillie's Clefairy both take only two energy (which can be reduced to one with Counter Gain) and help KO the otherwise problematic Gholdengo ex and Dragapult ex respectively (with Mow Rotom hitting weakness on Charizard ex, and... Gardevoir ex being a problem matchup. Hate that deck.). 

Other Considerations:

- I overlooked Drayton at first, but I think it's actually a pretty decent card. If you would like, something like Morty's Conviction could also likely see success.

- I think a version of this deck with Area Zero Underdepths and some form of Tera Box engine could also be decent, giving you additional Pokemon to attach to without having to evolve into Revavroom ex, but that also makes it very easy for your opponent to discard your tools by forcing you to discard your stadium. Having powerful Tera attackers that don't require tools as backup would probably fix that... And now I'm building a completely different deck.

As always, any input is appreciated :)

Can you really call it a 'box' deck with only two tech cards? What a hack.

Card Types

Trainer 38
Pokémon 14
Energy 8

Energy Types

Metal 6
Grass 5
Darkness 1
Fire 1
Psychic 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 9 attacks
9
40.9% of attacks
2 Energy 9 attacks
9
40.9% of attacks
3 Energy 3 attacks
3
13.6% of attacks
4 Energy 1 attack
4.5% of attacks

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Tyrano avatar

Nice cook bro, did you tried a metang version ? So you can setup energy and attack with revavroom ?

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