Who Let The Dogs Out? (Arcanine/Skwovet)

Zoroark is a dog... Right?

This is a post-rotation update of the Hisuian Arcanine rouge deck, which is decent at the moment because of Miraidon ex's Fighting weakness. With no cards in your hand Arcanine hits for 160 damage, which can (theoretically) two hit Gardevoir ex and Lugia VSTAR. Skwovet can set you up for drawing more resources from Venusaur and Bibarel in the early game, as well as act as a hail mary in the late game if you get stuck with cards you can't get rid of in your hand. Slowbro

Zoroark is a dog... Right?

This is a post-rotation update of the Hisuian Arcanine rouge deck, which is decent at the moment because of Miraidon ex's Fighting weakness. With no cards in your hand Arcanine hits for 160 damage, which can (theoretically) two hit Gardevoir ex and Lugia VSTAR. Skwovet can set you up for drawing more resources from Venusaur and Bibarel in the early game, as well as act as a hail mary in the late game if you get stuck with cards you can't get rid of in your hand. Slowbro and Mightyena do what you would expect them to do.

I'm not sure if Path is the correct stadium, there really aren't that many amazing stadiums in Standard atm. Capturing Aroma is also sub optimal, but without Evolution Incense it's the best way we have to search for Stage 1s right now. Sableye (Lost Origin) will be a bigger problem for this deck once Super Rod comes back into rotation, but that goes for every single prize deck.

[EDIT 27/04/23] Currently testing Cleansing Gloves over Defiance Band. Realistically hitting 190 damage doesn't really KO anything of note that 160 wouldn't (opposing Kricketune, I suppose), and because Gardy is so slow in getting set up it seemed like I was always ahead in prizes and therefore not hitting the numbers I needed to in the late game. I think Lost City could also be a decent tech card once Super Rod drops to prevent your opponent from spamming Sableye, but I'm conscious of the possibility of having to play it to free hand space and losing Arcanines in matchups other than Lost Box.