Desire Of The Legends

[gardevoirlvx]

This deck is just something I made up looking at the LA scans.

pokemon 8
4xJirachi LA
4xRotom MD

Trainers 22
4xbebes
4xFelicity's
4xroseanne's
3xnight mainteance
1xTime-Space Distortion
4xProfessor Oaks
2xSnowpoint temple

Energy 30
26x:metal:
4xcall

Follow this link for scans: http://www.pokebeach.com/tcg/legends-awakened/scans

Strategy:use felicity's to discard the metal, rotom to put them on jirachi, and use jirachi's doom desire to K.O your opponents pokemon.

 

[Skitty]

When you use Doom Desire, the opponent will probably retreat each turn to make it's effect go away. You might want to add MT Ariados to make there retreat higher to help prevent this.

 

[ApachePrime]

I don't see how this deck works. When you use Doom Desire, won't the opponent just retreat each turn to make it's affect go away?

Until they run out of energy.

 

[Skitty]

Until they run out of energy.

Or they have a Pokemon with free retreat. Either way, it would take two turns each time to power up Doom Desire but only one turn for the opponent to retreat, and a free turn to attack.

 

[ApachePrime]

Not necessarily. If you have the Rotom out for several turns powering up multiple Jirachi's you could easily do it a few turns in a row.

 

[PokePockets]

True, but then there are also cards like Warp Point and Switch to stop this as well.

This very well could work, however you probably should play some Ariados MT to make them work around it a bit more, it will make this deck more effective.

Against Kingdra, this could so a little bit, however they can just retreat, and then attach to the Kingdra/Pokemon they bring up, and you are only helping them by using Doom Desire. May i suggest Multi for your Rotom's for Kingdra matchups?

Vs. UMA...well, unless you find a way to Shut off Mespirit's body (if they are playing the MT one) then they will just Free Retreat their way out of this combo, and i am not sure how you are going to lock bodies nowadays. Perhaps a 1-1 Mewtwo Lv.X line for UMA matchups?

vs. any other deck, this could work out quite well, however MagneVire will give you the same problem with it's Magnetize body, so try and find a way to get something to counter for MagneVire

overall, a good concept, just needs a little fixing up

 

[Killax]

IMHO I don't think this deck will work. If you get your Temple out fast it enough it might, but if you're up vs anithing that can stall (mr. mime / ditto) for huge hitters (like gallade or magmortar or even empoleon) or thake out basics very easily (something with sleep special effect or like Mightyenna) your in for a world of trouble where you will thake out 1 pokemon at the loss of 2.

So I would sirioulsy think about a other pokemon line in there... which is up to you.

Because with 8 pokemon the chances are quite big that your opponent will start with about 2 extra cards before you have your pokemon. Thus you will quite quickly see that your up vs 2 stage 2's and a claydol.

 

[mewoxys666]

Umm... why in God's name do I not see Energy Patch in here? You could potentially perform 2 Doom Desire's in a row, you know, just saying. -cough cough- -do it- cough cough-

 

[josher3147]

This with Ariados is fun.

 

[Xaej]

Play with Gliscor lv X, paralyze, make them get knocked out from your doom thing. lol..

- Xaej

 

[butlerforhire]

I could see this being more viable once Heatran lv. X (instant retrieval of both discarded energies at the end of the turn you attack) and the Magnezone with Super Connectivity are released. However, even with ways to reattach the energy, relying solely on the Doom Desire strategy allows your opponent too many opportunities to play around it. Like other people have been saying, it is not hard at all to retreat or Warp/Switch out of the effect and evolution negates it as well. As PokePockets pointed out, Kingdra in particular absolutely would wreck this deck, being able to easily OHKO Jirachi (via Buck's/PlusPower or after sniping one on the bench earlier) and also being able to easily retreat out of getting KOed. Anything else with multiple free or low retreat Pokemon would basically win against you automatically since you would literally never get Doom Desire to stick and since that is also your ONLY attacking option in this deck, you'd be unable to ever even draw a single prize. Infernape, Luxray (LA) and Yanmega are just three Pokemon that would instantly lock you down the moment two or more of them hit the field. Ariados would help this a bit, but it is still not that hard to play around and for maximum effect you'd probably either want to max the line or go 3-3. I think this deck could use some sort of back-up attacker as people have been suggesting, such as something splashable and cheap that also benefits from your discarding like Blissey. Scizor or Steelix might also be considered for the metal compatibility, with an emphasis on Scizor.

Regardless of what you do with those suggestions, I would definitely drop some energy for 2 more Snowpoint Temple as well as 1-2 additional Time Space Distortion and a couple Cynthia's Feelings. The latter will come in especially handy here since you have no Claydol and you will also be experiencing KOs pretty frequently even if you do get Doom Desire to stick with the low HP of everything here. Energy Pickup is also pretty much screaming to be used here as well, for the reason mewoxys666 gave (which is very obvious) of being able to do back-to-back Doom Desires without using up a turn on Rotom.