Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

TRUK Engine

I can't imagine the engine being good in too many decks. Especially ones that need set up or run heavy tools. It's similar to Kricketune but a little different. It's not a bad engine, but it doesn't have the power of a truck.


Here's my Trainer Break down.
Think about it this way in case you have doubts the engine i posted. Remember to build the deck in your head, windstorm is necessary in Moving TRUK...think about all the cards that way and you'll understand)

Alright here, let me break this thing down. I'm not going to break it down for nothing.

Here's a playable trainer break down.

Stadiums
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Battle Frontier(Doubtfully used, because of cat in Pickup truk)
Crystal Beach ( not ran, boost and scramble are both used in Blissvariants)
Drakes Stadium (Some blissey builds run it, not an engine though)
Holon Legacy (Great tech card if you're not playing Vireiss, metagame card though not an engine)
Speed Stadium ( Combos great w/ TGW, wether you win or lose it helps if you're lucky but giving the opponent the ability sucks)

Tools
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Buffer Piece(Not an engine card)
Strength Charm(Not an engine card)
Crystal Shard(not used because Blissey is already colorless)
Cessation Crystal(Not used unless it's straight blissey or lucario blissy)


Draw
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Bill's Maintenance(not part of truk, because TV rep would be used instead)
Copycat (this card is being oddly more popular to the point where i've seen 4 ran, maybe the base of TRUK engine)
Holon Adventurer (Tv reporter is better in a non delta deck)
Island Hermit (Great card, this could be used as draw in the engine but 2 cards as opposed to 3 is kinda bad...seeing prizes is always a plus)
Stevens Advice( Great draw card, with non-supporters it combos well and so many benched these days)
Pokedex Handy910(Great card, free draw and you get to choose. Combos with Dusk Ball)
Prof Oaks Research(With alot of non supporter trainers this card is tops, goes well with Poke/dex/nav and Balls)
Pokenav(Great Card, no downside you get to rearrange the top cards and then draw them with Power of evo or Blissey or copycat or TGW to shuffle 'em away)
TV Reporter(Is used, discard an NRG and reattach it to bliss too good not to be used)

Search/Set Up/Disruption
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Castaway (Too good not to be used, but it's possible they don't)
Celio's Network (One of the best search cards, unless balls are run they should use this)
Dual Ball ( Too risky to use, but it's possible but doubtful)
Dusk Ball ( Combos really well with Pokedex to help with grabbing a pokemon, since Pokedex puts them on the bottom)
ER2 (Maybe this is ran for the Mirror but I doubt it)
Energy Restore (Might go well in bliss catty but i doubt that)
Energy Search (Possible, this out the deck pitch the NRG to Delcatty insures 2 NRG a turn to Bliss)
Great Ball( Ball engine is good combined with Castaway engine, this might be in it)
Master Ball(Once again same problem with dusk)
Holon Mentor(THis card is beyond amazing, should be stapled in a lot of decks, pitches for the bliss and fetches set up, though it may be overkill due to low basics)
Mr. Stones project (Not good enough, Blissey attaches it herself, you should have enough in hand)
Night Maintenance(great Card,but I think that TSD is better in this deck because shuffling NRGS in dosn't help too much)
Old Rod(Mediocre card, mini-tsd or an item finder, could be good however one heads and one tails makes it a dead card)
Night Pokemon Center(Good card if you're lucky however discarding all of Blisseys precious NRGS blows)
Poke Ball(To risky and not good enough)
Potion(Not the greatest helps against Lucario)
Pokemon Fanclub(Mentor is better, Blissvire would never run this since it benches them stopping baby evolution combos)
Proffesors Cozmos Discovery(Combos w/ pokenav and pokedex)
Prof. Elms Training Method(Not used...that simple)
Quickball (It's part of the engine, it's good)
Rare Candy(Used in the original TRUK Ramparados build but taken out for Blissy)
Switch ( Good card actually, warp point is better so this isn't used)
Windstorm (Blisscat and Vireiss use it, that simple)
Scott(This card played as a single is good played as multiples is unecessary)
Super Scoop up ( Great card really helps in blissey, let the damage build up and then scoop it back but before doing so move some of those electric over to your Electivire :)
 
The TRUKs are just great decks that are WINNING TOURNAMENTS right now that are only called TRUKs because we are having fun naming them (and winning with them)

There are MANY people WINNING TOURNAMENTS right now. Only a small portion of them are running the so-called "TRUK" engine.

Could it be that the players are giving the trainer engines credit when its more the player's skill that is winning them the tournaments? I think so. Because people with the "TRUK" engine are losing games too, so it isn't unbeatable.
 
TRUK engine discovered!!!! Team HB will probably deny it to keep it secret but this really is it.

The idea is to play trainers and not supporters so when you wager or copycat you can play more cards, the deck runs happiny for an added affect.

4 Pokedex 910
3 Copycat
2 TGW
3 Quickball
4 Great Ball
2 TSD
3 TV Reporter
3 Celio\'s

Yeah, you caught them
They run quick ball in Electavire Blissey and Ice TRUK, where there are 5 different pokemon they could possibly grab =/

Im not Team HB, and i can officially confirm this is not the trainer list
Still, nice try
 
SuperWooper: One of the reasons people were stressing how good TRUK was was it being a singular trainer engine that was just so good that it was used in multiple decks. If the trainer engine differs from deck to deck, how can they all be TRUK? There must be some common denominator among all the TRUK trainer engines, but if it's just a few cards, why is the engine that special then?

You're like 90% of the way there in your reasoning.

It's not necessarily about the TRUK engine. It's just about the TRUK.

"One of the reasons people were stressing how good TRUK was was it being a singular trainer engine that was just so good that it was used in multiple decks." - The "people" you mention here probably weren't a part of the TRUK thing from the start. They're just taking stabs in the dark.

Common denominator? Somewhat. But it's not so simple. Read Bobby's post again.
 
All TRUK's don't have the same engines. So we are to assume that each TRUK (Ice TRUK, Moving TRUK) has an engine made specially for it. But for all of them to be called TRUK, each of the trainer engines must have cards in common.

I still don't see what your hinting to.
 
You guys are just encouraging them. The TRUK is nonsense.

Its like me naming my decks after curtains.

There is the SHOWER Curtain, not to be confused with the IRON Curtain, or the EXTRAVAGANT Curtain, etc.

Build a deck with good cards. Test it till it works. Done. Stop wasting time trying to figure out what a TRUK engine is.
 
All TRUK\'s don\'t have the same engines. So we are to assume that each TRUK (Ice TRUK, Moving TRUK) has an engine made specially for it. But for all of them to be called TRUK, each of the trainer engines must have cards in common.

I still don\'t see what your hinting to.

Its like the holon engine Prime
The holon engines in decks often differ from one another
I used 4 trans, 4 ment, and i never used adv
Others used different ones
But they were all based around the same concept, bieng able to easily cycle through your deck

Not an exact example, for sure, but you get the point
All the TRUK engines differ from deck to deck, but they all have the same basis, consitant and fast setup
 
there are alot of combo's to play now, of the top of the head;
t1 mentor/castform draw
scottaway (though i find it very limited)
tvr/celio (i don't know, this is technically an engine i suppose)
balls/dex/nav (i like this engine, mega fast, a 12 card beast)

then, the ultimate untested engine; 4 dex, 4 nav, 4 victory medal, 4 master ball, 3 scott (if you play stadiums). i can see this working quite nicely.
 
The HB guys will prolly never talk to me again for this, but we all know (okay, everyone except for the people on gym) the truk engine is 4 master ball and 4 dusk ball with 4 professor cosmo. You play the right ball based on the outcome of your cosmo play, since you thinned the deck in that direction.
 
Oh don't tell me it's all based around 4 Castaway or something. That's lame if it is. That's like the first thought everyone and their grandma had when transceiver was rotated out.
 
Oh don't tell me it's all based around 4 Castaway or something. That's lame if it is. That's like the first thought everyone and their grandma had when transceiver was rotated out.

This whole debate is lame and shouldn't even be happening.
 
The HB guys will prolly never talk to me again for this, but we all know (okay, everyone except for the people on gym) the truk engine is 4 master ball and 4 dusk ball with 4 professor cosmo. You play the right ball based on the outcome of your cosmo play, since you thinned the deck in that direction.

Well now that you let it slip...

If you have space, you should DEFINITELY use Unown ITEM to get the correct ball!
 
The HB guys will prolly never talk to me again for this, but we all know (okay, everyone except for the people on gym) the truk engine is 4 master ball and 4 dusk ball with 4 professor cosmo. You play the right ball based on the outcome of your cosmo play, since you thinned the deck in that direction.
HAH! Niice, man that'd be remotely playable if you didn't shuffle after the balls...nah even then it wouldn't be that good.
 
There are MANY people WINNING TOURNAMENTS right now. Only a small portion of them are running the so-called "TRUK" engine.

Could it be that the players are giving the trainer engines credit when its more the player's skill that is winning them the tournaments? I think so. Because people with the "TRUK" engine are losing games too, so it isn't unbeatable.

Ok, there are only 9 members of HB and we've won maybe 70-80% of the tournaments we've had a chance to play in. Of course theres "many people winning many tournaments" but any tournament an HB member has been to, they have won or did well in except for one. Every good deck loses games due to luck. I can tell you that my only 2 losses on the season (22-2 record so far) are completely illegit and because of 1. a mid game riolu flip killing my lone budew after I held the nuts in my hand after budewing for a fossil (bad start recovery) and 2. draw/attack for 7 straight turns when any supporter would of given me the win (lost by 1 prize even with that bad luck)

People who Team HB members have given decks to have also found sucess (Bobby, Kettler's bro etc).

And Arcticjedi forgot about the 2-4 Ledian d and 4 Potions so you never die. How can you forget something that important Matt!
 
The TRUK engine is so obvious. It obviously consists of POKEMON cards! I don't know what these "trainer" things you guys are talking about is. I think this is a Pokemon game. ;P

oh btw, the engine is 4 Pokeball, 4 old rod, 4 victory medal 4 pokenav 4 pokedex handy ##### 4 dusk ball 4 masterball 4 quick ball
 
The TRUK engine is so obvious. It obviously consists of POKEMON cards! I don't know what these "trainer" things you guys are talking about is. I think this is a Pokemon game. ;P

oh btw, the engine is 4 Pokeball, 4 old rod, 4 victory medal 4 pokenav 4 pokedex handy ##### 4 dusk ball 4 masterball 4 quick ball

Seriously, WTT???
 
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