Archeops - Viable now?

[cpeterik]

By the time your diabolical plan is achieved, your opponent will have all the evolutions in play that they'll ever need. Sure you can then use Jirachi, but thats, what, a total of 7 turns where you used attacks that do NO damage?

 

[RogueListers]

In response to cpeterik:
Yellow = turn they devolve
Red = turn they start attacking


T1: Eeeek! or See off or maybe Devour (if it's a Durant variant)
T2: RR + Plume Fossil, get Archen. Sludge Drag/Devour/Eeek!/See off Jirachi
T3: Archeops, See off Jirachi/devolve with jirachi through mew/Devour + collector/dual ball out jirachi
T4: Devolve with Jirachi/Start killing basics/Devolve with Jirachi
T5: Start killing basics/Devour

So turn 4 or 5 at most. and only 1 turn is in any scenario attacking for no damage.

 

[Rambo]

well lets see:
2 leavanny
3-4 mew
3-4 plume fossil
3-4 archen
2 archeops
4 research record
1-2 energy search

2 psychic
4 rainbow energy

20-28 cards.



i dont think half of the deck is junk arm fodder because only
2 leavanny
3.4 mew (if you play cincinno, zoroark or any other good pokemon for mew it will be useful somehow)
3-4 plume
3-4 archen
2 archeops

=13-16 cards != half of my deck.

are junk arm fodder in my opinion.

energy search, research record, the energy search and the energies can be useful against heavy basic decks

But i didnt play an archeops deck. if i find some time and if i am not too lazy i will build an archeops deck, play against a heavy basic deck (ZPTS e.g.) , a stage 1 deck, a stage 2 deck and a stage 2 deck with a basic pokemon as main hitter (e.g. tyram, emboar/reshiram) and let you know how bad/good the deck is.

Because 13-16 cards isn't a significant amount..