scotty: yeah, the 7 basics is eh... but you know me and being able to work with low numbers like that. still some more would be nice, but the wynauts weren't helping enough, and dunsparce is no good when i'd just be pulling 3 ralts out, so i just left it with zig and linoone. i've been playing on appr and yeah, i need another gym, which i've put in, cause it's just really helpful. the 4 tv reporter, 4 cat, and 3-3 gardy/ex were my attempts to speed the deck up back when i had wynaut in there. i think i can lower all those counts some, but trust me, there's always SOMETHING to discard for tv reporter.
venom: like i said up there, wynaut aren't fast enough nor helpful enough, and dunsparce has nothing to search for, so those wouldn't go good. i might try the master/dual ball though, expessially since it's not a supporter. jirachi might be an option too, i'll have to see, one of the problems with wynaut not helping enough though was that it could just get pokemon and sometimes r/c or drawing cards are nice to get (which you can get with linoone). still, jirachi evos the poke right there, so that might be nice. i'll see.
i'm still kicking around some tweaks to the older style that i used to play, as well as the new style, so we'll see where that takes me. the main thing i see in both versions though is that i have to be able to keep cycling or adding to my hand so that i'll always have something new to work with and can get the stuff i need. if my hand sits stagnant for too many turns everything just flops. thanks for commenting, any more help is always appriciated.
-Ditto