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Just want a critique of my casual play deck. what I could remove or put in. Also, nothing expensive.
I'm on a small budget for cards.

My strategy, seeing as this isn't specific enough is getting
my setups fast ( sometimes with magby helping that along) and energy coming quick so I can
get heavy hits in as early as I can. Cinccino also only gets damaged half the time while doing 100
damage after his first attack.


3-3 DarMAXitan
3-3 Arcanine (Next destinies Firespin.)
3-3 Cinccino ( Next Destinies. 100 damage)
2 Magby (call of legends)
1 Moltres (Next Destinies)


4 Double Rainbow Energy
1 Double Colorless Energy
7 Psychic energy
6 Fire energy


4 Cilan
4 energy retrieval
2 Cheren
4 Pokemon communication
3 Gust of Wind
4 Professor Oak's New Theory
 
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you have too many types of pokemon going on, choose on 1-2 pokemon you want as a main attacker, right now im not sure what you are trying to accomplish with the deck. Its just random pokemon put together

also for the supporter line you usually want a minimun of 8 draw suppoters like PONT and Juniper unless you have pokemon that have draw power like magnezone prime.
 
What's PONT? I haven't been even playing for a month so it's not like I know all the terms
and what's the best. It's just quick and hard attacking. Are you saying I should switch out
a few of them for more of the same? Or are you saying cut down on the Pokemon and make more
room for trainer cards?
 
PONT= Professor Oak's New Theory, it's a Supporter card. And this isn't "6 Corners" (a type of deck) so reduce the types of Pokemon to 2, or 3 max.
 
Um, like what? First of all I'm not playing standard tournies or something. Darmanitan and
someone else? what if they have a pokemon that counters it, id be screwed, or suddenly that
pokemon's attack isnt good enough. Or, like one of my friends, they have tons of ex.

I'm just saying. I'm already doing pretty well, and 2 pokemon seems so lame ***. Yeah I can
see 3 or 4. But not 2.

ANyway, I was looking for helpful tips about WHAT pokemon I could have instead or TRainers, etc
not that i'm just wrong for having my deck a certain way.
 
well if your gonna make a deck based around darmanitan, you want to add 2 victini that lets you reflip if your not gonna add the victini dont bother with darmanitan. However if you are going with darmanitan, drop all he pokemon lines you currently have and add 3 tynamo and 3 eeletrik and 1 cleffa there both cheap.

Change your energy line to four double colorless and 10 electric energy, as for trainer lines your gonna want to put in 4 PONT, 4 Juniper, 4 communication, 2 switch, 2 gust of wind, 4 junk arm and 4 collectors if you dont have collector just use dual ball.
 
Are you kidding? I'll have plenty of energy for darmanitan for victini to not matter. That's dumb.
And changing my entire deck to electric for that? Also dumb. I get gust of wind and getting a lot
of draw, those are good ideas.. but i have fire/psychic because i want that.

I'm getting rid of the scolipede run for more cinccino and arcanine seeing as they are fast and
heavy hitters. plus darmanitan, that makes an intense damage layout. I could get rid of the
sevipers, but I like the magby because they give me time to set up. They are really hard to
kill unless you have bench damage attacks.

So yeah, 3 main attackers. A pretty much invincible wall for setup time. And lots of energy options.
I think that'll do well in itself with some tweaks.
 
You are clearly an inexperienced player. Listen to suggestions. Don't assume your deck is good, because it is obviously not. Focus on a strategy, like DarMAXitan + energy acceleration or Reshiboar, because Reshiram outclasses Arcanine.
 
You do realize that DarMAXitan is the only one that uses Psychic energy, and you have more of that than fire. In fact, you could actually drop all psychic for fire energies. It's up to you, though.
Personally I'd add Reshiram instead of Arcanine. But if you really want to keep it, at least add one or two Resh.
If you are not going to add Victini (Victory Star), you might as well scrap the deck. Much too flippy.

-4 Rainbow
-6 Psychic
-1 Minccino
-1 Cinccino

+3 DCE
+6 fire energy
+2 Victini
+1 Reshiram


If you wanted to make this deck a lot better, you could add a few Emboar (Ability). Just get rid of Cinccinos/Moltres.
 
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Okay, lemme just shell out all that money for emboars and reshirams I don't have... My rule again?
Cheap. Like a dollar or less. Emboar is like 25 bucks each..DCE is like 2 or 3.
I'm not going around comic shops picking fights with guys that
spent all that money making their deck league approved and awesome. Unlimited remember? As
in, casual play.

Sure I'd add Reshiram if I had some. Whats wrong with double rainbows? I see your psychic point
I could scrap those for some more trainers. And the chances of getting at least 100 with darMAXitan
are pretty high even without fliptini.
 
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Uh... What Emboars are you looking at?... Much cheaper Emboars here. And $2 per DCE is pretty cheap imo if they would really help you out.

What you still don't seem to understand, however, is that you need Fliptini with a DarMAXitan deck.
You asked for criticism of your deck, and advice on how to improve it for cheap. Everyone's given you ideas but you refuse to listen.

If you got all the Emboars, Reshirams, Fliptinis, and DCEs, you might spend between 12-16 dollars (if you get them from the right places). That is cheap. You can't expect to go pay 75 cents a card and have a good deck.
 
I flip coins for all my double energies, im bound to have at least 100 damage,

It just seems a little extreme to say scrap your whole deck if u dont have fliptini. Also, whats wrong
with double rainbows? i have 4 of those and 1 DCE anyway.

I've taken some advice here, don't think I'm slapping it all away. I do think Reshiram is a good idea,
Just saying Arcanine has a chance of not having to discard energy and he has good health.

But I get that Reshiram is faster as he is a basic

Plus double rainbows would help my arcanine wouldn't it? And if I got rid of my psychics, put
more fire energy, I would have more fuel for him AND reshiram.

Just saying. I'll see how I do without Emboar. If i start getting crushed, I'll add them in.

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What about this:

3-3 DarMAXitan
3-3 Arcanine (Next destinies Firespin.)
3 Reshiram
2-2 Cinccino ( Next Destinies. 100 damage)
2 Fliptini




4 Double Rainbow Energy
1 Double Colorless Energy
10 Fire energy


4 Cilan
4 energy retrieval
4 Professor Juniper
1 Cheren
4 Pokemon communication
3 Gust of Wind
4 Professor Oak's New Theory
 
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Sorry, I didn't see that your Rainbow energies were Double. I still might drop one for a DCE (because of the D.R.'s -10 damage, and only for evolved).
Anyway, looks much better now. Hope it works out for you!
 
Look for the BW version of Cincinno as its 100 dmg for 2 colorless assuming you have a full bench (20x the number of benched pkmn you have) Also maxing out the gust of wind/pkmn catcher would be abetter idea over cheren. and then maby swapping out 2 energy retrieval for junk arm/item finder/computer search.

But unfortunately no matter how many times you post the words "cheap" and "fun" on the internet ppl will always tell you how to get the maximum potential out of your idea/list.
 
If your asking for help ou shouldn't be trying to tell everybody off and reject there ideas. Just say thankyou or something. Geez.
Posted with Mobile style...
 
Hey, I've been taking the advice, chill out.

And hey, Should I take out the Cincinno run and add 4 energy removals? It might help
focus my attackers and keep my enemy at bay better at the same time.
 
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