Since you miraculously never whiff on Expert Belt and Uxie (and keep shuffling in what energy you keep using to retreat Kingdra, as the max in your discard post psychic restore is five unless you're using attaching Cyclones to Uxie) and hit all of this by T2-T3, who's to say I don't miraculously hit Gengar/Queen/Claydol board T2? Queen techs make matchups harder for Kingdra universally, hence why people suggest things like Dusknoir DP or Dialga G to Boomerang or Stifle Queen. You run into further damage-arithmetic issues if they level up with Queen on board. You're also neglecting that your Gengar strategy is a 2HKO plan, which means your Gengar opponent has plenty of time to snipe your non-Unown G'd Claydols while you do this, and also assumes they don't set up multiple Gengars to shuffle around and give you further damage-arithmetic problems.
No comment on your list.
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Yes, I do whiff. It doesn't occur often enough for me to consider it a major factor, but yet, see it in writing, I do whiff. I never stated that my strategy for taking on Gengar was universal, Gengar is a very wide-ranging deck that now cannot be grouped into one. Most builds I have playtested against do not run the Lv. X, but that is my personal experience. I can set up by turn 2-3, I never said you cannot. I understand Queen makes my match-up harder as it prevents the spread from Kingdra's Dragon Pump. I never said my plan WASN'T a 2HKO plan, I said it generally counters blow for blow against your Gengar while you attack my Claydol. Who's to say you didn't have multiple Gengars on your Bench, who's to say I didn't "miraculously" flip heads on 4 straight SSUs?
"No comment on your list," well I don't see any of yours floating around. Have you playtested the list? Tweaked it to your meta? My meta is a lot of straight SF Gengar and DGX tanks, my list works fairly well against forementioned decks. Needless to say, your meta, and Gengar deck is obviously considerably different from what I've seen and played, so indulge as to what your list is. Give me the matchups, your opinions, and I'll incorporate them into the article. Don't just fuel the fire by jumping into an already conversation.
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How does pokedex fish out expert belt? It only looks at the top 2 cards! I'm assuming that you mean pokedrawers. Again, do you honestly expect to get 2 drawers early enough when I'm sniping your Claydols? I'm sorry but that's a late game play. You only run 3 expert belt and will almost never get 2 pokedrawers without Claydol.
Yes, PokeDEX let me move through the top two cards of my deck. Combined with Claydols, which, let it be known, can be SSU'd, I can avoid being sniped, allowing my Claydols to stay in play. Yes, I run Expert Belt, take away 13 cards for set-up, leaving 47 cards in the deck. that's a 1-in-16 card chance I can pull Expert Belt. Given I can Cosmic Power, SSU for another Cosmic Power or Set-Up, it is completely plausible for me to be able to generally pick-up and Expert Belt in a turn. Poke Drawers, I don't need to play them both at once. It is the smart play, but I don't have to. If I only have 1 Drawer and am in need of another card, I don't see how I wouldn't play it. Yes, you're right, generally it's hard to get dual Drawers without Claydol, yes, you can snipe however many Claydols you want, but you can't seem to remember SSU. That's not my one card fix-all. But it will occasionally allow me to rescue my Claydol, and BTS it again and Cosmic. Marley's Request lets me pick it up, or a Poke Drawer again, and then I can use whichever my opponent allows me and try again. I never said that I win every match-up against Gengar you guys.
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