Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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Rew said:
Azelf lv X is pointless.
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It's supposed to be Mespirit LV.X that I was talking about. Thing won't let me edit though. Come on mods, do something!

It's not pointless, either. One more card to potentially pull off 200 to something? It also does bench damage (part of the theme). Far from pointless.
 
I'm rerally surprised that I got such a low score on creativity after reading this. I mean you said that Leafeon was "fresh" and electrode wasn't, and we both know my list was not very standard. I respect your decision, but thought that was a little akward. I mean, the reason you gave me looks liek it should've subtracted from card use, not creativity.

Or purhapse I don't understand your view on creavivity?

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Where the **** did my edit button go >.> This was directed at Cyrus just FYI.
 
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Chad, I never said the fairies weren't unique. I was simply correcting mikey with saying that its power is great because its not an attack (pretty much counts as one though). Although, it could also be viewed that your list is basically a lowered out amu with leafeon, with tech fortress.
 
Prime, Unown Q is not meant to be played on Regirock. It's for any of the 1 retreat Pokemon he's using so he won't have to discard an energy for anything but damage. Regirock makes perfect sense in combining with Exeggutor in that it's Pokepower works with both of Exeggutor's attacks.
 
Regirock works with Exeguttor's second attack okay, but I do wonder how many times it can combo well with Exeguttor's first attack, and how often you would be willing to do no damage for the turn just to limit the opponent's hand. If you are running Regirock, you need cards in your hand to discard for it's Poke-Power, thus you will always keep your hand refreshed with Claydol. If your hand is always refreshed, how much of a trouble are you going to give your opponent when you do use Exeguttor's first attack? This is what I see. Regirock looks good on paper with the first attack, but honestly, I never see that combo ever being used.

The second combo with the second attack is the basis of the deck and will be used more often. But I would argue that there are better ways to play Exeguttor. Like my friend KingGengar is playing it with Togekiss. He drops a huge amount of energy on the field in one turn and just starts KO'ing all your pokemon with mass energy discards. Night Maintenance/Energy Restore+Claydol the energy back into your deck and Togekiss big energy again. This seems like a better idea than Exeguttor/Regirock imho.

No disrespect towards the creator of the idea, but it just doesn't seem like it would work at a real tournament.
 
The first attack was the basis of the deck. If you looked, he would put them to 0 cards and if they had a Claydol, Mesprit that turn as well. Next turn, Mesprit again and hit Claydol with Starmie. Then kill Claydol and they're left with nothing to draw anymore. It's not hard to keep your hand low for a turn or 2 with Regirock. You only need 2 Basics (Regi and Mesprit) and 2 Stage 1 (Eggs and Starmie). But you can get a lot of those in the preceding turns, plus it's only 8-9 cards TOTAL, 4 being basics. That's so easy.
 
FriedBlaziken said:
When will you be posting Round 2s samples?
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Great question.

Answer: Once both periods of grading are done. To avoid giving pods 5-8 any subtle advantage if the top entries from 1-4 are posted, I am choosing to wait until all entries are in.
 
Prime, the part you seem to missing regarding Claydol and Regirock combining with Exeggutor's first attack is you don't have to use Claydol if it's to your advantage not to. By not refreshing your hand with Claydol and discarding some junk you can cripple your opponent's hand and still refresh yours at the end of your turn by using their hand size. It kind of puts them in a quandry, if they do have a way of filling their hand back up, they might end up helping you out even more. If they choose to keep a small hand of 2-3 cards, they are already limiting their options for you so you can just attack.
 
I'm not missing that, but thank you for explaining it in more detail. Since you brought it up, if the opponent has a way to refill their hand, like a Claydol of their own, doesn't that just make that strategy not as useful? Regirock limiting the opponent's hand with the use of Exeguttor's first attack seems to be decent on paper, but realize that a simple Claydol ruins the idea and you have to waste a turn of doing damage to 'limit' their hand. I don't think it would come in use at all, honestly.
 
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I'm not missing that, but thank you for explaining it in more detail. Since you brought it up, if the opponent has a way to refill their hand, like a Claydol of their own, doesn't that just make that strategy not as useful? Regirock limiting the opponent's hand with the use of Exeguttor's first attack seems to be decent on paper, but realize that a simple Claydol ruins the idea and you have to waste a turn of doing damage to 'limit' their hand. I don't think it would come in use at all, honestly.
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If they have a claydol then you don't go for the lock yet, instead you snipe the claydol with starmie (after laying down mesprit)
 
And yet, you still have to get your own hand down to almost nothing in order for that strategy to work. So, let's look at the entire strategy on paper.

You have to discard 2 cards from your hand with Regirock to bring back an energy and attach it to Regirock so Exeguttor can have 1 more energy to discard with it's second attack. At the same time, you have to try to take out the opponent's Claydol through any means neccessary or shut it down for 1 turn with Mesprit. At the same time, while discarding cards from your hand, you have to make sure not to refill with Claydol at certain times so that you can use Exeguttor's second attack to force the opponent to a low amount of cards. That is like 3 strategies rolled into the same deck.

I find it hard to believe that any player could work towards all 3 strategies at the same time. I feel the deck would need to focus on one of the 3 strategies (energy acceleration, power denial, or hand shortage) to do well at it. Trying to accomplish all 3 just means that all 3 will be accomplished with less strength to them.

It's easy to come up with these ideas on paper and think they are going to work, but I honestly believe that when it comes to real games at real tournaments, it wouldn't work (exactly to plan) as it was meant to.

On another subject, where are more Sample entries? From someone sitting outside of this event, it sure seems boring not being to see any ideas or anything. The tournament has completed many rounds, yet 99% of the membership on this forum are completely oblivious to it since there is no communication and sharing with them of the details. It's like, "oh look, that person is doing well....and that's all there is to see...okay, next thing for the day."
 
Prime,

"So many rounds"? We've only completed two.

In addition to the bracket, I hope to post some tomorrow. I doubt I'll do a write-up, though.
 
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