Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What's In A Name?

Elite_4_Allen said:
Is it any good now?
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I haven't playtested it in this current format. I have to reconfigure the entire deck because of the change in meta. On paper it would be a bad matchup again SP decks with Garchomp in them (which is about 99% of them) If I rebuild it, it will be for fun. (which is actually how most of my successful decks start out)
 
This is an amazing article, I love ones like this. Also, for naming a deck, creativity comes to mind or just pure randomness along with hiding what your deck is made of (Breloom+Gyarados=Skydiving LOLwut?)
 
I think I'm a rogue in more ways than one. I also create quite unconventional names for my decks. I like more creative names for my decks, but then again, I play a lot of original decks--some of my names describe the strategy, some describe the main Pokemon, and some are poorly-named. Some examples:

"Styx" = Giratina/Metagross (after the band Styx and their song "Renegade").

"Spectral Seven-Ten" = Lanturn LA/Tentacruel LA/Dusknoir SF. This is a triple compound in a way--the Spectral obviously comes from Dusknoir, and the Seven-Ten is derived from Tentacle STRIKE and Energy SPLIT. Bowling!

"Maxwell's Maniacs" = Magnezone/Probopass. The name is derived from Maxwell's equations of electricity and magnetism, and is also honoring the game from Windows 95 Entertainment Pack.

"Knot Theory" = Tangrowth.
 
History lesson: Heelix was actually Dark Steelix with Jirachi Swoop engine, the name just stuck with the new one
 
Jaeger said:
History lesson: Heelix was actually Dark Steelix with Jirachi Swoop engine, the name just stuck with the new one
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Wasn't that back before TRR Mantine was errata'd? I LOVED that little deck ^_^
 
sdrawkcab said:
don't forget milotic!
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The turn 2 version didn't play it, if I remember right, just 4 Onix, 4 Dark Steelix, 4 Jirachi. I never played the deck nor put time into building a good list. I do know however several made top 8 at worlds in 05 just shy of getting any sort of real attention.
 
WOW. It's a great to get a history lesson on these decks. I came back into the game during HP-on format. I got to look at these decks and went "WOW! These are great deck ideas. :lol:"
 
Thought Infernape/Delcatty was dubbed Infernacatty or Infercatty. And what about Plox? And older, cooler names like METRO or Rock Lock??
 
pokemonforever said:
Thought Infernape/Delcatty was dubbed Infernacatty or Infercatty. And what about Plox? And older, cooler names like METRO or Rock Lock??
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I couldn't put all the decks of the past. I didn't want the article to be bogged down with examples to lose it's purpose. After getting the deck names together I ended up with a lot more than what was listed. Plox and Rock Lock were on my list originally.

As for the Infernape/Delcatty deck name. none of the compounding worked right so most people I was associated with called it Infernape Delcatty.

KazamBolt said:
haha Rabies --> RayBees.
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This is one of the weird ways that a derivational name happens. Same with Helix. It comes from the single or compounded name, but phonetics and dialects makes it into derivational when it sounds like a word that we're more familiar with.
 
IDK what I should name my deck. It's Jirachi/Seeker/Skuntank G donk. I was thinking like JiTaknKer or ChiSeeG, but idk. I'd like a compound name for it preferably haha. Anyone wanna help :D
 
Have you thought about the SS Jirachi? Compound names is hard to pull off with three names. Also, usually just pokemon are in the names of decks, not trainers/supporters.
 
sicnoiZe said:
IDK what I should name my deck. It's Jirachi/Seeker/Skuntank G donk. I was thinking like JiTaknKer or ChiSeeG, but idk. I'd like a compound name for it preferably haha. Anyone wanna help :D
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Don't think a compound name will work.

Here's some names I would consider

Stardust, Stardom, Starpower, Stardonk, Skunkdonk, etc... you get the idea.
 
Thanks for the Snub. our Deck was named due to two of the cards having the same word in their flavor txt . Rules out the window on that one LOL
 
names

So when does a deck get its true name? the first person to create it or the first person to win a cities/battle roads/states/ regions/ worlds???? or by what everybody wants to call it
 
well, it's a combination of both. Look at the new deck that people are trying to build, Lostgar. It hasn't won any premier tournament, for the simple fact that none has happened yet, but yet, everyone is calling it Lostgar (a single compound name). If it's a deck starts as rogue, then usually the deck is named by it's premier creator, but if it's a deck that people all over are using, a universal name gets used. It's really hard to say who starts a deck name, because it really happens so fast.
 
i ask because i won a cities with scizor/umbreon and wanted 2 call it Metal Fang but it it already has its name then i would like to know
 
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