Yet another Gallade/Gardy deck - needs faster setup

[Croatian_Nidoking]

The main problem with my Gallade/Gardy deck is that it's too irregular, especially with regard to setup. At the Coral Springs Cities, I actually missed top cut with a slighty altered version of it (w/Shiftry ex CG, Basic Dark Energy, and Bebe's instead of Dusknoir, Holon WP, and Celio's), but at Miami Cities, I failed miserably with it. Please take a look and see what's wrong with it, and suggest any changes:

"Lezginka.dec" (A brief explanation of the deck name here).

Pokemon:

4-2-3 Gallade SW line
2-1 Gardy SW-Gardy Lvl. X
1 Duskull CG
1 Dusknoir DP
4 Absol SW
1 Holon's Castform
1 Minun DP

Trainers:

3 Celio's
4 Rare Candy
3 Roseanne's
2 Castaway
2 TGW
3 TGM
2 Night Maintenance
2 Windstorm
2 PlusPower
2 Strength Charm

Energy:

4 Psychic
3 Fighting
4 DRE
2 Scramble
2 Holon WP

You probably know the strategy by now: Absol wrecks the opponent's hand long enough for you to set up Gallade (the main attacker) and Gardy (development/secondary attacker). Dusknoir is for shuffling your opponent's big guns back in their deck. Minun helps a little w/draw power and recovery. Castform gets attached to a Gallade w/a DRE on it so you don't have to waste Strength Charms/PlusPowers.

As a final note, I'll let you know that most of the folks in my area with G&G decks use Stantler or Mawile CG as a starter, so feel free to suggest that.

- Croatian_Nidoking

 

[David's Confused Pokedad]

for Dusknoir to work on a big attacker will you need a warp point?

 

[Mew*]

A few of the G&G players in my area use Furret as their setup Pokemon. From what I've seen, it is quite effective. You may want to try that out.

 

[Croatian_Nidoking]

I was thinking of putting in Warp Point; thanks for suggesting it, Pokedad. I also thought of using Prof. Oak's Visit instead of TGM in my deck in case of a mirror match (which your opponent will exploit to the fullest if he/she gets Gardy out).

In the Miami CC, I did see one G&G deck that used both Furret and Stantler. Don't know how well he did, though, or how I could possibly squeeze even a 1-1 line in.

- Croatian_Nidoking

 

[Crosplat]

If you want to make the deck fast get rid of the Dusknoir line, Castform, Minun, and Holon WP. Now add 1 Fighting, 1 Psychic (energy), 1 Gardy Lv.X, and 3 Oak's Visit. Also replace Pluspower with Strength Charm so you can search for them with Castaway.

 

[Aggy&Co.]

I would trade the Absol for Stantler as well. Instead of trying to ruin your opponents hand try getting yourself into attack mode to take the prizes.

 

[Croatian_Nidoking]

If you want to make the deck fast get rid of the Dusknoir line, Castform, Minun, and Holon WP. Now add 1 Fighting, 1 Psychic (energy), 1 Gardy Lv.X, and 3 Oak's Visit. Also replace Pluspower with Strength Charm so you can search for them with Castaway.

I do have 2 Strength Charm in my deck - I just forgot to put them in the list. I'll fix it ASAP.

I'll grant you most of those changes, but I only have 1 Gardy Lvl. X, and I don't see the purpose of adding another one. I'll keep the Minun and the Dusknoir, they've helped. Also, I'm thinking of replacine TGM with Oak's Visit, I don't need both.

- Croatian_Nidoking

 

[secretsof2113]

I run Absol, Stantler, and Furret in my varient. a 1-1 furret, 4 absol, and 3 Stantler. It's nice because you can really set up fast with your options. I'm considering teching in a couple other things though. I don't know. I played a GG deck without DRE at a cities and got 4th with it. The next time I played it with the DRE, i got 17th. Big difference.

 

[Croatian_Nidoking]

^ That's pretty odd, secrets, since every G&G deck (successful or no) I've seen uses DRE. I don't see how you could play the deck well without it.

- Croatian_Nidoking