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My son and I ran a Mightyena/Flygon deck for nationals and did not fair so well. Mightyena was the primary attacker with Flygon as a tech. In testing, the deck had some really good matchups and generally beat Gengar (pretty easy with OHKOs on Gengar for no NRG), Dialga G and Palkia G (OHKO...

I just tried a combination of Dusknoir (2-SF#1,1-DP#2) combined with Manetric (PL#11). With a Manetric out, Flygon can't hit your Dusknoir Lvl.X unless it is active and Manetric can spread/snipe DAMAGE to all those Pokemon with powers. I haven't worked all the kinks out yet, but it seems to...

Mismagius Gl Lvl X can be used very effectively to equalize hands. Its power allows you to pick up any number of TM's or Tools from your pokemon. I teched this into a Shiftry/Dugtrio deck and can always equal my opponents hand. Plus having a bunch of Evoluters and Devoluters available is...

I tried an Octillery deck with no rare cards and it really wasn't that good. I still like Octillery as regular deck though and it can beat pretty much anything with a couple of exceptions, but without the draw power and hand recycling power of Claydol, Octillery just is not that good. If I...

I just made a common/uncommon deck based around Mightyena. The hardest problem I have faced with these decks is getting some good, consistent draw power without Uxie, Claydol, etc. This is what my son and I came up with: 4-4 Mightyena 4 Unown ? 2 Skunktank G 1 each of 6 stage 1 random pokemon...

Vibrava's Energy Typhoon attack is excellent late game! I had a Flygon build for nats and in testing we often kept that attack open to the Flygon player for a quick KO. It worked great, and I would consider a memory berry to use this attack without the low HP of Vibrava. Incidentally, the SW...

A friend of mine picked up a deck by mistake. Same box as his with Venosaur on it. The deck he got had purple sleeves and his deck was a Flygon/Mightyena build. It would be great to get this back as he was borrowing the Flygon Lvl X from a friend. PM me with either a list of the...

In Juniors: Lily H. Gengar (not sure with what if anything) Stephen C. Beedrill Both are from our league!!!

These were written for athletic sports but I think it applies to Pokemon as well. The articles echo a lot of what has been said earlier. http://www.wayofchampions.com/articles.php

I was thinking of using Giratina to send things to lost zone after using a power and being hit by Aerodactyl's body. No more recycling Uxies and Claydol can be taken out with 2 Aerodactyl's, a Crobat drop, and one spread by Giratina. I might also consider a Far'fetched so you can search out...

I have three weird ones: 1) I was playing Gengar with 1-0-1 Nidoqueen line. Opponent has lone Uxie start and goes first and I start with Nidoran, rare candy to queen, attach energy, drop Crobat FTW. Chance of getting that line out T1 with a Bat is pretty darn slim!!!! 2) I start with Unown G...

Donks are not going anywhere, and I do not like it. Even decks that are not meant to donk sometimes do. My son was eliminated from finals contention at nationals without even drawing a card by Far'Fetched. Opponent goes first, attaches to Far'fetched and flips 3 heads - GG (well, not really a...

It is the humidity! I believe the problem with foil cards is that the foil side does not expand as much when it absorbs water or it does not absorb as much water. When card stock absorbs water, it expands a little bit. Thus, foil faced cards tend to bend toward the foil side when subjected to...

Mightyena is a fun deck but not really competitive. I do a "no-rare" challenge at my league where I build a deck with no rare cards in and challenge league players to beat me with any deck. This would be a good deck for this, but I can't see it working at a competitive level. It would be much...

Here's a quick octillary list off the top of my head: 4-4 Octillary 3-3 Claydol 4 quick ball 4 bebe's 4 great ball 4 Pokedrawer+ 3 Professor Rowan 2 Pokedex 1 luxary ball 2 Night Maint 2 BTS 4 cyclone energy 4 recover energy 4 call energy 4 warp energy 4 health energy The idea behind the...