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Darkrai Lazer

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AzUK

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4 Sabeleye
4 Darkrai EX
1 Keldeo EX

9 Pokemon

4 Bicycle
4 Ultra Ball
1 Computer Search
2 Virbank City Gym
4 Hypnotoxic Lazer
1 Escape Rope
1 Switch
2 Enhanced Hammer
4 N
4 Professor Juniper
2 Cheren
3 Skyla
4 Pokemon Catcher
4 Dark Patch
3 Crushing Hammer

42 T/S/S

8 Darkness

8 NRG

This deck is basically Speed Darkrai + Hammertime + Lazer + Bicycle engine.

Bicycle speeds up the deck, allowing Darkrai to be set-up T2 around 50% of the time and almost always T3. Lazers allow for +60 damage, with a chance to sleep. The hammer stall some decks such as Klingklang, which you can just Hammer away all the energies.
 
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seems like a good list but I think 1. you need to be using 12 energies yeah i know it sounds like a lot but trust me it helps a lot without cards like energy search. and 2 if your going the hammer route try 4 crushing hammers imo colress isnt needed in here since as a general rule you don't wanna bench more then one sableye. so
-2 colress
-1 keldio
-2 escape rope
-1? im not sure what to take out here but maybe the switch

+ 4 darkness
+ 2 crushing hammer
just my 0.2 cents
 
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I'm not trying to play hammertime its Darkrai Lazers with Hammers.

I don't need 12 energies, 8 is enough. Colress counts opponents bench too.
 
i think you should make this deck Hammers+ Laser for consistantsy reasons
so i would
- 2 keldeo if your not going to use blend other then that you 2-3 Koing Landorus which 2hkos you back.
- switch its useless
- 2 cheran Bianca is just so much better in this deck because your dumping your hand most of the time.
- 2 escape rope you have Catcher,making this useless
- 1 juniper your going to have some hands where your going to want to get a new had but you dont want to dump the stuff because it would be a waste of a Turn you could Night spear
to add:
+2 Crushing hammer just to make games easier.
+2 Bianca way better of a draw then charen
+2 Dark just to bump it up to 10 dark instead of 8 which IMO is to inconsistant
+1 Crushing hammer so you can deal with Plasma energy better
 
I run Bicycle so that Bianca is kind of moot, Crushing Hammer is a extra. Keldeo allows me to escape Lazers. As I said 8 energies are fine.

I run 4 Dark Patch too.
 
AzUK sounds like you don't really want advice, you argue every hint of advice somebody gives you.
 
I do, merely the advice suggested is not beneficial, as both want me to run more crushing hammer when i have stated this is Speed Darkrai + Hammmers not Hammertime, thus two hammers is fine.
 
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You need more energy. No bicycle. No hammer. Go 3/4 or none. Colress is situational. I personally wouldn't play it, but I could see it being good, so its your call. The problem is 50% of the time its gonna be useless. :/
 
I agree, Colress seems too situtational. Skyla instead of them. Trust me though, 8 energies are fine.
 
i also got a list about that speed darkrai idea but without crushing hammer and colress ( +1 energy , +2 skyla and + 1 dark claw)

and i think 8 energies are pretty fine , maybe 9 but 8 is really enough.. ^^

maybe you could cut 2 sableye to add stuff like skyla , dark claw , energy switch

i hope i did help abit :)
 
rt24 said:
AzUK sounds like you don't really want advice, you argue every hint of advice somebody gives you.
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Is he supposed to mindlessly accept every piece of advice he doesn't agree with, even if both pieces of advice were almost the same?
 
Dood u shood play plasma klinklang. It protects against EXs!!!!! id recomend a 1-1-1 line. I almost always get it out aganst my mom wen i play her. also id recomend some leafons and glaceons and umbreons cuz there realy good. also crobatz cool. it gives u like 4 poisons!!!!!!!!!!! id also put in a 1-1-1 line

hope i helped
 
AzUK said:
4 Sabeleye
4 Darkrai EX
1 Keldeo EX

9 Pokemon

4 Bicycle
4 Ultra Ball
1 Computer Search
2 Virbank City Gym
4 Hypnotoxic Lazer
2 Escape Rope
1 Switch
2 Enhanced Hammer
4 N
4 Professor Juniper
2 Cheren
3 Skyla
4 Pokemon Catcher
4 Dark Patch
2 Crushing Hammer

42 T/S/S

8 Darkness

8 NRG

This deck is basically Speed Darkrai + Hammertime + Lazer + Bicycle engine.
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Nice list! It's funny that I played my Crobat deck against a player running a similar list yesterday... I do like your version more though (you have Hammers; he didn't. He could not setup even by turn 4. That gave me advantages.)

I'd suggest the following changes to consider:

-2 Bicycle,
+1 Skyla.

-1 Dark Patch, You can easily Junk Hunt theses back into your hand.)
+2 Dark Claw. The extra 20 damage can change games!

-1 Switch,
-1 Tight Rope,
+2 Dark. You emphasized "speed;" so, I too think you need to get more energy into this deck. If nothing else, it will improve the deck's consistency, as well as speed.

Another observation: this deck loses "steam" mid-game when you need to recover Items and need to sacrifice Sableyes or even wounded Darkrai EXs. So, consider increasing your "speed" even more if you can. Early game is when you grap game winning advantages, not later.
 
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I'm just wonding because this is the deck I've been testing the most now how good is bicycle in it? It just seems like an aweful card to me.
 
TheFreshness said:
I'm just wonding because this is the deck I've been testing the most now how good is bicycle in it? It just seems like an aweful card to me.
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The "only" advantage I've found with Bicycle is when you have no hand and you top-deck it; do you can then draw cards; or you only have a Skyla in hand to search for a Bicycle and then draw. Personally, I still haven't found a great use for it yet and don't include it yet in any of my decks.
 
The deck dumps its really hand really fast, so Bicycle has helped. I'm trying to fit a Dark Claw, maybe over a Escape Rope?
 
A switch in a free retreat deck? 3 Skyla? Overkill. I'd replace the Switch and 1 Skyla with 2 Energy Switch. 1 Darkrai going down? Or have 2 Energies on Darkrai EX with 1 already on Sableye? Energy switch over the another Darkrai or from your Darkrai that's going down.
 
- 1 Escape Rope
+1 Crushing Hammer

Switch is actually useful, instead of dropping that extra energy just to retreat, or if I start with Darkrai and have a Sableye on my bench but only one energy.
 
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