Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Dr. Ifblim. Half-Doctor, Half-Balloon. All Awesome.

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4-2/2 Drifblim (MD-SF/UD)
1 Drifblim FB
1 Ambipom G
1 Bronzong G
1 Promocroak G
2-2 Garchomp C
2 Spiritomb AR
2-1 Uxie
1 Azelf
1 Unown Q
1 Crobat G

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2 Bebes
3 Pokemon Collector
3 Cyrus
2 Copycat
3 Judge
2 Pokemon Communication
1 Luxury Ball
4 PokeTurn
1 Palmers
2 Sp Radar
2 Energy Gain
1 Underground Expedition

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4 DCE
6 Psychic

Concept: Use the various abilities of the Mad Doctor wreck havoc on your opponent.

The SF Doctor has 3 nifty attacks:
Delivery puts any one card from your discard pile back into your hand. Great for getting back supporters, TGI and Double Colorless.
Lifting is your swarming tool, letting you put 2 basics with an energy on each of them onto your bench. This lets you set up multiple Dragon Rushes, and Take Aways. Another fun thing to do is to Lift in a Bronzong G and then Galactic Switching Energy to whoever needs more energy.
Ominous Wind does 40 and you flip to confuse and prevent retreat of defending pokemon. Not the best attack, but it has its uses.

The UD Doctor has awesome attacks:
Balloon Tackle does 60, but you take 20 recoil damage.
Take Away is awesome, causing you to shuffle in Dr. Ifblim and the defending pokemon back to each player's deck. Then, depending on the matchup you can promote Spiritomb to stop trainers, or Garchomp or another Drifblim to absorb the next hit.

The Facebook Doctor has a sweet body that gives it +40 HP when your opponent has 3 or less prizes. It also has a sniping attack that hits the Bench for Weakness and Resistance! This is nice for picking off Pixies, Vileplumes and anything else with Psychic Weakness.

Dr. Ifloon also has Delivery, but you have to flip for it. Its other attack does 20 and you switch with one of your bench. Good for hiding behind Spiritombs and Crobats.

Garchomp C can be a terror to your opponent, sniping threats before they get setup and healing off damage done to your SPs.

The goal of this deck is to mess with your opponents setup. Snipe stuff early with Garchomp or Take Away Big Meanies who you can't KO right away. A really funny thing to do is Judge+Take Away+Spiritomb. This can be pretty crippling to a variety of decks

It takes a turn or two to setup, but you can pretty easily wreck whatever your opponent has been working towards.
 
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This is pretty cool. I like seeing awesome rogue decks like this.
Ominous Wind is a good Mewtwo Counter, should you flip heads.. haha
 
Shiny Drifloon does have free retreat, but it only has 50HP. As a pokemon with dark weakness, having less than 60HP is scary with all the Sableye running around in my area. Also the MD Drifloon has Reaction which switches it with one of your benched. Nice for doing a little damage and then hiding behind a wall like Spiritomb, Crobat or Garchomp.
 
I think instead of BTS, I would play a counterstadium to bump out my opponents' BTSes so they can't get their evolutions back out as easily when you carry them away. Or, if you dropped the BTS entirely, you'd have room for +1 Cyrus and -2 Psy +3 Call. 3 Collector 0 Call seems a little risky to me.
 
I see what you are saying with call/collector issue... however I am finding myself running low pretty quickly on energy for lifting, so I'd rather not drop any Psychic energy. BTS is probably not needed. I might see about putting in 2 Draw Supporters or something instead.
 
I took the Doctor to BR today and got 4th. I lost in top 4 to Blazechomp. I updated the list to reflect the changes.
-2 BTS
+1 Judge
+1 Underground Expedition

Both seemed to help out alot today... though I am still having midgame energy issues... so I might drop one of the judges or something for an Aarons.
 
11 energy is always better than 10! ;]

From the current list, -1 Underground Expedition, -2 Psy, +3 Call. And I still think maxing out the Cyrus would be good. Best supporter in the format until we get Hunter.
 
Hey honchvire,

I just quoted your post in my local forum as a rogue deck to counter vilegar. Of course, i credited you and i hope you dun mind me quoting you without asking! Thanks =D.

Btw, did u play against any vilegar decks in ur BR?
 
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