Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Heatran lvl X and Magmortar lvl X

Its a good combo in theory. But the heavy retreat cost of heatran makes it unplayable because its REALLY hard for him to level up.
 
You can Warp Point and Level Max effectively. And Bench Shielding makes it immune-ish to Flygon. There's not much of a reason not to play this, except for speed and consistency, which are mutually exclusive in this concept - either you run some kind of energy acceleration, which hurts consistency, or you don't run acceleration, which hurts speed.
 
I played a deck like this at states, I was using magnezone, and had no chance to setup. Took out all my magnimites. She used energy link and switch to change between magmortors and move the energy to her pleasing. It got set up really fast, I think it was t2 when she got 2 magmortors and 2 dols set up. I don't think she used Magmortora Lv.X's attack and heatran wasn't even in her deck.
 
That's a completely different strategy altogether, which was already very successful two formats ago (when SW was first released). The idea is to tank up with Magmortar and use its first attack to do a LOT of damage (20x number of energy?!). The Lv. X is for burn damage and better HP.
 
Heatran is a pain.

You don't want to start with it.

You can't retreat it, so you end up losing a ton of deck space to Warp/Switch/flippy Level Max (none of which you can play if Trainer Locked)

If you don't Bench Shield it, it will die to Flygon.

If you DO Bench Shield it, you can't Unown G it, so Heatran will die to Gengar, or be switched active with Luring Flame or Inviting Trap (yep, Flygon decks own Heatran either way).

Gengar X's Level Down makes Heatran cry.

Is that enough reasons to avoid it, yet?
 
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