Unlimited Nightmare Machine (Darkrai)

[KoopalingJ]

I've been tinkering wth this deck since Great Encounters, and I'm pretty happy with it overall. Thoughts?

Pokemon:

2 Darkrai (Majestic Dawn) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=34906
2 Darkrai Lv. X (DP 19 Promo) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=33813
4 Sneasel (Diamond & Pearl) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31447
2 Weavile (Secret Wonders) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31888
2 Weavile (Diamond & Pearl) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31444
2 Rattata (Secret Wonders) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31951
2 Raticate (Secret Wonders) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31909

Trainers:

(Constant)

2 Moonlight Stadium (Great Encounters) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=33290
2 Amulet Coin (Great Encounters) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=33266
2 Night Maintenance (Secret Wonders) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31976
4 Dusk Balls (Mysterious Treasures) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31368
4 Quick Balls (Mysterious Treasures) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31343
4 BeBe's Search (Secret Wonders) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31975
4 Team Galactic's Mars (Secret Wonders) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31982

(Interchangeable)

2 Professor Rowan (Diamond & Pearl) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=31499
2 Looker's Investigation (Platinum) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=42340
2 Cynthia's Feelings (Legends Awakened) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=35683
1 Pokemon Rescue (Platinum) http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=towercard&imageid=42346

Energy:

15 Basic Dark

Objective: Start with Rattata for 20, turn two evolve to Raticate and either chance Gnaw off, or fall back on 40 with Sneaky Attack (since all Energy is :dark, turn three should have Darkrai and Weavile on the Bench through Trainer use. Switch to Weavile and Shadow Charge, then repeat the next turn. Switch to Darkrai Lvl. X with at least four :dark: and start wrecking, while powering up your other Darkrai as a fallback. If you lose a Darkrai, switch to your other, and use any of your "discard recovery" Trainers to get your lost Darkrai back up. Mixing Darkrai's Pokebody with Weavile's PokePower allows any Active Pokemon to turn :dark: , which gives them free retreat, and allows each Energy attached to them to do +10. Weavile's (Diamond and Pearl) attack allows you to not only do damage based on how much :dark: is attached to all of your Pokemon, but it also recieves the +10 for energy through Darkrai, so at the end of the game, it is devastating.

 

[NicoSpot]

Do you mind linking to the cards? Since none are new cards, It's tough to have to look up every card.

 

[TRAINER HEZ]

Hey, nice to see those good old DP era cards in use! Are you trying to keep this DP only or are you willing to take completely Unlimited suggestions?
I'm not sure of some of your choices, especially Raticate. In DP only I'd just stick with Weavile and Darkrai or perhaps Honchkrow Mysterious Treasures. If you're using newer cards, Zoroark Dark Explorers would be amazing, especially with Darkrai Lv.X backup.
Either way, I'd suggest holding Darkrai back and use Zoroark/Honchkrow as your main attackers and only send in Darkrai to take out a particularly difficult Pokemon. I've been using him since it came out and I feel his Poke-body is too good to put him in the vulnerable Active spot too often.

We play the Unlimited variant "Unlimited 150" at our League a lot and there's a couple of Darkness decks among those. My deck focusses on Honchkrow and discard cards like Mars to disrupt the opponent, with Darkrai as a powerful attacker in case they survive the discarding.
Another guy has one that uses Hydreigon combined with Weavile Secret Wonders to turn him Dark and abuse Darkrai Lv.Xs Poke-Body. The energy manipulation via Dark Trance is also very useful and allows the use of things like Max Potion and Pokemon Nurse to make Hydreigon a real tank.