NXD-on: Haxorus / Scizor

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The list:

4x Haxorus
1x Fraxure
4x Axew DRV
3x Scizor
3x Scyther
1x Trubbish
1x Garbodor
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4x Juniper
4x N
2x Skyla
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4x Pokemon Catcher
3x Switch
3x Rare Candy
2x Silver Bangle
2x Silver Mirror
2x Float Stone
2x Enhanced Hammer
2x Ultra Ball
1x Tool Scrapper
1x Scramble Switch
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5x Steel Energ
4x Blend Energy
2x Fighting Energy

The Strategy: Against Plasma decks, KO with Haxorus. Against Darkrai/Blastoise/Random EX decks, use Scizor. Against other random decks, beatdown with Dragonaxe.

Running Scramble Switch since Pokemon catcher can be an issue with this deck, though it does recover fast since almost all the attacks only take 2 energy.

Still struggling with this deck a bit from testing on TCGO - any advice appreciated, thanks.

 

[fluttercraft]

-1 fraxure -1 syther -2 colress -2 switch -2 steel energy -1 silver bangle
+1 garbodor +1 trubish +2 skyla +2 float stone +1 Random Receiver +2 tropical beach

any questions?

 

[Edzilla]

Why dump colress? She's pretty sick late game, thats why I chose to run 2 over 3 or 4.

Isn't Tropical beach only good for combo decks, like Blastoise and turbo trubbish?

Also, the reason I run 2 Fraxure, over the usually 4-1-4 line, is because DRV Axew's first ability puts him in my hand.

 

[fluttercraft]

the reason beach is good in this deck is because this deck never attacks turn one and sometimes doesn't on 2 so beach helps set up. it also helps comeback if your dead drawing or if your opp gets a ko and you cant attack the next turn. lastly, its a good counter stadium to virbank. i dont like colress in this deck because, at least when i tried the deck, you dont tend to have more than 3 pokemon on the feild at any given time. also, skyla is a big help in getting key pieces out like rare candy or a beach. i do however have one suggestion that i didn't make before. drop haxorus and rare candy to play a 2-2 line (or even 3-3 if you feel like it) of driflim. i chose one of each of the good ones to use but you can change that if you feel like it. i also tossed in 3 enhanced hammers. haxorus is in only for the plasma matchup but scizor can ohko a kyrem with its 2nd attack and everything else is an ex. drifblm can ohko anything in the deck mid to late game through a combo of hammers and your opp playing almost nothing but special energy so there are likely some in the discard anyway. the other driflm helps discard even more energy and it will ususally attack for free. if you do choose that rout then drop the blend for DCE and play 7-8 metal energy.

 

[Edzilla]

I think with Silver Mirror+Haxorus my plasma matchup is pretty good. In my TCGO deck, i do run enhanced hammers. I would like to find room for them. OP updated.