Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

HGSS-on Royal Donphan

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Strategy: Okay, after much mulling around and deciding that I did not want to run something with Yanmega or Magnezone I sat dow with my friend over Fb chat and pounded this out. The basic concept of this deck is to get Donphan and Serperior set up as fast as possible and tank the entire game with Donphan. The deck is actually pretty fast to set up seeing as Donphan is a stage 1 and you can get Serperior out with Rare-candy. The only real worry is a first turn blow out from Zekrom, or early Pkm catcher and sniping of Snivy, in fact the real problem with this deck is that they may be able to stop you from getting out Serperior at all. So any help on how better to prevent that would be GREAT!

Deck:

Pokemon: 20
4-4 Donphan Prime
3-2-3 Serperior (ability)
3 Cleffa
1 TyR

T/S/S: 28
4 PONT
4 Junk Arm
3 Pokemon Collector
3 Pokemon Communication
3 Rare Candy
3 Plus Power
2 PETM
2 Switch
2 Pokemon Reversal
2 Seeker

Energy: 12
9 Fighting
3 Rainbow Energy

I would like to cut out the Plus Power, the only reason they are here is for hitting 130 damage in 2 turns with EQ. One Spot I would devote to FSL, the other slots, I would like to see a couple more pokemon, we batted around ideas of Energy Heal Onix and many others but nothing really struck home. The one question I know many will ask is why no Reuniclus? A number of reasons really

1) I dont think its needed. You are healing 10HP at the end of every turn to all Pkm, getting rid of Donphan's bad effect to Eq attack. Moving the damage doesnt really help, maybe a Reuniclus/Ursaring build would benefit from it.

2) We know Pokemon Catcher is coming out, which in turn will make it very easy to KO the 90 hp stage 2. at least with Serperior can get hit by Zekrom (with out Pp or boost) once and still be around.

3) Space. Yeas I know I want 2 more pokemon in here but just a chinsy 1-1 tech line or a back up hitter for Donphan. Not a whole 2-1-2 line.

Would also like to rely on something else than babies for setup because they can be sniped easy by Yanmega.
 
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I played this deck and believe me when I said it is amazing. I only played a 2-2-2 serperior as oppose to 3-2-3 and 2 rare candies. I will admit I don't like babies with Donphan even with serperior. cause I like the ability to hit turn 2 for 60. I played a line 4-4 Donphan. 2-2-2 Serperior and 2-2 Noctowl with the draw power. It did great. I will though admit that When I finally gave in to Machamp with Donphan Serperior was no more :) lol so with 1 rare candy gone and a 1-1 of the serperior line I would think about SSU?
 
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I played this deck and believe me when I said it is amazing. I only played a 2-2-2 serperior as oppose to 3-2-3 and 2 rare candies. I will admit I don't like babies with Donphan even with serperior. cause I like the ability to hit turn 2 for 60. I played a line 4-4 Donphan. 2-2-2 Serperior and 2-2 Noctowl with the draw power. It did great. I will though admit that When I finally gave in to Machamp with Donphan Serperior was no more :) lol so with 1 rare candy gone and a 1-1 of the serperior line I would think about SSU?
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I have been debating going down to a 2-2-2 line. That would free up 2 slots, minus the Pp, that is 5 slots. Add in FSl and I have 4. Im trying not to give into Machamp is the thing.... but with machamp, serp is almost redundent. The idea of the 3-2-3 line is to have 2 Serps on the bench, with only 2 serps in the deck that lowers the chances of getting them and not having one because of prize. I really wan to get rid of the babies but nothing else really hits me as a good starter for this except Smeargle.
 
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