Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Speed scizor, The overlooked speed demon

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Elite_4_Allen said:
i test my matchups by league, with very good players.

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As to why i am so confident i can beat you baby mario, I know your good player but i think you fail to realize what this deck can do.
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how many top 64's nats?
 
No please don't say i'm challenging baby mario like that, i just think i might be able to beat him. He is a better player than me but that doesn't make him unbeatable.

At mattPL: i apreciate your advice, you too cetra.
 
Tyler, it's okay. You did your best at this deck. Guys, you've got to come to realize he hasn't played
as long as most of us have. He's just trying to make an attempt at a decently competitive Scizor list.


Though, I must agree with some of these guys, like Cetra. You've got a few too many inconsistent
"1 of" cards that won't often come of use. Look at Cetra's. No offense, but you could use more of his
list.

-David
 
David's Confused Pokedad said:
Tyler, it's okay. You did your best at this deck. Guys, you've got to come to realize he hasn't played
as long as most of us have. He's just trying to make an attempt at a decently competitive Scizor list.


Though, I must agree with some of these guys, like Cetra. You've got a few too many inconsistent
"1 of" cards that won't often come of use. Look at Cetra's. No offense, but you could use more of his
list.

-David
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Thanks david, you always help me out. :smile:
 
You know, I realized that it honestly doesn't matter that this list is terrible, that the writer is clearly uninformed of the new format, and ha tested against a rediculous slew of decks to little viable success. None of those are reasons why this shouldn't be on the front page. It's because it doesn't DO anything as a front page article. The list is too much of an eyesore to attract anythin other than hate, even if this actually turns out consistant and effective, there really is no insight as to why there aren't more Pokemon played, the match-ups aren't in detail enough for it to matter that they are off and it just doesn't have any quality or consistancy that makes a player want to try it out. You have 4 total attacker that literally have no support. if you play against a fire deck, you lose. If you play against bdif, you lose.

But that's not the worst of it. It's if you play against a deck where any of your Scizors would even BE effective, you run so little of them it's nearly impossible to expand on that wekaness and actually come out on top. Your opponent plays Garchomp C X with DCE? Well that makes Scizor Prime effective! Too bad they'll just use them on your other 3 Scyther and let Luxray with absic energy handle Scizor Prime. Try and make a stand with just Scizor Prime? Driflbim UD babby. And so it goes for every projectable match-up.
 
In my deck bag is a fun Scizor SF deck. But I run it at least with 3-3 Cherim's, 1-1 Vesiqueen, Turtwig-GL, Chatot, Sableye, Unown Q, Unown R's. 4-4 is somewhat asking for the Donk to you. Thus I found this article was interesting, but the speed of the competitive format makes this 4 basic deck like this not realistic. But given that this is a younger author creation, I think it is great. There are many of us who have never taken the time to published an article on the gym. As mentioned most decks can easily donk a 60 HP pokemon.

BTW. Everyone should realize that the best Scyther in the format is the JUNGLE reprint, PL-130. I went deep into my card boxes to pull out 3 of my old, and NOW legal Jungle Scyther, so cool playing a card that was printed over 12 years ago. Still free retreat, but 70 HP, and -30 resistence, but 2x weakness. All in all, give me the extra 10 HP. It's combination of attacks for a basic actual is about the same, because I run DCE and have T2 Donked with that Scyther.
 
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The mods shouldn't have put this up with all the mistakes (Like Pokemon Contest Hall against Luxchomp). It should have been looked at more and edited more.

So I think you share the blame for that.

But the list is just horrid for all the reasons everyone else has been saying about.

Why don't you (instead of saying, if I had RS I'd prove you all wrong) counter argument like everyone else does with their articles. You haven't done that once. And if you can't, well, isn't that saying something?

The fact is, chances are, there's a lot more of a chance, of you being wrong, than everyone else on this thread.
 
This is worse than the Darkrai article; the Darkrai article had more well-detailed insights and strategies whereas this does not at all.

I would like to wonder which mod let this on the front page and the reasons for him/her for letting this through.
 
I'm going to give you some guinuine advice on improving this deck. Un an Unown R/Retire enegine. You can draw cards without having a Pokemon with a PokePower in play. Also, play Pluspowers and maybe Buck's Training. You want to be able to KO with Accelerate as well. Pokedrawer + is a good card too.
 
Playing only 4 Basic Pokemon pretty much ensures that you will mulligan once or twice, allowing your opponent to set up. In addition, you play 19 Energy, and none of them are Call Energy. This might make it hard for you to get your bench out, and I can actually see some decks like LuxChomp Dragon Rushing twice while you play a Cyrus for a Collector, thus KOing your lone Scythers before you manage to get anything else out. In addition, having a bad LuxChomp matchup, like you mentioned, means that you will probably run into a LuxChomp during a Battle Roads and lose to that, keeping you from winning it. This will be made more difficult by the fact that LuxChomp is one of the most popular decks in the format.

Scizor is your main attacker, yet you only run 2 of them. I know that the other Scizors are good, but having only two SF Scizors doesn't really sit well with me.

It's an interesting idea, but I think it would take some work to get this deck running properly.
 
My only comment is actually a question.

If its an Auto loss against LuxChomp, why even post an article about it?
LuxChomp is the number 1 deck in the world right now and any deck that does that poorly against it seems like a poor deck overall. And other then blastoise, none of your listed match ups are favorable enough to make this worth while.
 
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