Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

THE Deck to Beat

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With Regionals rolling around in a couple of days, an important question comes up.

Is there a deck one must be able to face? Is anything so omnipresent in the metagame that if one isn't playing it, one had better be able to beat it?

Last year it was LBS. Is there anything of the sort now? I can't really think of anything...
 
metanite is not NEARLY as good as lbs, but is just as popular, so be prepared to face it, but you can DEFINITELY win with other things
 
its everywhere this year but you had better be able to contend with flygon ex d/destiny/metanite/bannette/delta/R-Gon/and Flariados
 
your deck must be able to handle most of the format
if you only have 2/3 of the decks covered, you could be in for a world of pain
 
Metanite and MSN.

Anything that can beat both of those consistantly probably has a good chance vs. the rest of the format.
 
good question

I think the deck to beat is Bandoom w/ giant stump. It's like pick your poison. Either you keep the latilock that you teched in for the match-up, while only keeping 2 main pokemon or you discard them and go back to the trainer lock.
 
Metanite and Flygon Ex d are probably the most common decks out there. Delta/Raieggs and Bandoom are probably the next 2 most common, but both have had problems recently with Flygon Ex d decks being played so much.

The rest of the field has quite a few very dangerous decks that can easily wreck whatever you are playing, with decks like Sallygross, Mewtric, MSN, Flariados, and Stantler all attacking from different angles and doing their jobs very well usually.

Finally there are the Rogue and "Secret Decks" that could be anything really and rely on your opponent not knowing what to do and what the threats are that might show up. Destiny, Absol Ex based decks, and hand disruption decks fall into the last category.

Given all these threats a deck that is very consistant and versatile enough to handle many different threats is probably your best bet. If I were going I would probably be bringing Metanite for a few reasons; I'm comfortable with the deck and how it works, it's very consistant, it can hit for a lot of damage easily, it has just enough room to add in odd tech cards that might take people by suprise (always a good thing when playing a commonly played deck).
 
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Metanite IS the deck to beat, but GL ;(

Team M(etanite) has been working long and hard on new versions of metanite :D
 
R-gon is the deck to beat. There's not a single other deck out there with 0 autolosses.

There is only one deck to BEAT, and it's undoubtedly R-gon.
 
Flygon/mew, Metanite, and Destiny are the 3 I'm worried about for Midwest Regionals. Bandoom with the right tech seems like the play to handle that though.
 
For me, "being able to face" an opposing deck isn't about building my deck a certain way. It's about researching the opposing deck, researching the matchup, knowing what to expect, practicing the matchup from both sides until you know all of the ins and outs. I think that's the best way to be prepared for the "deck to beat," whatever it may be.
 
Adrien D. is winning events like crazy with MSN , even last week-end he won on saturday , and droped at 7-0 on Sunday to be sure not to lose points ...
 
Like Dragonite Ex D and Metagross (DX) or what?
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We had dragonite ex d literally since it came out, and metagross DX from last year =/

Besides, I can't tell you :p

MSN is a threat, but not the deck to beat. It isn't popular enough.
 
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