Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Top 4 Decks in Eon

Today at our EON tournament, our top 4 players played (in order of finish):
- Gardy/Wobby
- Typhlo/EX
- Mightyena/Sneasel
- Blazy/draw

Only the Gardy deck went undefeated (and easily I might add). So, unless something comes along in Dragon, Gardy will rule EON. JMO.
 
I just played against TRUk today with Aggron ex and got a terrible start. I used Boost to take out hi Gardevoir with like 5-6 Energies. I came back and was 1 prize to 2 prizes. He got his Garde ex out eventually and beat me. It was very close though. So now, these IMO, are the best decks out there.


1. Garde/Wobby (Still powerful
2. Blaze/Eggy/Delcatty
3. Aggron ex/Wailord/Furret
4. K-Tops/Xatu

~Eevee
 
IMO, Gardevoir/Wobbuffet can only be beaten by:

1. Gardevoir - a Gardevoir mirror match in which speed and/or strategically activated Pokemon wins the match.

2. Speed - KO the Wynauts/Ralts before they can set up.

The attempt at our tournament by one play to throw up Psychic resistance certainly caused some early-game problems for the Gardevoir player, preventing him from setting up quickly. But, after about a dozen turns, Gardevoir was "steam rolling" with very little regard for Psychic resistance.

SuperSaiyonEevee showed a GREAT example of how Gardevoir decks call typically go down in prizes, then come back and "steam roll" their way to victory. Sure, Gardevoir decks may loose to other things such as bad draw on their part and/or god-draw on the opponent's part. But, on average, Gardevoir "rules the table." JMO.
 
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Yah, a top 4 list really wouldn't do the format justice. I have a nice, tasty Top 10! :D

1. Gardevoir ex/Gardevoir (For god's sake, it is NOT Godevoir :rolleyes: )
2. Kingdra ex (Retaliate kills smaller stuff...fire killer...boo-yah)
3. Blaziken/Arcanine (both Aqua and Sandstorm Arcies)
4. Salamence (Resistence to Fire+Gusting=yum!)
5. Kabutops ex/Steelix
6. Kabutops ex/Omastar
7. Aggron ex
8. Wailord/Jumpluff (t3h Pooka deck r0x0rz j00 s0x0rz)
9. Shiftry/Cacturne
10. Flygon Burn (Ho Oh returns...only better and cooler!)

Also, I'm going to be posting a couple decks of these...please feel free to poke fun ^^""

~Patriarch
 
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Top 4? You can't sum it up in the Top 4. I'll do the Top 5, but that STILL leaves out a good number of good decks. Here it is:

1. Gardevoir/EX/Mewtwo EX/Wobb-Great deck. Consistent. Takes skill, but if played correctly, a real killer.
2. Big Fire-Whatever you play it with, it's great. It's consistent, but Water kills it.
3. Swampert-This takes a lot of skill, but it can be a great deck. I'm playing this and its a real killer to Fire decks.
4. Sceptile TecH/Slaking-I haven't really seen this much, but I've tried it out a little and it's pretty good.(Sceptile) I've played Slaking and it's really good. With Furret and Boost Energy it can be a real fast deck.
5. Expedition Gatr-This card is great, especially if there's a lot of Fire in your area.

The 4 and 5 Spot are up for grabs and a lot of decks could make it. I haven't seen Aggron played very much, but it seems real good. My bro plays Aggron/Linoone and it's pretty good. JMO.
 
Patriarch, ex Dragons isn't released yet is it? Cuz I don't know what Flygon and Salamence do.

~Eevee

P.S. Now if only we all changed our Avatars to Gengar to match this nice new theme. Wonder what Christmas will look like.:)
 
'Course Dragons hasn't been released. However, I'm just predicting what WILL be big when it's released! Never too early to think about the future, I believe ;)

Oh yah, check out www.fakecard.com
Fun stuff!
 
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Don't forget about Ampharos EX, this deck may make it to the top 10, if not the top 5. If you get it out early in the game, your opponent will suffer a lot gradually everytime they attach an energy from their hands. It's one of the few stage 2 pokemon-ex that has a resistant. Plus swampert and wailord ex fear it. This deck can work well with SS electabuzz (hitting a benched electric-resistant pokemon) and splashable psychic pokemon like lunatone, wobbuffet and girafraig from ex dragon to cover its fighting weakness.

The new girafraig is pretty good. It may be seen in gardevori decks.
 
Patriarch said:
5. Kabutops ex/Steelix
6. Kabutops ex/Omastar
7. Aggron ex
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I think you had a few typos (okay, not really, but I wanted to interject a point-hope you don't mind ;) ).

Kabutops Steelix lacks synergy. Why run it when you can get your fire dousing action through better and/or lower stage Pokemon. SK Starmie and SS Vaporeon spring readily to mind. Or better yet, you run SS Steelix with SS Omastar: load up the bench damage, then pull down all those Rare Candied evos for multiple prizes. ;)

Aggron ex might work in there as well, but the dual Stage 2 deck is still awkward.
 
hello everyone,

I figure its my turn to chime in on this one.

Let me start off by saying that i do not seem to go the traditional route when it comes to building decks. I am very rarely seen making archtype decks. I spend all my time trying to perfect a deck that can take down the so called top 5 in the format. In this particular format, that is only possible with the septile tech deck. I personaly will not build it because it was not my idea. needless to say whomever thought of this idea deserves some serious props! sure there may be other decks out there that can do it, only i have not seen them.

so, instead of giving you the same answers as everyone else. I will give you the top 4 red face paint decks that can possibly be a force.

#1 Septile tech~~~~ once again, this is truly a red face paint deck.

#2 Xatu/ Wailord EX/ wobbuffet~~~~ This is a serious contender. The power of healing in this format is unbelievable. In this deck wobbuffet does most of the damage. This guy can go a long time. All this, while I am building up the FAT water beast to take over the game. I run this with 4 oran berry and 4 potion. that keeps the beast healed to do 100 every turn.

#3 cradilly/ azumarril / wobbuffet~~~~ Oh my gosh. tested this deck out yesterday at league and the power of azumaril is CRAZY. with azurill and wynaut I always seem to get a great jump on my opponent. Cradilly is simply awsome, especially in team.

#4 kingdra / swampert/ tyrouge (aqua)~~~~ this could be a devistating deck if run with a 4/4 removal line and the fisherman/juggler combo. You could also put in some hitmontop for some better protection from electric types.

These are just some of my ideas. None of which have been seen on the boards. I have however seen some decks that i really like. most of which require 3 to 4 turns to set up. That seems to be normal in this format.

Anyhow, that my 2 cents.
jimmy
 
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Alright, after looking over Nick15's list of translations for ex Dragons, I came up with a top 10 for ex Dragon decks ONLY in order.

1. Magcargo ex (Better than the old one with Oracle only no Entei)
2.Kingdra ex (30 damage to anyone is good)
3.Magneton/Juggler/TV Reporter ( Low HP but good attack and if played right can pull some nasty tricks with Juggler/TV Reporter)
4.Ampharos ex ( Nice card if got out early)
5.Dragonite ex/Magneton ( Magneton can get back those NRG's lost)
6.Flygon ( Amazing!)
7.Rayquaza ex/Magneton(Same as Dragonite ex combo)
8.Absol ( Nice when your opponent has a large hand)
9.Shedinja/Ninjask (Pure Defense)
10. Muk ex (Toxic Gas is back:nonono: )

These will only work if the translations stay as Nick15 has them.:)

~Eevee
 
Otaku said:
I think you had a few typos (okay, not really, but I wanted to interject a point-hope you don't mind ;) ).

Kabutops Steelix lacks synergy. Why run it when you can get your fire dousing action through better and/or lower stage Pokemon. SK Starmie and SS Vaporeon spring readily to mind. Or better yet, you run SS Steelix with SS Omastar: load up the bench damage, then pull down all those Rare Candied evos for multiple prizes. ;)

Aggron ex might work in there as well, but the dual Stage 2 deck is still awkward.
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Note that the list was based off of three things: Local decks I've seen, decks I've seen on the boards, and decks I've personally been working on that proxy ex Dragons. A big thing I've seen played is, in fact, new age Kabulix. Since I made the list late at night, on a comp raid, you know my numbers might've been a little off here and there ;). Also, Aggron ex works better in a deck of its own (ie Aggron ex/Furret or Aggron ex/Linoone). Of course it can get burnt, but that's one of E-on's danger factors.

Also, a few of the decks on my list are borderline. Flygon/Linoone, a thing I've worked on, can't have field experience, unless someone wants to play VS proxy ^^""
(Expect more of a leaning towards Amphy or Muk ex in the future :D)
 
http://www.pojo.com/COTD/October2003/20.html

Where most can see mine and many other (dissenting) opinions on the new Kabutops. I jsut don't think they mesh: Starmie is easier to get going and Omastar is strategic power with a bench damaging Pokemon: suicide onix to load up the bench, then out of no where MF + RC + SS Omastar + (C) = gg. Given the amount of Rare Candy, it may be effetive without bench damage.
 
Venusaur said:
True a lot of people do play rare candy. But I dont think they rely only on that. They probably use a few of the stage 1s.
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Rght, but it still can hurt them, unless the previous stage has as much or more HP than the one you remove. :p
 
I don't like including the Japanesse cards as future reference in this because there is no guarentee that they will be in the next set. So for current english sets I would bet on:

Gardevoir
Chicken and eggs
Bite back
Chicken and kitty
 
I played a revised version of my Raindance ex deck at my tourney and it didn't do so badly...
 
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