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Trollquaza

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Firstly, I'd just like to clarify that this is purely intended as a mock deck, which is the result of an inside joke, revolving around the fact that Rayquaza EX looks like he's trolling in regular card artwork. The brilliance is, once the Fall Tins are released, the EX card will be a cheap promo, meaning this deck will be very easy and affordable to make. Here's the list:

Pokemon: 6

4 x Rayquaza EX
2 x Emolga

Energy: 54

27 x Fire Energy
27 x Lightning Energy

T/S/S: 0

problem? *insert trollface*


The strategy is fairly self-explanatory. Your turn 1 aim is to use Celestial Roar after attaching an energy. From experience, you will get 3/3 energy around 90% of the time (I'm unaware on the actual odds). 2 energy is almost a certainty. The 28/28 split means you have you good chance of getting 3 of one energy, 2 of the other. This means you can One Hit KO an opponent's active EX (without Eviolite) by your second turn, with 2 energy spare to deal 120 damage the following turn. This hopefully will be a good counter for the new Darkrai/Hydreigon varients which are emerging on various forums. You can knock out your opponent's Darkrai EX before they can use their Max Potion trick, but this is implying the Darkrai doesn't have an Eviolite...

However, the deck seems to lose a bit of steam after the opening onslaught, you can either Celestial Roar again, or attempt to recharge. Luckily, the increasing popularity of new dragon decks Garchomp/Altaria + Darkrai/Hydreigon allows Rayquaza to hit for Weakness (of course, the same applies to Rayquaza). Emolga is an opener in the event when you have no Rayquaza, but will mainly spending most of his time on the bench, serving as a buffer which you call for 2 new Rayquaza EX, this prevents you from losing by having no Pokemon remaining, thanks to Regis Neo for suggesting this, it really helped the deck's consistency

But yeah, the deck works surprisingly well, test it out if you're in the mood for a bit of fun!


This list struggles against Mewtwo, here's a possible alternative

-5 Lightning
-5 Fire

+ 2 Mew EX/ Mewtwo EX
+ 4 EXP Share
+ 4 Pokemon Catcher

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UPDATE:

Here’s a second list to try out. It doesn’t work as well because you increase your likelihood of discarding a key card. However, it’s still fun to play:

Pokemon: 9

4 Rayquaza EX (DE85)
2 Swablu (DE105)
2 Altaria (DE84)
1 Mew EX (DE120)

TSS: 8

4 Eviolite
4 Pokemon Catcher

Energy 43:

20 Fire Energy
20 Lightning Energy
3 Blend Energy

The Altaria is to pump up Rayquaza’s output, and the Blend Energy has been added to that Altaria can actually attack too, as Sigilyph out-trolls Rayquaza. The catcher is in to lure out Gible/Altaria/Garbodor/Support Pokemon and also to get rid of an opponent’s active Sigilyph.

The Eviolite is to give Rayquaza some support in a Dragon mirror, and also so he can stick around just that extra couple of turns longer. Mew EX is a bit of a personal choice, and is there for a few purposes. Combined with Catcher, Mew can pull out an opponent’s charged Mewtwo EX and KO it before it X-Balls a bomb onto your tanked Trollquaza. It also provides an extra attacker, in case you accidentally discard one of your own Rayquazas through Celestial Roar. However, it too is prone to catcher, and doesn’t benefit from Altaria, and is two cheap prizes for your opponent, but try it out.

However, as I previously mentioned, the deck’s strategy slowly falls in on itself the more and more you attempt to fill in the holes the deck has, but it’s up to you.

:pokeball: :pokeball:

UPDATE 2:

Third list, still not sure if I'm allowed both 4 Ray EX + 2 Ray post the LV.X mechanic and whether there's new rulings with the new EX's...

Pokemon: 4

4 x Rayquaza EX
2 x Rayquaza (128/124)
2 x Emolga (DE)

Energy: 52

26 x Fire Energy
26 x Lightning Energy

T/S/S: 0
 
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Without any draw or search cards, its unlikely that you will find a second Rayquaza. That means that, barring a Donk, your opponent will eventually KO your single Rayquaza. 56 energy is funny, but this could be a viable deck with some tweaks.
 
Maybe go with some Emolga or something/anything to search out more Rayquaza so you won't lose by having no benched Pokemon?
 
Thanks for all the input, it's very useful advice

I've made a second list with explanations in the main post, not too sure about it though!
 
Emolga may be the play, since sacking 1 prize is totally meaningless if all your other pokes are ex. Not too keen on the Altaria. Also, max potion + celestial roar may work.
 
Not too keen on the swablu, seeing as you only run 7 basics, and you have no way of getting out another basic apart from luck of the draw. I'd like seeing some normal rayquaza assuming the card goes down in price and a buffed up electric energy line.
 
If your oppoent had one siglyth it would pretty much over for you. And you have no drawing power to get altaria or pokemon catchers. But besides all of that this could be a lethal idea.
 
This is my problem, I think the original list is better, the Altaria is mainly in there as a counter for sigilyph, but I'm thinking instead of running 2 Rayquaza (128/124)? I don't remember if you can actually run that, I think the old ex's from the ex series could be ran alongside normal copies of the same Pokemon, but I'm not sure if the LV.X ruling has been brought over or not...
 
I believe the Lv.X ruling is used as they are not Pokemon ex but Pokemon EX.

I would definitely recommend the 2 Rayquaza
 
thepliskin5005 said:
But he will rarley ever set up altaraia. And if he starts with swabu it would be real bad for him or even mew.
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Yeah good point, just realised a lone Swablu can get donked by an opponent's Emolga if they're using the card in a deck using lightning energy such as ZekEels...

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Tempted to go 4 Ray + 4 Emolga with 52 energy?
 
just tested this deck with 4-emolga and it is a very good deck, I put in some pluspowers tho to KO the opponents emolga turn two
 
I'm glad you like it! XD

It does work very well when it gets going, what's your list looking like? How many Pluspower?
 
Yeah, I doubt you will ever have a mirror match between these two decks, but exactly what Rambo said, it's pretty much whoever gets the first hit, since you need 2 energy to KO an opposing Rayquaza EX. I'm slightly flattered that you would assume there would ever be a mirror match being played. It's still worth testing I guess, if you're ever thinking of actually playing this deck in an event, you probably should sort out a better list, if you do, feel free to message me for suggestions etc :)
 
well, my pkm club had a tournament today with a 6 card proxy limit (not a battle roads). i decided to run the version with the emolgas (4 ray ex, 2 ray, 2 emolga). i went 1-3 but all 3 of my losses i drew 5 prizes. i dont think altarias are needed here as there was never a situation where i would have been much better off with them, what i would like to see would be the inferno fandango ability. with how this deck runs i think it would be great to add in a 4-4-3 or 3-2-2, also some rare candies. then you dont have to worry about the slow down in the middle of the match which is why i had trouble closing out matches.
 
Yeah I totally agree, abilityboar would be a great addition, my only worry is that once you emboar, you then need rare candy, then you need items to get the pokemon needed, then of course you need draw supporters to even get the items in the first place. At this point you're more or less playing just an emboar/rayquaza deck, which is admittedly better than trollquaza.

Which decks did you face in your event?
 
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