(It's Tangrowth time…)
Apparently, this has been advertised as my "secret deck." I suppose you could have called it that at one point, but due to all of its losses in testing, as well it being, well….Tangrowth, it's worthwhile to declassify it.
Your duty, should you choose to test this deck, is to advance it past where I got it. It has great potential to be powerful against any non-fire deck, and tanks just like Steelix; however, it also hits much, much harder, capable of doing 100 by the second turn.
[WARNING: THE FOLLOWING DECK MAY SUCK. PROCEED WITH CAUTION!]
Pokemon (16):
4 Tangela Call of Legends
3 Tangrowth Call of Legends
1 Tangrowth LV.X AR
3 Unown R
3 Uxie
1 Mesprit LA
1 Crobat G
Trainers/Stadiums/Supporters (29):
4 Pokemon Collector
4 Bebe's Search
4 Expert Belt
4 Junk Arm
4 Moomoo Milk
4 Life Herb
4 Poke Drawer+
1 Pokemon Rescue
1 Luxury Ball
Energy (14):
10 Grass
4 Double Colorless
The strategy is brutally simple: Ideally do a turn one Nutritional Support with Tangela, drop a DCE and Expert Belt, evolve, and then Grind for 100. You should then Grind your way to victory, drawing a prize a turn with (hopefully) no trouble.
*The matchup against SP would ideally be a win through virtue of tanking. Unfortunately, though, their higher level of consistency, ability to play fire, and ability to donk leave you for one (or six) too many losses.
So do you have hope versus it? Yes, but only if: A) you're playing against a variant that historically doesn't run fire, such as pure Luxchomp, Dialgachomp, and Palkia/Lucario; B) they whiff a quick KO on you.
*Lostgar and Vilegar, however, are much different stories. The "base" build I run could easily run a counter to Vileplume, and as is, it annihilates turbo Lostgar by virtue of being able to discard all of its Pokemon other than a lone Tangrowth.
*No testing yet against Gyarados, Machamp, etc, and I don't plan on it. However, if you find a way to make this attacker better, then I would be very happy to learn about it, as well as open up testing again.
This is a very fun, easy deck, and if you're at a complete loss for what to give a new player, then let them use this, Kingdra, or Donphan.
Happy testing! T-minus four days…