Deck List Dump: Palkia Lock

WARNING: THE BELOW LIST IS UNTESTED, AND MIGHT BE BEYOND HORRIBLE IN A REAL GAME!

WARNING: PALKIA LOCK IS A PROVEN ARCHETYPE FROM THE PAST, BUT MAY BE HORRIBLE FOR STATES, EVEN IF THE LUCARIO VARIANT IS SUPER-GOOD!

WARNING: THE BELOW LIST IS CRAZY-AWESOME!

Pokemon (18):

3 Palkia G PL
1 Palkia G LV.X PL
3 Uxie LA
1 Uxie LV.X
4 Mesprit LA
1 Crobat G PL
1 Azelf LA
1 Unown Q MD
1 Bronzong G PL
1 Lucario GL RR
1 Toxicroak G PR

Trainers/Stadiums/Supporters (30):

4 Cyrus's Conspiracy
4 Pokemon Collector
4 Energy Gain
4 Poke Turn
4 Super Scoop Up
3 Seeker
2 SP Radar
2 Power Spray
1 Premier Ball
1 Pokemon Communication
1 Aaron's Collection

Energy (12):

5 Water
4 Call
2 SP
1 Psychic

(Is that it? Is that Palkia G?!)
[I don't think it is…Damn…]


The idea is pretty simple: use Mesprit's Psychic Bind to repeatedly assure a power lock for the whole game by means of Super Scoop Up and Seeker. The list could definitely use some hand disruption to make things extra cooler: Giratina PL, Judge, and/or Looker's Investigation are all awesome choices.

This is definitely atypical for SP, and – as qualified – could very well be terrible beyond belief. However, it's pretty easy to make tweaks to make this a more standard SP. It may take some work to do it, but you can feasibly fit 3-1 garchomp, 4 Double Colorless Energy, and an Ambipom G and/or Dragonite FB to make things work.

Also, to accommodate for your presumably horrid Lostgar (Gengar Prime Triumphant/Lost World Call of Legends) matchup, you might consider running Absol G LV.X, Chatot G, and a Lost World or three of your own.

(There…That's better.)


'Til next time,

-Heytrainer

Deck List Dump: Turbo Kingdra

A fun little list that I considered using very early in my testing for Cities, but ultimately dropped.
 

Pokemon (18):

4 Horsea LA
3 Seadra LA
4 Kingdra Prime (or 3 Kingdra Prime/1 Kingdra LA)
2 Crobat G
2 Uxie LA
1 Azelf LA
1 Mesprit LA
1 Unown Q MD

Trainers (34):

4 Pokemon Collector
4 Broken Time-Space
4 Junk Arm
3 Seeker
3 Super Scoop Up
3 Pokemon Communication
3 Team Galactic's Invention G-105 Poke Turn
3 Bebe's Search
3 Rare Candy
2 Expert Belt
1 VS Seeker
1 Luxury Ball

Energy (8):

8 Water

The gist of Kingdra? It's essentially Gyarados, only better against certain stage two decks (perhaps Vilegar), equally good against Dialgachomp or Sablelock, and worse versus Luxchomp. Our goal with this list is to give us more options with spamming Kingdra Prime's "Spray Splash" than ever before: with Seeker, VS Seeker, Junk Arms, and the Super Scoop Ups/Poke Turns, your ability to deal "free" damage is rivaled by almost no other deck.

This build is a bit inconsistent mid-game due to no backup recovery draw (i.e., Cynthia's Feelings, Copycat, or Professor Oak's New Theory). Therefore, you may want to consider cutting something…"What?" is the big question, though.