Possible deck for States

in less than 2 weeks the states just north of columbus are commencing and I might be going... just posting this to see how it looks...

2x Jumpluff HGSS
2x Skiploom HGSS
2x Hoppip HGSS
2x Pokemon Collector HGSS
2x Ho-oh Top HGSS
2x Ho-oh Bottom HGSS
1x Mareep HGSS
1x Flaffy HGSS
1x Ampharos HGSS
2x Sunkern HGSS
1x Sunflora HGSS
3x DCE HGSS
4x Electric HGSS
7x Grass HGSS
2x Shaymin (Land) Platinum Base
1x Shaymin Lv X (sky) Platinum Base
1x Shaymin Lv X (Land) Platinum Base
2x Electivire FB Platinum Supreme Victors
1x Electivire FB Lv X Platinum Supreme Victors
3x Rare Candy DP: Great Encounters
3x Expert Belt Platinum Arceus
2x Palmer's Contribution Platinum Supreme Victors
2x Level Max Platinum Base
1x Snowpoint Temple DP: Legends Awakened
2x Night Maitenence DP: Secret Wonders
1x Poke'radar DP: Legends Awakened
2x Warp Point DP: Majestic Dawn
3x Super Scoop Up DP: Majestic Dawn
2x Roseanne's Research DP: Secret Wonders

Find a league near you and see about trading for 2 more Roseanne's and a playset of either Pokemon Communicator (HGSS) or Bebe's Search. You'll probably have to trade an arm and a leg to get them, though, and it may be more cost efficient to buy the Platinum set theme deck that comes with two Roseanne's. You will also want to look into getting a few Professor Oak's New Theory (HGSS).

I may have a better critique ready when I am not pressed for time on my lunch break.

I have like 4 Poke Communicators, I have the full HGSS set (2 ho-ohs, 2 lugias, 6 red gyarados, 4 alphs, 3 jumpluff and multiples of most of the primes)

Reason I'm only using 2 Roseanne is because of all the other stuff already in the deck, if it were 70 card deck I'd definitely want to be putting the stuff to pull pokes with, and most of the pokepulling is good to go once i have sunflora on the bench, will allow me to grab any grass poke out of my deck each turn, which'll have shaymin lv x out once i get a level max going.

I don't think that the HGSS Ampharos is that good. I think you should drop it.

Also, it'd be nice to know the purpose of the deck. Can't do much critiquing if I don't know what your objective is.

I have the ampharos to pump energies onto my ho-oh and other cards and if not needed for that just a 120 hp'd poke to do 80 dmg with.

Main purpose of deck is basically to kill, the shaymin's there to do damage and have high health running on Grass types, ho-oh legend's there for quick kills as is jumpluff I'm actually debating on maybe throwing another DCE in there since there are 2 ho-oh legend sets in there.

If I had access to a Garchomp Lv X I'd probably be using Lugia Legend instead.

the shaymin lv x sky forme is ther to combo with electivire fb lv x's 30+ attack.

I still think there are too many evolution lines for it to be effective, and if you are running that Ampharos, you would want something to pull it up to your hand, as well.

well the Sunflora takes care of my grass evo lines and X lines with its body or power or whatev, and the rest is done via the trainers that let me pull pokes.

In all honesty if I had the cards I would probably run a Garchomp Lv X x2 and Lugia Legend x2 deck with 2 ampharos (so i can plop energies onto the lugias and then bring the lugias back once killed already set to kill again XD)

I'm thinking of killing the Amphy Line for 3 more trainers or something.

I agree with Donavannj here, the more evolution lines you add to your deck the less focused it becomes, and you don't leave yourself much room for supporters. I think you should consider Bebe, personally I think it's a staple in any deck.

Rocket_Executive said:

I agree with Donavannj here, the more evolution lines you add to your deck the less focused it becomes, and you don't leave yourself much room for supporters. I think you should consider Bebe, personally I think it's a staple in any deck.

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Where I play, Bebe is a staple in every deck.

donavannj said:

Where I play, Bebe is a staple in every deck.

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Same, I wouldn't run any less than four.

I dunno, If i were to run any more search for poke cards I'd run more Roseanne's since they do basically the same thing. I'll consider it while I look at what to replace Amphy with since I have decided to ditch him and his family.

The key thing about Bebe though is that you can search for any Pokemon at all, while Roseanne limits you to only basic ones. Your opponent will be trying to evolve their Pokemon as quickly as possible, probably using Bebe and rare candy, and if you can't get those evolution cards in your hand right away they'll get their heavy-hitting Pokemon out there faster.

Shadowstorm said:

I dunno, If i were to run any more search for poke cards I'd run more Roseanne's since they do basically the same thing. I'll consider it while I look at what to replace Amphy with since I have decided to ditch him and his family.

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Running 4 Roseanne's and 4 Bebe's would work wonders for your draw power, and you'd get the same recommendation at least 90% of the time from anyone who has been to a few tournaments. Roseanne's pulls basic energy and basic Pokemon, while Bebe's allows you to get their evolutions, the Primes, and the Level Xs, and maybe a basic if you absolutely need it. I'd also recommend acquiring at least a 1-1 line of Claydol (Great Encounters) for its Cosmic Power Poke-Body.

Yeah I guess, so far out of my deck I've removed 4 cards, the Ampharos line being 3 and one of the 3 Expert Belts (I re-read the card details and was like eh... not 3, but 2's good XD) so I've got 4 slots open and I'm trying to think of good trainers to put in... will probably do 2 bebe's and a roseanne and then I dunno for the 4th...

would a looker's investigation fit well there or do you have another idea in mind? (you can modify the trainer sets any way you like as long as it sticks to the modified rules and stuff)

EDIT: I've removed 2 Lightning Energies and added another Grass energy since I dont need that many except for Electivire. so I've got 5 slots to fill.

Put in Professor Oak's new theory instead of looker if you want that, you get to draw 6 cards instead of 5.

Well, Looker's is pretty good... better than Copycat and better than Cynthia's, since those are both moderately unpredictable. I still like Professor Oak's New Theory better, though.

Oh yeah XD I forgot about my butt-ton of PONT cards I have from the 2 Pre-Releases I went to and the crudload of boosters I've obtained XD (I actually only have 2 Prof Oaks, 2 being Rev-Holo XD)

Hm... so 1 more roseanne, 2 bebe's and a claydol line?

EDIT: I have 4 Oaks, 2 being Rev Holo

Yes, run PONT. It's an amazing refresher. I'd run 2 more Roseanne's, personally, but that's your choice to not run a playset. I'd also run more Bebe's, but, again, it's your deck. And yes, you want the Claydol line. Maybe Uxie (Legends Awakened), too. You want a lot of draw power in your deck.

Evolution decks also may want to run the Chatot that has Mimic. Can't remember what set that is, though. :\

Hmmm, I see, but what would I need to remove though to run all those, I have only 5 slots available atm after removing the Ampharos line, 2 e energies, and 1 expert belt and putting 1 more grass energy in.

If you get another Electivire FB Level X, you could do without Palmer's Contribution. And which Land Shaymin from Plat are your running - the foil or the non-foil(non-foil has Energy Blow)?