Fossils and Revivers

[monkeybard]

Well it revives flowers anyway. I'm an old person and I don't have many of the new cards, so hardly any of my cards are tournament legal. But I don't care about that and if you're going to review this I hope you don't either. I do battle lots of new cards at school though (Basically when I was little no one played with me and if they did it was the 'energies are silly' phase of my life so I never got a good grasp of anything. Oddly enough High School is my first time playing properly.) So a lot of my cards are from the EX series and if you don't know much of them I hope you'll take the time to thoroughly review my deck (I want to make it good even though I don't play tourney) (we are high school males so we are very competitive and emotional about our card games, however)
Pokemon x 20
1 x Meganium (EX Dragon Frontier)
2 x Bayleef (EX Dragon Frontier)
1 x Chikorita (EX Dragon Frontier)
1 x Chikorita (EX Unseen Forces [i lack more delta Chikorita])
1 x Kabutops (EX Power Keepers)
2 x Kabuto (EX Legend Makers)
1 x Armaldo (EX Power Keepers)
1 x Anorith (EX Legend Makers)
1 x Anorith (EX Sandstorm)
1 x Aerodactyl (EX Legend Makers)
2 x Eevee (EX Unseen Forces [energy evolution on these things are boss])
1 x Espeon (HS Undaunted [just kind of thrown in there, not my best decision in life but works pretty well with everything regardless])
1 x Vaporeon (EX Unseen Forces)
1 x Omastar (EX Power Keepers [can do as much damage as the one in Legend Makers but has Pull Down as well])
1 x Omanyte (EX Power Keepers)
1 x Omanyte (EX Legend Makers)
1 x Corsola (EX Unseen Forces)
Trainers x 18
2 x Mysterious Fossil HP 50 (EX Legend Makers)
1 x Strange Cave (EX Legend Makers [ i like this one 8D])
2 x Scott (EX Power Keepers)
1 x Castaway (EX Crystal Guardians)
2 x Professor Elm's Training Method (EX Unseen Forces [don't really need basics since I use fossils])
1 x Celio's Newtork (EX Crystal Guardians)
2 x Mr. Stone's Project (EX Dragon Frontier)
2 x Potion (EX Holon Phantoms, EX Crystal Guardians [same thing])
2 x Sitrus Berry (EX Unseen Forces)
1 x Buffer Piece (EX Dragon Frontier)
1 x Protective Orb (EX Unseen Forces)
1 x Professor Oak's Research (EX Dragon Frontier)
Energies x 22
1 x Double Rainbow Energy (EX Crystal Guardians)
4 x React Energy (EX Legend Makers)
6 x Water Energy
2 x Psychic Energy
9 x Fighting Energy
It really is a mess, I may take out some of the lesser trainers such as Oak and Buffer Piece for more Basic Pokémon, since I only have 5. But other than that, any thoughts people? If you even read up to this point?

 

[donavannj]

My biggest concerns are the thinness of the evolution lines, the sheer number of evolution lines (causing times where you have the wrong evolution card in your hand pretty often), and the fact that you're using 3 different types.

 

[monkeybard]

My biggest concerns are the thinness of the evolution lines, the sheer number of evolution lines (causing times where you have the wrong evolution card in your hand pretty often), and the fact that you're using 3 different types.

A combination of Scott, Professor Elm's Training Method, Celio's Network and Mr. Stone's Project generally helps out with that. Scott gets me up to 3 in any combination of Stadiums and Supporters, and from that I generally go Castaway (so I can get another Scott next turn, with a nice Sitrus Berry and Psychic Energy) Professor Elm's Training Method (My deck is composed of fossils, which are all Stage 1 or higher) and Celio's Network (to get out an Eevee or Chikorita). If I can get Omanyte (EX PK) or Anorith (EX LM) out I can use Influence to place two Stage 1 Fossils on to my bench, meaning I can save Elm's method for a Stage 2. The delta Meganium I put in there also has Evolutionary Calll, which lets me pick up to 3 Pokémon out of my deck. Eevee's Energy Evolution gets Vaporeon or Espeon out quickly and both can start using attacks the moment they evolve. The deck relies heavily on fast evolutions, fast benching, useful PokéBodies/Powers and Scott. Vileplume (HS - UL) can absolutely destroy me, but that's all I can think of. Oh, and bad draws. I hate bad draws.