Gallade/Roserade Deck

RandomHype

Explosive Explosion
    • 183
    Posts
    12
    Years
    • Seen Sep 2, 2015
    The main purpose of this deck is to get Gallade and Gardevoir on the field with energy attached to my pokemon
    Roserade is an assist to get any card I want using level ball (mainly either Rare candy or Gallade)

    This deck came on a sudden thought of using gallade, and then this happened.
    It won me 2nd place of my division at the yveltal Premier event
    So far I have made a few edits to it, but I am not sure what I have done wrong or right.

    Spoiler:


    I was thinking of using more Double colorless and bicycle

    Give me suggestions

    --Notice its Giratina and the sky warrior EX
     
    Last edited:
    Hmm im not even sure how that decks works with that combination of pokemon. I understand Roserade, but what are the rest of the grass pokemon for?

    21 pokemon is a bit much. Though it looks like more based on how its written. Either way you probably need to streamline pokemon to make it more consistent.

    I also dont really know what your main strategy in the deck since you didn't say. But i assume it is to set up Gardevoir and then use Gallade to attack. With that you should probably change up the pokemon line to something like.

    4-2-2 Gallade 3 Gardevoir
    3 Mewtwo Ex
    1 Sigilyph

    Maybe a few more psychic basic pokemon.

    Next you need to lower your energy count. Drop all the Grass. Since this deck's main idea is to use Gardevoir's Ability, Psychic Mirage. So all you need is Psychic energy. Maybe just 10 energy is fine. This gives Gallade a total of 400 damage if all the energy is out.

    After that increase your supporter count.
    3 Skyla
    4 Juniper
    3 N
    3 Shauna
    is what i usually use for this sort of deck. Though you can change it.

    Trainers you need include 4 rare candy. 1 Super rod. Use more ultra ball since great balls are bad.
     
    Sorry for not putting down the purpose of the deck, I really should have stated that first.

    But yeah, its exactly as you said.

    Though, I rely on Roserade and Tropius to get the cards I need, but if I take out the Grass part, I would remove:
    All of Roserade
    Tropius
    Grass Energy
    Shaymin EX
    and Giratina EX

    --These are my card drawers and tanks

    Do you have any suggestions for good psychic type replacements? I would need a few other card drawers and Basic attackers.

    The only other card drawers I can think of are Beldum (somewhat), Dunsparce, and Plasma Durant. Mr Mime could also help
     
    Last edited:
    Really, all you need is a solid supporter base to draw cards. Typical lines for a stage 2 deck look like 3-4 Juniper, 4 N, 3-4 Skyla, 1-2 Colress, and several Tropical Beach (which, I assume, is a stadium card that you do not have access to). Bianca, Shauna, and Electrode/Delphox are decent replacements. In that case, you have lots of space free from irrelevant grass types that weaken the combo between Gardevoir and Gallade.

    Thoughts on the list, at first glance, the deck would work fine at 4 Ralts, 2 Kirlia, 3 Gallade, 2 Gardevoir, a Mewtwo EX or two, several Siligyph, and let's say a 1-1 or 2-2 Electrode line (Electrode is pretty much a luxury, but it sure helps late game). Trainers would look good at 3 Juniper, 4 N, 4 Skyla, 1 Colress, a Bianca or Shauna (consider to opt out of this card if you play 2-2 Electrode), 4 Ultra Ball, 1-2 Level Ball (it grabs Sigilyph and hints at Skyla'ing for Tropical Beach if you grab the Electrode line, but that's a stretch), 4 Rare Candy, 2-3 Silver Bangle, 1 Super Rod, and whatever other relevant cards you want to add, like Professor's Letter, Energy Retrieval, Switch, Escape Rope, Pokemon Fan Club, etc..

    Energy look fine at 10 or so psychic energy and anywhere from 2-4 Double Colorless Energy. I'd lean to having more double colorless in the first build because I think that the Gardevoir would be a bit slow coming out and having extra energy to use is nice.

    Any questions on the list, playing the deck, etc., feel free to ask. I hope I could be of some help!
     
    I guess you are right about using electrode, an automatic bicycle, would be nice.
    I was considering adding training room when it came out in august, making Gallade Seem nearly as overpowered as an EX

    But should I throw in miltank in there? its a great scapegoat when only gardevoir is left on the bench. Although 80 damage still isn't much...
     
    Miltank does pretty well. It does more than you might think. 80 + muscle band or silver bangle is 100-110 damage. All for 1 energy, no evolutions, and its a basic to help you mulligan less. Granted its not the greatest for this deck, but it still can help. An attacker you can set up in a single turn, that only gives 1 prize is pretty good in any deck.

    Electrode could possibly help late game as they said. For some reason i never find them as useful anymore. My i run tend to be really fast and going to grab electrode with level ball or something is usually just a waste for me and ends up costing me more than helping.. But being safe from N to 1 is a great feeling.
     
    Okay, I have edited the deck and tested it online, and oh boy, it is creaming.
    Got any last suggestions?
    I maybe could fit in random receiver, more sigilyph, more energy retrieval, but I would need an idea of what to cut down on

    4-2-3 Gallade + 2 Gardevoir
    1 Miltank
    1 Meloetta
    1 sigilyph
    2 Mewtwo EX

    1 energy retrieval
    2 Super rod
    2 level ball
    3 ultra ball
    2 Professor's letter
    2 switch
    2 silver bangle
    4 Rare Candy

    2 Pokemon fan club
    1 Colress
    2 N
    3 Skyla
    4 Professor Juniper

    10 psychic energy
    4 Double Colorless
     
    Last edited:
    20 wins no losses so far... wow
    Edit Darn I finally lost, I need to find a way to counter these annoying darkrai/Yveltal/Garbador Decks. Any Ideas?


    I only have a few cards I need to buy IRL, but somehow

    2 level balls
    1 promo Mewtwo EX
    2 Junipers
    2 super rod
    3 Double colorless
    1 miltank (maybe 2)
    2 more rare candy
    1 Silver bangle
    and 1 Colress

    brings me to a total of about $26.75

    any Ideas of where to get these things cheap?
    (I checked troll and toad, ebay, and my local pokemon card seller)
     
    Last edited:
    Yveltal and Mewtwo can compete head-to-head pretty well, but Sigilyph is pretty good against it, too. A lot of Yveltal Darkrai decks have traded out the Garbodor for Raichu, and both can fight Sigilpyh pretty easily. Tool Scrapper or Startling Megaphone help beat the Garbodor decks, and I guess just hitting Raichu beats Raichu.

    As for the cards that you want to buy, one Super Rod is plenty for most decks. Getting playsets (4 copies) of your Juniper (you should get Professor Sycamore, because Juniper will "rotate out of", which means will be banned because it's too old, the legal competitive format sooner than Sycamore and they do the same thing), N, and Rare Candy, Double Colorless Energy, Ultra Ball, and other staples. One Super Rod is plenty, as is one Professor's Letter. Troll and Toad sometimes has good prices, eBay is pretty competitive, TCGPlayer has lots of listings (at least for Magic the Gathering), and local shops sometimes take a while to update prices and some people put things in the wrong bins so learn your card prices and take advantage of that.

    Multiple Sigilyph is probably advantageous to this deck, and two Mewtwo looks good. What you're shopping for looks fair, though you may want to go to a sanctioned Pokemon league and do some careful trading to get your staples.
     
    FurretFTW!!1! said:
    What you're shopping for looks fair, though you may want to go to a sanctioned Pokemon league and do some careful trading to get your staples.
    Click to expand...

    :3c I've had some excessively bad and good trades from leagues...

    It all started here
    Mega venasaur for PLB deluge blastoise, LTR full art Reshriam, and a full art Thunderus (~$8.00 total)

    full art Thunderus for a Suicune (.75 card)
    Full art Reshriam for a professor's letter, and two meloettas

    But some lunatic traded me about 10.00 worth of cards for the PLB deluge blastoise (whole 4-3-2 Gardevoir evolution, 2 blend energy, bicycle, etc...)

    My Collection of actual cards isn't that good really. Pulling 9 packs only to find one Holofoil Rare, No one is really looking at my cards for trade
     
    You must log in or register to reply here.
    Back
    Top