Dark Trance - SF - Deck

Hello everybody !!! I am back now so I will talk about my current deck also one of the best decks in the format (maybe the best), I am sure that if you have played Pokemon in the last 3 months you have heard a lot about this deck because of its power and good match ups against almost every deck.
Yep, I am talking about Hydreigon/Darkrai.
I've played this deck for almost 4 weeks and I like it so much because you can play almost every tech in this deck.
So here is my list:

Pokemon (15) 

3 -1 - 3 Hydreigon (Dark Trance)
3 Darkrai EX
3 Sableye
1 Shaymin EX
1 Mewtwo EX

T/S/S (33)

3 Rare Candy
4 Dark Patch
3 Max Potion
4 Pokemon Catcher
3 Ultra Ball
1 Level Ball
1 Computer Search
2 Eviolite
1 Tool Scrapper
2 Random Receiver
4 N
3 Juniper
2 Skyla

Energy (12)

8 Dark Energy
4 Blend PDGF

Techs

1 Giratina EX (Meta Gartaria)
1 Reshiram EX (For Mirror Match)
1+ Tool Scrapper (Garbodor Meta)

Currently I play this list because in my community almost every player plays one or two Fighting Pokemons to count Darkrai Variants, also because nobody plays a competitive Gartaria Deck so I don't need Giratina EX, thats why I play 2x Eviolites too.
This deck has made it well in this four weeks with me, the problem is that it's TOO expensive. ( 350$ +)

Well, lets explain how this deck works, Hydreigon`s Ability let you move your dark energy alll over the field,  the main goal in this deck is to have T2 Darkrai (easy with Hydreigons Ability). With this ability, when your opponent makes a lot of damage to your Darkrai  you move the energies and heal it with Max Potion, then move the energies again and attack. And when you don't have more Max Potions  move Sableye and Junk Hunt the Max Potions again.

I hope you enjoyed this entry, have a nice week, Cya.

Durant is back! – SF – Deck

Hello everybody! I am Perupopo, and today I am going to make my fourth entry to this blog, yesterday the B & W: Dragon Exalted set was released and in two weeks the HGSS set will be banned, so a lot of decks would be stronger and others would be weak. A deck that everybody thought that would be weak was Durant because of the ban of some cards like Special Metal Energy, Pichu and POTM. Also with the apparition of Heatmor in B & W: Dark Explorers a lot of people (including me) thought that this deck would disappear, but when I saw the B & W: Dragon Exalted Trainer Scans soon I realized that this deck would be very good again, so like a week ago I print some of the cards of this set, like Giant Cape (20HP+) and Rescue Scarf (Almost the same than Special Metal Energy) and I started testing this deck, let me tell you that this deck is very good again and until now, the prices are as cheap as they used to be the last week.

 
In the Pokémon TCG current format exist two ways to win a game, taking the six prices or making your opponent deck out.
This deck makes you win by making your opponent losing all the cars in his or her deck.
This deck only uses one Pokémon, Durant, this ant devours the opponent deck, every turn depending in the quantity of Durants in play you made your opponent discard one card from his deck for each Durant in play.
This attack only uses one metal energy, so you don't need a lot of energy cards, and with that space you will put a lot of trainers that give you turns to Devour and to protect your little Durants.
If you got 4 Durants in T1 would be very difficult to lose the game.
I like to play this deck with Hammers, so you won't let your opponent play, also with 4x Catcher so you would have a lot of turns to attack and make your opponent deck out.

 

 
Deck List:
Pokémon (4)

4x Durant (Noble Victories)

Energy (8)

8x Metal Energy 

Trainer (48)

4x Pokémon Catcher
4x Level Ball
4x Eviolite
2x Giant Cape
4x Rescue Scarf
4x Revive
2x Energy Retrieval
4x Cheren
3x N
4x Crushing Hammer
4x Professor Juniper
2x Enhanced Hammer
2x Switch
4x Recycle
1x Super Scoop Up

 
PROS:
If you get 4 Durants in T1 or T2 is almost impossible to lose.
Cheap deck. (For now)
Can win against every Stage-2 deck.
Can break almost every strategy because you make your opponent discard from his deck.
It is a very funny deck.

 
COUNTS:
If one or more of your Durants is in the Prize Cards the game would be very difficult to win.
You will lose against almost every Fast Item Lock decks, like Gothitelle.
Very difficult to play.
You have to be very fast while playing it.
Exists one card that kills this deck, Heatmor, the ant eater.

 
That's all for today, I hope you liked it. Cya!
Perupopo

FlipTini Control – SF – Deck

Hello friends, I'm Perupopo and today I'm going to made my third entry for The Dark Deck, today I want to talk about a deck that I prepare for a friend, this deck is very cheap (almost 15 dollars for everything) but it is very competitive and very good. It controls almost every deck in the format because of the Special Conditions that it uses (Paralyze, Confusion and Poison). This deck uses as Attacker the Lilligant from Emerging Powers, this Lilligant with one energy hits 20 and you flip a coin, if it is head, your opponent is paralyzed and poisoned, but if it is tail, your opponent is confused. 

"Bahh! Another Luck Deck, only for lucky people", yes it is a luck deck, but… you use my friend, Victini, this little friend from Noble Victories let you flip again a coin if you don't like the first flip, so it is very difficult to get two tails.

But even if you get both tails your opponent is still confused and has to throw the coin to attack.

With this deck is almost impossible to let your opponent do something, because you hit first with your Lilligant, then when the Opponent Pokemon is with 100HP or less, appears our Virizon (Emerging Powers) to hit 100 and receive your opponents next hit. If your Virizon dies your Lilligant goes out and fight, but if your Virizon survive you change it with your Lilligant, with no retreat cost because of the Skyarrow Bridge. 

Then you make the same combo again and again until you win.
In this deck you play Carnivine (from Dark Explorers) in the case you are playing against a Stage-2 Deck, like Reshiboar, Gothitelle, Empoleon, Krookodino, etc. This basic Pokémon make your opponent switch his Pokémon with another Pokémon and his second attack make your opponents Pokémon go to his hand with everything attached to it.

The Deck List:

Pokémon (18)

4 Petilil (Emerging Power)
4 Lilligant (Emerging Power)
4 Virizion (Emerging Power)
3 Victini (Noble Victories)
3 Carnivine (Dark Explorers)

Energy (12)

 12 Grass Energy

Trainers (30)

4 Level Ball
4 Pokémon Communication
4 Cheren
4 Skyarrow Bridge
2 Ultra Ball
4 N
2 Switch
2 Energy Retrieval
2 Revive
2 Professor Juniper

 
This was the deck, but if you want to spend a little more you can play also 2 Pokemon Catcher, changing them in the 2x Professor Juniper.

 
Game Tests:  
     Against ReshiBoar (my friend played the deck, but I will talk in first person)  

     First turn, I played my Petilil and had my Victini in the bench, so I paralyzed his Reshiram. T2 I evolved   and played my Virizion, I Paralyzed him again, T3 same combo, Virizion with two energy in bench, T4 Skyarrow bridge played, he started to prepare another Reshiram in the bench. My Virizion went out and killed his Reshiram, he put his Reshiram and hit me 40 (I hate weakness). T6 I played Switch, and started hitting the Reshiram with Lilligant.

Easy game, he only killed two Virizions. GG

1 – 0

Second game, was almost the same, only difference that he played 2 Pokemon Catchers, but I won again.

He killed two Virizions.

2 – 0  

Against Zekrom-Reuniclus

T1, I knew this would be a very large game, because he would move the damage counters from the Zekrom every turn so I won't have the opportunity to give a chance to OHKO to my Virizion. I started paralyzing him with my Petilil, T2 he had his Reuniclus set with a Zekrom with 2 energys. The first turns were very boring; in T8 I had my Virizion set with 3 energies, my 2 Lilligant in bench, 1 Carnivine and 1 Victini. I got only 2 prize cards, he got one. I started playing the control, and my FlipTini started making his job. I won in like T16. Easy game, but very boring.

3 – 0 

He started, first turn he started with DCE and Zekrom, hit 20, my turn Petilil + FlipTini, easy paralyzing in T1, Lilligant in T2, Virizion + Skyarrow Bridge in T3, just wait until win, T14 Game Over.

4 – 0

 

Very good deck, very cheap also, just 15$ for all the deck, prices from trollandtoad.com, I hope you like it and tell me how you would play this deck with other cards in the commentaries.

Good bye friends.

Perupopo

Black and White 6: Dragon Exalted Review

Hello friends! I am Perupopo and this is my second entry for The Dark Deck, I am so happy that you liked the first entry that's why I will try to made at least 3 entries each week. Well, as you know today is the release for the Black and White 6: Dragon Exalted, so today I'm going to talk about the cards that will be released in this expansion. 

First we will see the brand new kind of Pokemon, the Dragons. This Dragons are kind of strange and difficult to play because of the kind of energy they use, almost every dragon uses 2 kinds of energy, for example Giratina- EX uses dark and grass energy to attack and Rayquaza uses Fire and Lighting Energy to attack, so it would be kind of difficult to play a lot of Dragons in the same deck, but also in this expansion were released two special energy cards, Blind Energy(Psychic, Fire, Grass, Dark) and Blind Energy (Lighting, Fight, Metal and Water) that is like a Prism Energy that can be used for that kinds of energy.

The supporter cards for this kind of decks are Altaria (gives you a bonus +20 for the attack of the Dragons), Gabite (allows you to call a Dragon to your bench every turn) and Hydreigon (allows you to move Dark Energy in your Pokemons)
Also these Dragons are only weak against other Dragons.

Second, in this expansion appear 4 very useful Trainer Cards: Giant Cape (+ 20HP), Rescue Scarf (when the Pokemon is killed it goes to the Hand and not to the discard pile), Devolution Spray (devolve the last evolution of one of you Pokemons) and Tool Scrapper (breaks two tools).
When I first seen this scans, I thought : "Wow, when this expansion would be released, HGSS: Heart and Gold would be banned so bye to Vileplume and bye to Special Metal Energy, so some decks would be out like Durant, but with this cards (Rescue Scarf and Giant Cape) it would be good again".
I have tested these cards in the Durant deck and let me tell you that are AMAZING in this deck; also I am going to talk about the Giant Cape in other decks later.
 Also the Tool Scrapper can help you against some decks like Durant or Engineers.

Third, in this expansion appeared some Fire Cards VERY powerful like Ho-Oh – EX, Magmortar (maybe the first censored card) and Ninetales.
Ho-Oh EX the phoenix Pokemon allows you to Flip a coin every turn when it is in the discard pile and come back to the Bench with three energy from your discard pile. Magmortar hits 40 with one energy and reduces in 30 the damage that he would receive in the next turn. Ninetales attacks 20 plus 30 for every special condition in the defending Pokemon, just with one energy!

Also in this expansion appeared some very powerful Lighting Pokemon, like Ampharos (As long as this Pokemon is your active Pokemon every time your opponent puts and energy in any of his Pokemon, put 3 damage counters in that Pokemon. Also hits 70), Emolga (calls two basic pokemons).

In this expansion, there are some good choices for grass decks, because of the Nincada – Ninjask – Shedinja (it is psychic but comes with the Ninjask). Because this pokemons made loads of damage without a lot of energy, like Ninjask that Hits 60 with 2 energy or Shedinja that puts 3 damage counters on the Pokemons and only uses one psychic energy and when it is killed your opponent don't get any prize card.
Also appeared one card that is very good if you know how to use it and here in my Town would be the Anti-Meta for long, Garbodor, his Ability made the other Abilities disappear even if they are activated in the Hand or in the Discard Pile (like Ho-Oh Ex one).

Last but not least, in this expansion appear 6 Pokemon EX: Ho-Oh EX, Mew EX (copy one attack), Rayquaza EX (the heart of the Dragon deck), Registeel EX (first metal EX – pokemon), Giratina EX (another EX Dragon) and Terrakion EX (very violent).

Oh I forgot, there are 3 Stage-2 Pokemons that are Re-Edited in this expansion, Krookodile (from Dark Explorers), Serperior and Reuniclus.
This expansion is very good and in almost every booster you buy you would be happy because in this expansion are very good cards.
You can find all the scans for this expansion in http://pokebeach.com/2012/07/dragons-exalted-scans.

I hope you like this second entry for The Dark Deck, thank you, and if there are some miss typing errors, my apologize, English isn't my Native Language so I am doing the best I can.
Perupopo

Krookodino – SF - Deck

Yesterday, with some friends we decided to open an Emerging Powers booster box to pull some cards like Bianca, Pokemon Catcher and Max Potion, but we decided to play with the cards that we pulled, like an Sneek Peak. When we made our decks we discovered a card that we ignored, Audino, this Pokemon is a very powerful (also ignored) assassin, it OHKO some Beartics and Tornadus in our Sneek Peak so we started thinking in which decks it could play.
After some thinking I realized that the Krookodile from Dark Explorers is a very strong card in mid and late game so it needs a very offensive Pokémon starting on T1 that's were our powerful Audino joins the fun.
With some other supporter cards like Sableye and Recycle, this Audino can be magic and start taking prizes in T2 while the Krookodile is getting ready to start the real fight with his second attack, Bombast.
The advantage of this deck is that it is VERY offensive, starting making a lot of damage even in T1 also some Sableyes plus Recycles plus Dark Patch make sure you won't lose any energy so you can get ready two or three Krookodile in your bench so when the Audino has taken some Prize Cards the Krookodile can came out and start making loads of damage. Also it's very cheap because you don't need Darkrai in this deck.
Other advantage is that you can play Double Colorless Energy and if you opponent uses a Hammer or kills your Audino you can get it back with you Recycle and then get back you Recycle with your Sableye, also you can play this energy in Krookodile too.
The list card for this deck is the next:
Pokémons (16)

• 4 Audino (Emerging Powers)
• 4 – 2 – 4 Krookodile-Krokorok-Sandile (Dark Explorers)
• 2 Sableye (Dark Explorers)
  
   

Energy Cards (14)

• 4 Double Colorless Energy
• 10 Dark Energy

Trainers (30)

• 4 Recycle
• 4 Dark Patch
• 4 Dark Claw
• 2 Switch (keep your Krookodile out of the fight until it is ready in case your opponent uses Pokemon Catcher)
• 4 Heavy Ball (Krookodile and Krokorok have 3 in retreat cost)
• 4 Rare candy
• 4 Level Ball
• 4 Cheren

Game test:

Against ReshiBoar

I started with an Audino, a Sandile and a Sableye with a Krookodile in my hand. First turn I made 40 damage (good luck), he didn't play any energy so I was lucky, T2 I was ready with my Audino with 2 energy and a Krokorok in the bench I made 40 more damage and KO his Pokemon, this was an easy game because when he played his Reshiboar he was in like T8 and my Audino was with 3 dark energy and 2 Double Colorless energy and 2 Krookodile in the bench with 2 prizes left.

1 - 0

Second game I was even more lucky cause I got one Audino , two double colorless energy, Krookodile, rare candy, cheren and 2 Sandile so in T1 I made 80 damage and OHKO his Plusle, second turn I got another double energy in the Cheren's draw and a Sableye so, it was almost won, I attacked and hitted 120 to his Reshiboar almost OHKO in T2!!!!, T3 I started preparing the Krookodile to fight. In T4 I got my 3rd prize car, in T5 the 4th prize card. In his T6 he killed my Audino and placed his Reshiboar, but Krookodile with 4 prize card taken and dark claw is very aggressive and in T7 the game was over.

2 – 0

Against Durant

He started, with 3 Durants, I lost 2 Krookodiles in first turn :S, but I got one back with Recycle+ Cheren in the same turn, I placed my Audino with 1 DCE (I got tired of typing Double Colorless energy all the time) but my Audino only made 40 damage to his little Durant, T2 he placed another Durant and my headache started, I couldn't face 4 Durants in T2.

2 – 1

My turn to start, Audino with dark energy made 40 damage (luckily) to his Durant, he placed 1 Durant in bench, T2 I Killed one Durant, T3 I killed the second, no more Pokémons in bench. I won.

3 – 1

He started with 2 Durant, and I lost 2 Audinos, I placed an Audino with DCE and made 0 damage in the first turn, he placed another Durant and made me lost the last Audino and Cheren. T2 I killed 1 Durant, T3 I killed another, T4 another, T5 another, T6 … another and for last T7 I killed the last Durant. I was like 8 cars left to deckout. Luckily I realized that I cant play any pokemon but Audino againt this deck. My Audino finished this game with 3 DCE and 3 Dark energy.

4 – 1

Thank you for reading this first publication in The Dark Deck I hope you like it, cya.

Perupopo