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Friday, May 30, 2008

[Request] Gallade and Gardevoir Deck

I was really surprised to see all Google and Yahoo Search redirects to my Blog concerning a Gallade Deck or a Gardevoir Deck. So, I came up to the idea of making a post all about it for convenience.

A deck that runs under Gallade or Gardevoir is frequently called G&G or PLOX. G&G is centered on Gallade, a heavy attacker which can potentially OK almost anyone in the Battlefield. It is effectively supported by Gardevoir and its Level X since they share the same evolution line. PLOX, on the other hand, is centered on Gardevoir, using its attack to Power Lock the opponent. Although some of these decks also run a certain amount of Gallade, they do rely on locking opponent's Poké-Powers knowing that almost all decks to date run with them.

Usually, G&G or PLOX is supported by 2-2 Claydol GE and 2~4 Pachirisu GE. Why? Of course, for consistency! Gardevoir can uniquely copy your opponent's used up Supporter Card every turn. This means additional speed in draw power or card search. Pachirisu can grab up to 3 Basic Pokémon to your bench on turn 1 for one energy of any kind. Now that's a starter! Plus, Pachirisu's 2nd attack acts as an anti-Tool Card and do additional damage. Bye bye Cessation Crystals! On the other hand, Claydol's fantastic Poké-Power lets you return 2 cards to the bottom of the deck and draw up to 6 cards. Now that's refreshing! It also adds speed to the deck and returns unnecessary cards to the deck for more room for more useful cards.

The Supporters, Trainers, Tool and Stadium Cards are the very basic seen on other card decks, besides, Gardevoir can copy opponent's Supporters, remember? The only difference is "Bebe's over Celio's" because Claydol can benefit Bebe's Search. Same goes with the energies.

Now for the highlight of this post my sample decklists!


Standard PLOX (HP-On)

Pokémon (20):

1x Gardevoir Lv. X
3x Gradevoir (SW)
2x Gallade
3x Kirlia (SW)
4x Ralts (SW)

2x Claydol (GE)
2x Baltoy (GE, preferably the PK one)

3x Pachirisu (GE)

Supporters/Trainers/Stadiums (24):

4x Bebe's Search
2x Roseanne's Research
2x Professor Oak's Visit
2x Steven's Advice
4x Team Galactic's Wager

4x Rare Candy
3x Warp Point/Quick Ball
2x Night Maintenance
1x Time-Space Distortion

Energies (16):

6x Psychic Energy
4x Fighting Energy
4x Double Rainbow Energy
2x Scramble Energy



Standard G&G (HP-On)

Pokémon (20):

3x Gallade
1x Gardevoir Lv. X
2x Gardevoir (SW)
3x Kirlia (SW)
4x Ralts (SW)

2x Claydol (GE)
2x Baltoy (GE)

3x Pachirisu (GE)

Supporters/Trainers/Stadiums (24):

4x Bebe's Search
3x Roseanne's Research
3x Professor Oak's Visit
2x Steven's Advice
2x Team Galactic's Wager

4x Rare Candy
3x Warp Point/Quick Ball
2x Night Maintenance
1x Time-Space Distortion

Energies (16):

6x Fighting Energy
4x Psychic Energy
4x Double Rainbow Energy
2x Scramble Energy

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Up-coming Modified Format, DP-On?

UPDATE: Here's a link PokéBeach confirming DP-On as the next Modified Format. Click Here

Diamond and Pearl, DP: Mysterious Treasures, DP: Secret Wonders, DP: Great Encounters, and now DP: Majestic Dawn and the upcoming DP: Legend Awakens. These are the next generation Pokémon TCG Sets. These sets do created new dimensions to the TCG game play and added new twists to strategy.

The current Modified Format runs under HP-On. This season will last until Worlds on August. After our Nationals, the main big event, and the fact that I never did make it to it, the next big preparation is to tune-up the whole deck for the future format. But what is the future format?

Players over the forums, Blogs and even the wonderful RedShark application speculates that the next Modified Format will be DP-On. Well, it is indeed nice other than some of our beloved cards won't make it. Cards such as Double Rainbow Energy, Scramble Energy, Steven's Advice, Cessation Crystal and Castaway are just some of the precious cards that will be unplayable on DP-On.

Well, of course, the game changes from time to time. Who knows, maybe, DRE and Scrambles might be reprinted in DP: Legend Awakens. the only thing we can do now is to wait.

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