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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Sea Temple Deck


Speed Spread is now a widely used strategy in Pokémon TCG. One of the most promising Pokémon that matches this strategy is Empoleon. Empoleon was seen on the Worlds 2007. Everyone was expecting to see Infernapes that event but the Fire Monkey was over shadowed by the Penguin Emperor.

This is not a surprise knowing that the entire evolution line is powerful, Piplup can do 10 damage with no energies required, Prinplup can spread 10 damage to each opponent's Pokémon for one Water Energy or snipe a damaged Pokémon with 40 damage for two Water Enegies and finally, Empoleon that can snipe 40 with 2 energies, one being Water, or do 70 damage on the defending Pokémon plus 20 bench damage in a successful coin flip. Totally an awesome "Spead and Snipe" Pokémon Line!

Now, in the release of DP:Majestic Dawn Set, a new Empoleon line is available. There are 2 new Piplups, but I do consider the one with Pecha Berry. Why? Because with one Water Energy, it can snipe 10 damage. That's a great start to put 10 on annoying Baltoys that will eventually be the every popular consistency expert, Claydol. The new Prinplup is also good but not the best. I recommend using the DP counter part. The new Empoleon is SWEET! His first attack is able to snipe 30 damage to 2 Pokémon while the second attack can do 50~100 damage depending on the bench size! Wow. The minor downside is that the second attack needs a flip, tails will spread 10 damage to your bench. But its worth it!

Now that we've seen the Emperor, I'll give you a tour to the Sea Temple. A great attraction in the temple is the Old Bronze Bell, Bronzong! Bronzong is a potential Secondary Pokémon. Why? Its Poké-Body, when active puts 1 damage counter to your opponent's Pokémon with Poké-Powers. Its great in a format ruled by Powers. Its first attack puts 1 damage counter to your opponent's Pokémon that already have damage. Wow! A cheap way to spread huh?! Its second attack can do 60 damage and gives -20 on any attacks on Bronzong next turn. Good! Bronzor, its pre-evolved form, is also solid. I can make the defending Pokémon asleep for a Colorless, or do 10 damage plus Confusion in a Heads with one Psychic Energy.

The last attraction of the Sea Temple is the Clay Doll, duh! Its Claydol, the ever popular consistency expert!

I'll be including 2 decklists in this post, one for HP-On, and one for DP-On.


RedShark


To download the Redshark Deck File (.dek), Right click in the download link and choose "Save Target as" or "Save Link as", then save it on your Redshark Directory.



Sea Temple Deck (HP-On)
[Download Redshark .DEK File Here]

Pokémon (19):

1x Empoleon Lv. X (DP/Promo)
3x Empoleon (MD)
2x Prinplup (DP)
3x Piplup Lv. 8 (MD-72)
3x Bronzong (MD)
3x Bronzor (MD)
2x Claydol (GE)
2x Baltoy (GE/PK)

Supporters/Trainers (25):

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

3x Rare Candy
4x Plus Power
2x Warp Point
2x Night Maintenance

Energies (16):

6x Water Energy
4x Psychic Energy
2x Holon Energy WP
2x Call Energy
2x Scramble Energy



RedShark


To download the Redshark Deck File (.dek), Right click in the download link and choose "Save Target as" or "Save Link as", then save it on your Redshark Directory.



Sea Temple Deck (DP-On)
[Download .DEK File Here]

Pokémon (19):

1x Empoleon Lv. X (DP/Promo)
3x Empoleon (MD)
2x Prinplup (DP)
3x Piplup Lv. 8 (MD-72)
3x Bronzong (MD)
3x Bronzor (MD)
2x Claydol (GE)
2x Baltoy (GE)

Supporters/Trainers (25):

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

3x Rare Candy
4x Plus Power
2x Warp Point
2x Night Maintenance

Energies (16):

8x Water Energy
2x Psychic Energy
4x Multi Energy
2x Call Energy

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