Blaziken FB: The Most Amazing SP Pokemon Ever

I had 9 in here originally (1 lighting, which was a horrible play), but 10 is plenty. I’ve had I think 2 energy misses since I started playing the deck, which is perfectly fine to me. You have 2 energy recovery cards as well, so you shouldn’t have any worries about the energy.

I had 9 in here originally (1 lighting, which was a horrible play), but 10 is plenty. I’ve had I think 2 energy misses since I started playing the deck, which is perfectly fine to me. You have 2 energy recovery cards as well, so you shouldn’t have any worries about the energy.

Claydol isn’t absolutely nessicary for the deck to work, and 2-2 is enough to hit it with the amount of search you have to find it (2 uxie+4 roseanne’s+2 bebe’s+3 cyrus (to get missing part with bebe’s/rr)+1 luxury ball). And call energy really messes with your energy count+t1 attacking. There is really nothing but baltoy to call energy for, as you have plenty of outs to get basics (4 rosey+2 bebe’s+1 luxury+3 cyrus+3 radar+2 uxie).

Claydol isn’t absolutely nessicary for the deck to work, and 2-2 is enough to hit it with the amount of search you have to find it (2 uxie+4 roseanne’s+2 bebe’s+3 cyrus (to get missing part with bebe’s/rr)+1 luxury ball). And call energy really messes with your energy count+t1 attacking. There is really nothing but baltoy to call energy for, as you have plenty of outs to get basics (4 rosey+2 bebe’s+1 luxury+3 cyrus+3 radar+2 uxie).

3-3 dol is a huge undertake for mostly any deck, and usually that means you sacrifice your uxie count or something else. As for water pokemon, yeah they easily ko blaze, but if blaze is trashing the basics and luxray is trashing the stage 2 for 1 energy while they either take more than one or claydol to run, then who cares? 60 for 1 t1 IS the big deal here, and allows you to donk a water deck before they can even get of the ground (both blaze and luxray have easy potential for this, but blaze does it no matter where that water guy is). Focusing on luxray means you lose the t1 burn switch, which absolutely messes up the opponet first turn (send up there benched baltoy, now they either have to warp out or waste thier call on it, sacing the toy in the process). Like I said before about plus power, its a dropped card (meaning you get alot more out of your uxie than most other cards) and allows you to OHKO nearly any big guy with a few and a crobat/turn drop. If I dropped plus power for call, then I have 14 energy (way to many) and make blaze just a slight upgrade from luxray, rather than the OHKO that he is. Blaze is so good because he can easily nab prizes from the bench via the GOW attack/power of luxray, and from the active via plus power/crobat drops on the opponet. Yes I use luxray quite often as an attack, since he is insanely good, but the 30 backlash is not a good thing to have early game (later on I do it freely to my crobats/claydol/uxie, but early game its nearly suicidal to do it too often).

3-3 dol is a huge undertake for mostly any deck, and usually that means you sacrifice your uxie count or something else. As for water pokemon, yeah they easily ko blaze, but if blaze is trashing the basics and luxray is trashing the stage 2 for 1 energy while they either take more than one or claydol to run, then who cares? 60 for 1 t1 IS the big deal here, and allows you to donk a water deck before they can even get of the ground (both blaze and luxray have easy potential for this, but blaze does it no matter where that water guy is). Focusing on luxray means you lose the t1 burn switch, which absolutely messes up the opponet first turn (send up there benched baltoy, now they either have to warp out or waste thier call on it, sacing the toy in the process). Like I said before about plus power, its a dropped card (meaning you get alot more out of your uxie than most other cards) and allows you to OHKO nearly any big guy with a few and a crobat/turn drop. If I dropped plus power for call, then I have 14 energy (way to many) and make blaze just a slight upgrade from luxray, rather than the OHKO that he is. Blaze is so good because he can easily nab prizes from the bench via the GOW attack/power of luxray, and from the active via plus power/crobat drops on the opponet. Yes I use luxray quite often as an attack, since he is insanely good, but the 30 backlash is not a good thing to have early game (later on I do it freely to my crobats/claydol/uxie, but early game its nearly suicidal to do it too often).

3 Sp radar is sick becuase you know that even if you prize one, you still have 2 to cyrus/draw into. The same thing with premier ball. I don’t like the idea of dropping your non-supporter search count to add to your supporter draw. Cyrus is a solid card (which is why I run 3 now instead of 2), but its basically a different tom hanks, which you never run 4 of. Yes cyrus has more benifits, but I don’t think those benifits warrant a 4th copy.

3 Sp radar is sick becuase you know that even if you prize one, you still have 2 to cyrus/draw into. The same thing with premier ball. I don’t like the idea of dropping your non-supporter search count to add to your supporter draw. Cyrus is a solid card (which is why I run 3 now instead of 2), but its basically a different tom hanks, which you never run 4 of. Yes cyrus has more benifits, but I don’t think those benifits warrant a 4th copy.

I disagree 100%. Power spray is unuseable durning your turn, meaning it sits there and clogs up your hand. If you claydol it away, its pretty counter-productive. While searchable via cyrus, it also tips off that you have one in hand (can backfire against gengar, but can also be used to think that a poltergist (sp) will hit for huge damage. Q has been amazing early game, ensuring an easy way to get that t1 blaze/luxray, but also lets you escape with an active claydol if you don’t hit a warp point and also ups the donk count (though 30 hp means it’ll get donked as well). I don’t know why you would drop g in this deck, since I run only 1. You can’t expect gengar/champ to just die off, and it protects your dol from mirror blaze. Both unowns are bad starts, but I don’t think its wise to toss either one out of this deck (mostly g, but Q I find to be a great searchable free retreat in any sp deck). Uxie lvl X is a decent attacker, but I usually only play it as a searchable draw card, since I run 2 uxie anyways, plus the Q to get it out of there after I level up. If I did drop Q, I would probably toss uxie x, but its just another type to hit for weakness (saving pps/bats). I would never consider droping 2 premier balls in this deck. Yes you have TSD, Aaron’s, and NM to grab back your level X, but thats only a 3 time shot. Also you can use them as the 4th/5th sp radar, but only on your 3(2) level Xs. As for your suggestions…

I already talked about the 4th cyrus. Some may like it, I don’t. I would maybe do 3 cyrus, 1 Vs seeker, but thats about it.
I would love the cynthia’s in here, but I’m pretty sold on the list I have right now. The additinal draw would be welcome, and I could see me tossing uxie X (espicially if I can’t get one…:/) for it, but thats about it.
4 Sp radar sounds solid, but I could only see me doing this if I drop a crobat, which is a possiblity (though 3 has been extreemely effective).
Power spray I already discussed. I just see it as a cute little trick, but it only realiistically works against uxie, as claydol gets to use his power again. You could spray then ko him with lux/blaze combo next turn, but I’d rather let them get the additional draw in order to ensure everything is playable at all times.
I’ve never liked bronzong. Period. He’s a nice card for alot of people, but I don’t feel he’s worth the bench space to let you keep an energy in play. I’ve had about 4 times where he would have been useful, but usually you never poketurn your blaze, who is the guy who usually has the energy.
Skuntank? I don’t have any stadiums….lol
I assume that you mean the dp one, as you suggested droping the g. 60(70) for 1 is great, but that would require a deck makeover. lol. If you mean the promo, I could see it going in here, but I don’t know what I would drop for it (maybe a crobat again, but not sure).
3-1 luxray just doesn’t appeal to me. I could see lists doing it, but with the amount of recovery you have, that extra luxray is just claydol bait.

I’m sorry for the slang in the post. Just don’t have much time. Besides those fixes above, I would like to see a 3rd bebe’s in here, as well as the possible chatot, but I don’t think the deck needs alot in terms of the pokemon department. So far in testing, blaze and luxray have been all that decks can handle.

I disagree 100%. Power spray is unuseable durning your turn, meaning it sits there and clogs up your hand. If you claydol it away, its pretty counter-productive. While searchable via cyrus, it also tips off that you have one in hand (can backfire against gengar, but can also be used to think that a poltergist (sp) will hit for huge damage. Q has been amazing early game, ensuring an easy way to get that t1 blaze/luxray, but also lets you escape with an active claydol if you don’t hit a warp point and also ups the donk count (though 30 hp means it’ll get donked as well). I don’t know why you would drop g in this deck, since I run only 1. You can’t expect gengar/champ to just die off, and it protects your dol from mirror blaze. Both unowns are bad starts, but I don’t think its wise to toss either one out of this deck (mostly g, but Q I find to be a great searchable free retreat in any sp deck). Uxie lvl X is a decent attacker, but I usually only play it as a searchable draw card, since I run 2 uxie anyways, plus the Q to get it out of there after I level up. If I did drop Q, I would probably toss uxie x, but its just another type to hit for weakness (saving pps/bats). I would never consider droping 2 premier balls in this deck. Yes you have TSD, Aaron’s, and NM to grab back your level X, but thats only a 3 time shot. Also you can use them as the 4th/5th sp radar, but only on your 3(2) level Xs. As for your suggestions…

I already talked about the 4th cyrus. Some may like it, I don’t. I would maybe do 3 cyrus, 1 Vs seeker, but thats about it.
I would love the cynthia’s in here, but I’m pretty sold on the list I have right now. The additinal draw would be welcome, and I could see me tossing uxie X (espicially if I can’t get one…:/) for it, but thats about it.
4 Sp radar sounds solid, but I could only see me doing this if I drop a crobat, which is a possiblity (though 3 has been extreemely effective).
Power spray I already discussed. I just see it as a cute little trick, but it only realiistically works against uxie, as claydol gets to use his power again. You could spray then ko him with lux/blaze combo next turn, but I’d rather let them get the additional draw in order to ensure everything is playable at all times.
I’ve never liked bronzong. Period. He’s a nice card for alot of people, but I don’t feel he’s worth the bench space to let you keep an energy in play. I’ve had about 4 times where he would have been useful, but usually you never poketurn your blaze, who is the guy who usually has the energy.
Skuntank? I don’t have any stadiums….lol
I assume that you mean the dp one, as you suggested droping the g. 60(70) for 1 is great, but that would require a deck makeover. lol. If you mean the promo, I could see it going in here, but I don’t know what I would drop for it (maybe a crobat again, but not sure).
3-1 luxray just doesn’t appeal to me. I could see lists doing it, but with the amount of recovery you have, that extra luxray is just claydol bait.

I’m sorry for the slang in the post. Just don’t have much time. Besides those fixes above, I would like to see a 3rd bebe’s in here, as well as the possible chatot, but I don’t think the deck needs alot in terms of the pokemon department. So far in testing, blaze and luxray have been all that decks can handle.

lol thanks. As for azelf, I find it be alot like many of the other cards mentioned. Although it is probably needed on paper, even if you prize both, the odds of you drawing into it within the first 3 prizes are 33%, 40%, and then 50% respectively, which I don’t have time to math out exactly (I think its around 78% but just guessing really). The normal blaziken, luxray, and uxie level X should be enough to draw into 3 prizes without falling too far behind. In all honesty, I’ve prize luxray lvl X in alot of games, but I’ve never really needed it because I’ve either smoked the opponet or got wrecked way too fast. I think I’ve prized blaze once, and that game I got t2ed, so I’m not sure what usually happens if I do prize it.

lol thanks. As for azelf, I find it be alot like many of the other cards mentioned. Although it is probably needed on paper, even if you prize both, the odds of you drawing into it within the first 3 prizes are 33%, 40%, and then 50% respectively, which I don’t have time to math out exactly (I think its around 78% but just guessing really). The normal blaziken, luxray, and uxie level X should be enough to draw into 3 prizes without falling too far behind. In all honesty, I’ve prize luxray lvl X in alot of games, but I’ve never really needed it because I’ve either smoked the opponet or got wrecked way too fast. I think I’ve prized blaze once, and that game I got t2ed, so I’m not sure what usually happens if I do prize it.

I think you’re right, VS Seeker seems incredible in SP decks. It honestly might eliminate the need for Claydol.

And plus power doesn’t? Warp point doesn’t? Again, it’s not droppable and there is not enough to stop where they can’t recover from that stoppage (turn luxray to use it again, same with crobat, drop a second mespirit, etc.). As for vs seeker, you can’t search it out and in order for it to be effective at all, you need to have used the supporter you want to use. Its completely unreliable and there is no way to constantly fit it into decks. Dropping claydol for it is absolutely insane and will result in more donks, less draw, and a less smoother (ew) deck. There is no draw in this format. Period. Claydol allows you to save your bebe’s for later turns by letting you draw into the pokemon you need. VS seeker makes you waste your supporter drop to get your cards. If you don’t run claydol, what do you do for draw? People didn’t run it before, save for when you played a tech briney with pidgeot, so why would you play it now, when there is NO draw outside of cynthia’s (relying on drawing into a supporter nabbing card after you burned your supporter and lost a pokemon is not a good idea), rowan (makes some sense here, since you can keep it and then use rowan again next turn, but you’re only netting 4 new cards), claydol (which you’re tossing out), uxie/x (one time use), and the random draw 2/3 cards (which don’t see play for a reason: They’re terrible). I honestly don’t see why you would even want vs seeker in here. Using cyrus multiple times is okay, but without claydol, you’re going to net LESS sp cards over time, rather than more. Bebe’s is only nessicary in an sp deck to get your claydol, so if you don’t play it, then you won’t play bebe’s (or only a few at the most). Flint’s is a resonable tech that you may want to use multiple times, so I see the use here (but to play multiple flints and multiple vs seekers, which would be nessicary to really use this, without using claydol, is asking for a beatnig). Roseanne’s is a good pokemon search, but you DON’T need to use 4. You run 7 energy grabbers, so you shouldn’t be concerned about energy. As for basics, you run 4 roseanne’s, 3-4 sp radar, and a luxury ball. You can’t keep dropping uxies (who may or may not be getting sprayed as you drop them) and there is no draw in this format to support this card. Nobody played it when copy cat and steven’s were around. It is a decent card, but unless you’re really afriad/unprepared for a dying claydol here or there, there is no need to stack your deck full of a card that can easily backfire. Baltoy can be used as a draw card. VS seeker really can’t in this format. That’s sad. :/

And plus power doesn’t? Warp point doesn’t? Again, it’s not droppable and there is not enough to stop where they can’t recover from that stoppage (turn luxray to use it again, same with crobat, drop a second mespirit, etc.). As for vs seeker, you can’t search it out and in order for it to be effective at all, you need to have used the supporter you want to use. Its completely unreliable and there is no way to constantly fit it into decks. Dropping claydol for it is absolutely insane and will result in more donks, less draw, and a less smoother (ew) deck. There is no draw in this format. Period. Claydol allows you to save your bebe’s for later turns by letting you draw into the pokemon you need. VS seeker makes you waste your supporter drop to get your cards. If you don’t run claydol, what do you do for draw? People didn’t run it before, save for when you played a tech briney with pidgeot, so why would you play it now, when there is NO draw outside of cynthia’s (relying on drawing into a supporter nabbing card after you burned your supporter and lost a pokemon is not a good idea), rowan (makes some sense here, since you can keep it and then use rowan again next turn, but you’re only netting 4 new cards), claydol (which you’re tossing out), uxie/x (one time use), and the random draw 2/3 cards (which don’t see play for a reason: They’re terrible). I honestly don’t see why you would even want vs seeker in here. Using cyrus multiple times is okay, but without claydol, you’re going to net LESS sp cards over time, rather than more. Bebe’s is only nessicary in an sp deck to get your claydol, so if you don’t play it, then you won’t play bebe’s (or only a few at the most). Flint’s is a resonable tech that you may want to use multiple times, so I see the use here (but to play multiple flints and multiple vs seekers, which would be nessicary to really use this, without using claydol, is asking for a beatnig). Roseanne’s is a good pokemon search, but you DON’T need to use 4. You run 7 energy grabbers, so you shouldn’t be concerned about energy. As for basics, you run 4 roseanne’s, 3-4 sp radar, and a luxury ball. You can’t keep dropping uxies (who may or may not be getting sprayed as you drop them) and there is no draw in this format to support this card. Nobody played it when copy cat and steven’s were around. It is a decent card, but unless you’re really afriad/unprepared for a dying claydol here or there, there is no need to stack your deck full of a card that can easily backfire. Baltoy can be used as a draw card. VS seeker really can’t in this format. That’s sad. :/

X_X I kinda did, though not directly. “Blaze’s first attack stops Claydol in its tracks and unless they Unown G or Unown Q it before you attack it with Luring Flame (or if they have a Switch or Warp Point in hand), they will be stuck until it gets OHKOed next turn because of your Pokemon Body plus 30 damage.” Unless they td the warp, its going to most likely be stuck there. Same thing with any tech pokemon. The first attack makes blaziken truely a beast, as you can avoid using the big blast against a fattie and go after easy prizes instead, if you must. Its also great early game and I’m going to look into what other pokemon have such an attack.

X_X I kinda did, though not directly. “Blaze’s first attack stops Claydol in its tracks and unless they Unown G or Unown Q it before you attack it with Luring Flame (or if they have a Switch or Warp Point in hand), they will be stuck until it gets OHKOed next turn because of your Pokemon Body plus 30 damage.” Unless they td the warp, its going to most likely be stuck there. Same thing with any tech pokemon. The first attack makes blaziken truely a beast, as you can avoid using the big blast against a fattie and go after easy prizes instead, if you must. Its also great early game and I’m going to look into what other pokemon have such an attack.

Pretty much my point exactly. What do you powerspray? Luxray? Blaze OHKOs luxray pretty easily, and the 30 drawback is absolutely cripping, espically against mirrior and with a card that can drag out. There is really no point in playing spray if your just going to stop that draw engine later on. Now there are cards that are not being played right now *cough*dusknoir*cough* that you should probably pack power spray for in most situations, but what does dusknoir really do to blaze? They need to also g thier suprise dusknoir or else its going to be sent up and locked for the easy prize. Between luxray/OHKOing and drag-burn, you really don’t need powerspray and it can actually limit how many prizes you can gain from blaze before the 40 set-back becomes a huge disadvantage. When you play a rush deck, you don’t care about the novelty cards. You WANT to draw prizes. By t4, this deck should have a 2 prize lead, even if the opponet gets set-up. With a 2 prize lead and an attack that swings for a maximum 2 shot, you don’t care about powers. There is no power that is broken enough to really care about this disadvantage. Plus power lets you use luxray and nail benched stage 1s for the easy prizes if you don’t get blaze in play….blah blah blah. lol I’m done with this rant.

Pretty much my point exactly. What do you powerspray? Luxray? Blaze OHKOs luxray pretty easily, and the 30 drawback is absolutely cripping, espically against mirrior and with a card that can drag out. There is really no point in playing spray if your just going to stop that draw engine later on. Now there are cards that are not being played right now *cough*dusknoir*cough* that you should probably pack power spray for in most situations, but what does dusknoir really do to blaze? They need to also g thier suprise dusknoir or else its going to be sent up and locked for the easy prize. Between luxray/OHKOing and drag-burn, you really don’t need powerspray and it can actually limit how many prizes you can gain from blaze before the 40 set-back becomes a huge disadvantage. When you play a rush deck, you don’t care about the novelty cards. You WANT to draw prizes. By t4, this deck should have a 2 prize lead, even if the opponet gets set-up. With a 2 prize lead and an attack that swings for a maximum 2 shot, you don’t care about powers. There is no power that is broken enough to really care about this disadvantage. Plus power lets you use luxray and nail benched stage 1s for the easy prizes if you don’t get blaze in play….blah blah blah. lol I’m done with this rant.

I think 3 VS Seeker and 1 Bebe is good.

You are right that Gengar becomes much better against a deck without Claydol, definitely something to watch out for.

1) Your percents are all wrong. lol. I forget how you actually determine what are the odds of prizing one card, but you first have to factor in not opening with it in your hand and then determine what are the odds of getting it in one of your six prizes. And even going with your much, much higher percentage (I think its realy about 4% but idk where the pojo article is), thats going to happen on average (which is what we’re using, which means it can happen 0 times or every time) of 1 time a tourny (5 Rounds of swiss, 9 games of top cut=14).
2) This is a battle roads deck, meaning the tournies are small and one lose will not kill your rating or chance to top cut still. Even if prizing one of them is an auto-lose (hasn’t happened when I prized luxray yet and haven’t prized blaze yet so idk about him), you just have to win out at a battle roads, which usually isn’t that hard (so says the guy who hasn’t won a br yet and lost his invite to Hawaii because of them).
3) Althouh already mentioned, prizing luxray does NOT result in an auto-lose. I’ve won entire matches without even using luxray, even when it wasn’t prized. Plus whose to say what really happens durning the match? Because of plus power and crobat, this list can draw into prizes very easily and therefore can donk an opponet and get “lucky” and draw into one of the prized good guys early game (1/6 chance, then 1/5, then 1/4…). It is because of plus power that luxray is able to win games by himself and draw into infernape if he is ever prized.
4) Playing powerspray is entirely optional in this deck (I don’t think the deck needs it but would like to have a few in here if there was room) and I already feel that 4 cyrus’ is too many, and dropping better bebe’s for another aaron’s is…..idk just bad really. I think this deck has plenty of recovery and if anything, I would probably drop a premier ball for the mentioned azelf (though I haven’t found prizes to be a problem yet).
5) Full-throttle is what blaziken is all about. Go in there, smash faces, shake hands, walk away. lol Because blaziken can OHKO alot of guys with just one attack, you want to ensure that he can OHKO any guy with one attack at least once. Because he can beat up non-ged dols without the help of luxray, you want to have that option to explode on the opponet at the right time to seal the match against alot of decks (really the ones that take 2+ energy).

1) Your percents are all wrong. lol. I forget how you actually determine what are the odds of prizing one card, but you first have to factor in not opening with it in your hand and then determine what are the odds of getting it in one of your six prizes. And even going with your much, much higher percentage (I think its realy about 4% but idk where the pojo article is), thats going to happen on average (which is what we’re using, which means it can happen 0 times or every time) of 1 time a tourny (5 Rounds of swiss, 9 games of top cut=14).
2) This is a battle roads deck, meaning the tournies are small and one lose will not kill your rating or chance to top cut still. Even if prizing one of them is an auto-lose (hasn’t happened when I prized luxray yet and haven’t prized blaze yet so idk about him), you just have to win out at a battle roads, which usually isn’t that hard (so says the guy who hasn’t won a br yet and lost his invite to Hawaii because of them).
3) Althouh already mentioned, prizing luxray does NOT result in an auto-lose. I’ve won entire matches without even using luxray, even when it wasn’t prized. Plus whose to say what really happens durning the match? Because of plus power and crobat, this list can draw into prizes very easily and therefore can donk an opponet and get “lucky” and draw into one of the prized good guys early game (1/6 chance, then 1/5, then 1/4…). It is because of plus power that luxray is able to win games by himself and draw into infernape if he is ever prized.
4) Playing powerspray is entirely optional in this deck (I don’t think the deck needs it but would like to have a few in here if there was room) and I already feel that 4 cyrus’ is too many, and dropping better bebe’s for another aaron’s is…..idk just bad really. I think this deck has plenty of recovery and if anything, I would probably drop a premier ball for the mentioned azelf (though I haven’t found prizes to be a problem yet).
5) Full-throttle is what blaziken is all about. Go in there, smash faces, shake hands, walk away. lol Because blaziken can OHKO alot of guys with just one attack, you want to ensure that he can OHKO any guy with one attack at least once. Because he can beat up non-ged dols without the help of luxray, you want to have that option to explode on the opponet at the right time to seal the match against alot of decks (really the ones that take 2+ energy).

I mean ifernape ’4′ lv. x

I mean ifernape ’4′ lv. x