City Championships have come and gone. Having reviewed the City Championships results I can tell UG members are enjoying nice spells of success in these very important tournament series towards Worlds. Unfortunately we are now entering a low in terms of tournaments, with States looming in the horizon until March.
Since we have a truly new set coming out in February where at best we know around 30 of the cards that will be in it, trying to find something truly game breaking right now doesn’t seem worth it since our card poll will be changing soon with cards no one has even seen before (if the set’s description of new Pokemon Prime holds true).
Lost World: Each player may, during his or her turn, end the game and declare himself or herself the winner if the opponent has 6 or more Pokemon cards in his or her Lost Zone.
One card that is safe to assume will be released is Lost World. This card for those of you who don’t know, allows you to declare yourself the winner of the match once your opponent has 6 or more Pokemon in their Lost Zone.
This is an obvious combo with Gengar Prime and to a lesser extent Mew Prime, and it seems as though it will be the deck to beat in the upcoming States Championships unless the new Pokemon Prime have something to counteract this effect.
Since we really don’t know how the new set nor the Lost World Stadium card will affect the metagame until we know all the cards in the new set, I am going to take this opportunity to discuss another card and deck which still has yet to truly shine in my opinión, just as Feraligatr Prime.
Scizor Prime has been barely mentioned in the UG articles, but given the current popularity of special energy cards such as Double Colorless Energy and Rescue Energy, Scizor Prime seems more and more like a viable way to disrupt a metagame. LuxChomp runs DCE, Call and sometimes Warp out of 12 or 13 Energy cards. Gengar usually maxes out on Rescue along with 2 or 3 Warp’s and a low Psychic count.
Heck, some Gyarados I’ve seen run up to FOURTEEN energy cards in a deck that requires none to function, and this includes maxing out on Warp, Rescue, Special Darkness and a few Cyclone. A lot of lists are opting to run less or none of the card Pokemon Rescue since Rescue Energy provides enough recovery for the beast.
So what do we have? A single Pokemon that begin attacking Turn 2, with great HP, great weakness, and a Poke-Body “Red Armor” that can cause issues for every single of the top decks out right now. Not to mention both DialgaChomp and Machamp have trouble dealing with the constant damage output of Scizor, so even though they aren’t hindered by the Poke-Body, they have trouble dealing with the Pokemon alone.
