Hello again readers! I’d like to apologize for taking a bit longer than I attended to get this article finished. I’ve been sick the past 5 days, and kept putting it off, and figured I’d cram it all together at the last minute again and get it turned in early this morning, but it was 2 AM again, and I was spiking a bit of a fever, so I wound up falling asleep and woke up much later than I wanted to.
Long story short, article is a bit late, but full of up to date, cutting edge content regardless! Yes, that made me feel like a shameless salesman. It was fun none the less. Anyways, I have a larger topic I wanted to address in the latter half of the article, but I wanted to tie up the loose ends as usual to begin with.
First and foremost, Call of Legends was released. I had remained optimistic, and even genuinely excited for this set leading up to its release.
Generally, with the sets being released so far in advance in Japan, I’m apathetic at best towards the new set, since all of the excitement over what new decks may emerge gets spread out over months as people brainstorm over time.
This was different, but unfortunately, it was also a giant slap in the face to the player base. Nothing of value was added to the set to make it worth abusing. Ninetales and Smeargle were reprinted, but saw fringe play at best already. Smeargle is usually a 1 of, or in some experimental builds, a 4 of to kickstart a deck.
I commented previously on this, and I addressed it again regarding Tom Hall’s analysis, but I really enjoy the Lucario in this set, and I guess I’ll use this as an excuse to shameless plug a list that I brewed recently involving the card.
Obviously, its best partner is Palkia G LV.X, but that gives you a major weakness to LostGar because you are doing all of their work for them. I have an attempt to offset that “issue” slightly, so even if this list itself doesn’t run up to full potential, it is at least a building block for where to start.
I’ll be honest: The focus of my testing has settled on both building a LostGar list that keeps up with all of the hate we are experiencing against it, and building LuxChomp and Sablelock builds to try and beat LostGar while also not forfeiting to the random decks we may run into at States.
Before I share my Lucario list, I want to call attention to a major issue that I see popping up with a lot of people’s testing: People are developing tunnel vision.
