Pokemon 2010 World Championship Deck Analysis

Written by Dakota Streck | September 24, 2010 | 9 comments | 13,614 views | Rating: +3

Yuta Komatsuda is the current 2010 Master’s Division World Champion. He used LuxChomp with a Dialga G LV.X tech. This will be a breakdown of his winning list.

Note: This article will focus more on why a card was included as well as the reason for the number of copies in the deck, so if you are a newer player that doesn’t know the metagame as well, you may want to look at what the cards do before reading the article.

Here is his list:

Pokemon

2 Luxray GL RR
2 Luxray GL LV.X RR
2 Garchomp C SV
2 Garchomp C LV.X SV
1 Azelf LA
1 Dialga G PL
1 Dialga G LV.X PL
2 Uxie LA
1 Uxie LV.X LA
1 Crobat G PL
1 Dragonite FB SV
1 Lucario GL RR
1 Bronzong G PL

T/S/S

2 Roseanne’s Research
4 Cyrus’s Conspiracy
3 Professor Oak’s New Theory
2 Bebe’s Search
1 Aaron’s Collection
2 Pokemon Collector
3 TGI SP Radar
4 TGI Poke Turn
3 TGI Power Spray
1 Luxury Ball
4 TGI Energy Gain
1 Night Maintenance
1 Pokemon Communication

Energy

4 Double Colorless Energy
2 Metal Energy(Basic)
3 Warp Energy
2 Lightning Energy

Luxray GL LV.X
This is an extremely powerful card, able to drag up anything such as Claydol, Uxie or a non-SP basic and KO it, allowing you to majorly disrupt your opponent’s set up. It is able to do 60 damage for 1 lightning and an energy gain. Luxray GL LV.X is a main attacker in the deck.

Garchomp C LV.X
Another powerful disruptor, and the other main attacker for the deck. For a double colorless and an energy gain, you can do 80 to any of your opponent’s Pokemon at the cost of discarding 2 energies attached to it. Due to it’s attack requiring colorless energy, it can abuse Double Colorless Energy.

Dialga G LV.X
This card was used as a secondary attacker in the deck. It was also used as a Mewtwo LV.X counter. It also helped with matches against Donphan. I believe that this tech line will see even more play now that Viletomb is is becoming so popular.

Azelf LA
Due to this deck having a significant amount of techs, it was vulnerable to having a card prized when it was needed, so Azelf was used to help greatly with that problem.

Uxie LA & Uxie LV.X
Uxie is used for it’s “Set Up”, which allows you to draw until you have 7 cards when it’s put in play. Uxie LV.X was used as an engine for the deck, helping the deck to keep it’s speed throughout the game. It is used to help counter Machamp SF.

Crobat G
Well, this inclusion should be self explanatory. It was used to set up one-hit KO’s.

Dragonite FB
This card is a little bit more interesting. Instead of using the traditional Garchomp C LV.X counter, Ambipom G, he chose this card instead. I consider Dragonite FB to be the better of the two for 2 reasons. The first being that it can OHKO a Garchomp LV.X even if they have energy on it. The second is that it can also OHKO Luxray, Garchomp, Crobat G and many other SP basics.

Lucario GL
This card was included for it’s ability to make all weaknesses in play x2, very similar to the stadium Lake Boundary. This helped with matches such as Gyarados and Machamp.

Bronzong G
This card was included for it’s Poke-Power “Galactic Switch” which allows you one energy attached to one of your Pokemon SP to another Pokemon. This helped make sure that the right Pokemon had the right energy when needed.

Most of the Trainer and Supporter lines are self explanatory, but here’s a few quick notes on them:

3 SP Radars
I believe that 3 is the perfect number in most SP decks because that way you can safely use two each match, without having to worry as much about an SP Radar being prized.

3 Power Spray
I’ve seen some decks run 4, but I think 3 is the best number so you can use the 4th slot for focusing on consistency.

1 Pokemon Communication
I have done a lot of testing with LuxChomp and I have found that 1 Communication works wonders to get rid of a card you don’t need and instead get a card that you do.

1 Night Maintenance & Aaron’s Collection
These cards are used for recovery and both help momentously late game, to help get those cards back and ready to use again.

3 Professor Oak’s New Theory
I think that this was a very good idea, PONT as it’s called, is very good for refreshing your hand. I play at least 2 in nearly all of my decks.

Warp Energy
This was used in place of Switch/Warp Point. I think this was a good choice because it could be used in a trainer and also as food for Garchomp C LV.X’s “Dragon Rush”. With Vileplume becoming more popular, I believe 1-2 will be added to almost every Sablelock, LuxChomp and DialgaChomp build.

A great deck list, expert techs and tons of play testing to make sure his deck is the best it could possibly be. This is what allowed Yuta Komatsuda to win the 2010 World Championships. Congratulations Yuta and good luck next year. I hope you get the chance to defend your title at the Pokemon 2011 World Champions!

http://twitter.com/T0nu Tonu Taitto

IMO this was good list for being an SP deck. The reason he won with it is that he had mastered certain matchups and had good luck during the whole tournament (as far as I have heard). Quite all of the LuxChomps looks about same, but this list has almost 10 card difference compared to most of the lists. Props to it.

Also, a little off-topic. Other 31 of the top-32 Master decks on Worlds can be found here: http://www.sixprizes.com/forums/showthread.php?1206-Worlds-Top-32-decks

http://www.facebook.com/people/Dakota-Streck/100000799856510 Dakota Streck

Yeah, it is a lot different than most LuxChomps. I mean, 15 supporters!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dakota-Streck/100000799856510 Dakota Streck

Yeah, it is a lot different than most LuxChomps. I mean, 15 supporters!

http://www.facebook.com/people/Martin-Garcia/676689170 Martin Garcia

I think the heavy supporter line was a counter meassure to trainer locks, he got more draw power with oak, and at the same time made sure he would never be locked in a spiritomb start.

Anonymous

Good article. Clearly the Roseanne’s and Night Maintenance are no longer playable so we have 3 slots open for the MD on format. No one net decks these days of course, so what are the best additions to replace these cards? Clearly the NM can be replaced by another Aarons. The 2 Rosies are another subject. If we replace them with trainers, we lose some consistency possibly. If we replace with Supporters such as Judge, we really potentially damage our own draw power.

Some options not in order of pref.:
1. +1 bebe’s and + 1 Collector – helps in case if trainer lock and keeps consistency of pokemon, but sacrifice energy consistency.
2. +2 Interviewers Question – poor mans roseanne’s but not real consistent.
3. +1 Dialga G, +1 Crobat G – gives more consistent starter possibilities.
4. +2 energy – could make drawing into energy slightly more likely
5. +2 Vs seeker – allow you to reuse Cyrus’s consipracy, but also more cards for trainer lock
6. +2 Energy Exchange – allow you to get special energy, but also adds cards for trainer lock
7. +2 warp point – could be helpful to level up dialga G
8. +1 unown Q, +1 warp energy – to add more board control
9. + 2 Stadiums such as Galactic HQ, gets rid of the dreaded BTS and can be played in trainer lock.
10. Toxicroak G and Psychic energy – added defense against Machamp SF
11. Promocroak and Psychic energy – for anti Luxray/Mirror

Anyone think of some others – keep in mind not to change whole system of the deck.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Dakota-Streck/100000799856510 Dakota Streck

I’d add 1 more energy(probably a lightning) and either another energy of some sort or a Galactic HQ. It’ll help get OHKO on Trainer lock decks as you won’t be able to use PokeTurns.

Anonymous

Good article. Clearly the Roseanne’s and Night Maintenance are no longer playable so we have 3 slots open for the MD on format. No one net decks these days of course, so what are the best additions to replace these cards? Clearly the NM can be replaced by another Aarons. The 2 Rosies are another subject. If we replace them with trainers, we lose some consistency possibly. If we replace with Supporters such as Judge, we really potentially damage our own draw power.

Some options not in order of pref.:
1. +1 bebe’s and + 1 Collector – helps in case if trainer lock and keeps consistency of pokemon, but sacrifice energy consistency.
2. +2 Interviewers Question – poor mans roseanne’s but not real consistent.
3. +1 Dialga G, +1 Crobat G – gives more consistent starter possibilities.
4. +2 energy – could make drawing into energy slightly more likely
5. +2 Vs seeker – allow you to reuse Cyrus’s consipracy, but also more cards for trainer lock
6. +2 Energy Exchange – allow you to get special energy, but also adds cards for trainer lock
7. +2 warp point – could be helpful to level up dialga G
8. +1 unown Q, +1 warp energy – to add more board control
9. + 2 Stadiums such as Galactic HQ, gets rid of the dreaded BTS and can be played in trainer lock.
10. Toxicroak G and Psychic energy – added defense against Machamp SF
11. Promocroak and Psychic energy – for anti Luxray/Mirror

Anyone think of some others – keep in mind not to change whole system of the deck.
Anonymous

He played no Luxray counter…. I wonder how mirror matches would go with this list.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Lee/100000045704502 Richard Lee

Lucario GL is a possible counter with 2 basic Metal in his list, if the defending Luxray GL Lv.X has 2 energies on it, then 1 Flash Bite + Combo Throw can knock it out