Claw snag, good game.
As most of you know the Pokemon United States National Championships are this coming weekend. A lot of people are scrambling to find a deck that will work after the very surprising standings from the Canadian National Championships. The deck that was considered the “BDIF” by so many, Magneboar, only took 2 seats out of the Top 16 in masters.
Almost everyone was very surprised by this and are equally surprised by the rising of Yanmega. As it turns out speed and versatility are better than having a slow heavy hitter. (Anyone surprised now? Look at LuxChomp and Gyarados, they could easily beat slow heavy hitting decks in MD-On.
Well I’m not here to talk about either of these decks, I’m here to talk about an unexpected star that seemed to come out of nowhere. Weavile.
I’m guessing you read the picture I have or already knew what Weavile does, so I’m going to get right to it. Weavile can be used in many combinations to limit your opponent’s set up by discarding key cards or to help completely get rid of your opponents hand, which I will get to later.
I will go over 2 decks and give decklists for each of them. The deck that did well in Canada that uses Weavile is the one I will get to first.
Weavile/Ambipom’s goal is to make sure your opponent doesn’t have a hand from early on in the game by dropping Weaviles and using supper scoop ups and seekers to repetitively use Weavile along with Ambipoms first attack to put cards in their hand on the bottom of their deck. Here is a decklist that I will explain.
| Pokemon – 23
4 Cleffa HS/CL
4 Aipom (3 TM/1 UL)
1 Zorua BW
1 Tyrogue HS/CL
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Trainers – 29
1 Flower Shop Girl
3 Seeker
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Energy – 8 |
You need 4 Cleffa for getting your Weaviles and Ambipoms. No need for Judge because of Trickery. Most of the rest is self-explanatory.
The second and last Weavile deck I will talk about is Weavile/Donphan. As I said earlier, Weavile/Ambipom lacks a good attacker, which can hurt them against decks that get out an attacker quickly to start attacking by turn 2, like Yanmega. This deck gives you that attack power, and in combination with Weavile it can really cripple your opponent. Here is my list, which I will also explain.
| Pokemon – 23 4 Cleffa HS/CL
4 Phanphy CL
4 Donphan [Prime] HS
1 Tyrogue HS/CL
2 Boufflant BW
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Trainers – 28
4 Judge
1 Flower Shop Girl
2 Seeker
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Energy – 97 Fighting 2 Double Colorless
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Again, you need the 4 Weavile to get them out quickly. Ruins of Alph is for Yanmega so you can 2 shot it with Donphan. Boufflant is needed again for RDL. 4 Cleffa because you need to Eeek until your set up enough to have your Donphan out safely. Judge is in here because of no Ambipom.
Sorry for the short length or this article, because I wanted to get you guys info on this in time for Nationals. I hope you liked my article and take into consideration the deck as a play for nationals. If you’re not playing it, expect it because I do predict a fair amount of play. Thanks for your time!
-Henry
