Once upon a time, there was a man named Rob downs who played the Pokémon trading card game. He liked playing unique decks that people hadn’t seen before—sometimes very fun, and sometimes very good. Around the Stormfront set, he invented a deck that he called UR Donk.
I believe that U stood for Uxie, and R stood for Unown R. The deck used an engine full of Trainers such as Poke Drawer +, Pokedex, and an almost completely unplayed card at the time: Victory Medal. These many draw cards let him set up quickly, attempting to draw deep into the deck by turn 1.
The idea was that with PlusPowers attatched to Uxie, you could hit for 60 damage on turn 1 and put the Uxie, Energy, and 4 PlusPowers to the bottom of the deck. Then, by switching out to Mr. Mime MT, you could wall your opponent while hitting for a consistent 60 damage, plus the occasional heads on a Super Scoop Up flip.
In the end, Mr. Downs decided that 60 damage just wasn’t enough, and decided to transfer his speedy Trainer engine to another deck: Regigigas. He went on to win 3 Cities with it, and inspired me to take it for my first tournament victory (although to his defense, Rob was sick the day that I played).
Then came State Championships, and the release of the game changing set Platinum. Platinum gave Rob the tools he needed to deal much more damage — with Crobat G as well as Poke Turn and Super Scoop Up, he could now deal as much as 90+ damage before finally hitting with Uxie for 60!
