Yoyoyo SixPrizes Underground, I hope you all are well and ready to read a sweet article with a lot of interesting decks that popped up at Worlds this year, even if it is a little bit late! Speaking of which, Worlds was a blast – I got to hang out with all of the people I’ve come to know and love from the game, as well as meet new people and put more faces to screenames.
I was able to be part of the team that “broke the format” and watched my good friend Ross take the deck all the way to the finals of Worlds, where he lost to another person that tested with us in the days leading up to Worlds, and who used a list very similar to the one we had been testing.
Anyway, you know me, I’m not big into long introductions and talking about nonsense: you guys signed up to read about Pokemon, and that’s what I like to write about! Without further ado, let’s roll…
LCQ/Grinder Preparation
Arriving Wednesday with my mom and two brothers, we all had a vague idea of what we would play, but we needed to hammer out the details. In the end, I stuck with my gut and played Yanmega/Magnezone, pretty similar to the list I ran at Nats. Sebastian Crema (GrandmaJoner) and I had been playing and perfecting the list since Nationals, and I think our list was pretty ideal for the expected metagame.
I do want to give a shout out to Sami and Fulop’s list, though, as I think it is a little bit more consistent, and still fit my playstyle quite well and had a lot of the options that I prided in my list. Here’s what I ended up going with:
