What do you mean I'm not tier 1?!?
Well, since the last time I wrote here, I’ve discovered quite a few things about this current format. First and foremost, let me say that any and all hopes of Beartic being a tier 1 threat have been dashed. As cool (get it? Ice type!) as he is, he is unfortunately just not quite on par with the other threats in this format. He isn’t necessarily bad, but there are more degenerate things you can do in this format.
Also, due to his heavier energy requirements, and large retreat cost, he isn’t that splashable of a threat, so he can’t just be used in support other tactics. It really does come down to building a deck around the card, which maximizes its strengths, but isn’t good enough, or trying to plug him into better decks, at which point you don’t maximize the strengths of the card.
That pretty much limits us down to Gothitelle and Tornadus as being the best cards in Emerging Powers, Pokemon wise.
Now, I want to just break out of my standard (lack of) formating and just cut to the chase and post the decks I am currently testing. These are also the decks I am running on the Pokemon TCG Online. For those who are playing, I am Ruiner on there.
I wound up investing rather heavily into the game, having opened 550 or so, so if you are looking for cards, feel free to hit me up and perhaps we can work out a deal. Especially if you need any of the Trainers out of Triumphant, as I have a rather large stockpiling of those for trade.
Nonetheless, these are the decks I have built. (Note to players: Don’t use decks with Reuniclus…it’s near impossible not to time out with that card in any sort of real game.)
