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Only dark energy.

Darkrai EX is the only attacker.

Shaymin and Aerodactyl in the bench for their passives. Shaymin heals 10 points per turn to each pokemon and Aerodactyl prevents evolving active pokemon.

Cyrus can delay a heavy hit by forcing the opponent to waste an energy getting them back into play, or allow you to pick off a weakened for that has retreated. 

Because Darkrai EX and Shaymin are the only basic Pokemon, the 2 pokeballs will help you get a Darkrai EX put quickly. If not, the two Pokemon Communications will come in clutch.

Low cost.
Aggressive.
Going first you prefer to have Ponyta as active.

(You can use any weezing or Nidoking, if you don't have the full art)

There isn't a specific strategy to play this deck, so just remember the next things:


Pros of this Deck

- Low Energy Cost

- No Ex 

- Pokemon Abilities

-Really Powerful against the Psychic type

Cons of this deck

- You'll need a good starter hand

- The Red Card can turn around the match

Start with Druddigon and keep Pidgeot ex on bench, then use x-speed when required to clean-sweep.

The plan is simple, hit them with Spiritbomb or Honchkrow to add a bit of damage, then use Weaville EX to hit them for 70 DMG. The deck works well in the early game with opportunities arising no matter what Pokemon you start with. All have 1 retreat cost so staying alive is fairly easy. Honchkrow is very useful for picking off those that wish to leave the front line. Obviously Darkrai ex does a far better job in this deck but this is the budget friendly version. The deck is very difficult when the opponent has established a board of tanks and has healing of any kind.  

Lucario's Fighting Coach ability can help cover for the lower damage of Gible and Gabite's attacks while they are waiting to evolve, as well as allow Marshadow and Garchomp ex to reach a crucial 120 damage break point. This allows them to OHKO the ubiquitous Arceus ex thanks to weakness, and even successfully OHKO through Giant Cape if you manage to evolve 2 Lucario.

Palkia ex does massive damage but uses a lot of energy to do so. Generally, you want to start with Manaphy in the active spot which will let you set up some energy on any benched Pokemon. Use Misty to put down a lot of energy on Palkia ex or any other water Pokemon as Vaporeon will let you put it onto the active spot later on no matter what. This specific Eevee is the strongest on turn one for potential damage just in case. x Speed can be swapped out for Leaf, but use X Speed/Leaf to conserve energy when swapping. Sabrina is for a little bit of control.

Always starts with a Zapdos EX, which can attack on your first attacking turn. 

Takes a few turns to power up, but high HP helps tank until that point. Use of Professor and Poke ball helps get the second one on the bench and powering up when the first is good to go. 

All the other cards help frustrate you opponents tactics, from red carding evolutions, or bring back low health basics to fill the bench. 

Hyper acceleration! Energy acceleration go fast. Best start is usually manaphy. If going second, just put manaphy in active to make opponent think you got no pokemon and are bricking. Can't afford to be early punished by sabrina. Start eevee? Pray you get manaphy. Eevee is the one that does 20 damage because damage needs to be guaranteed against caped pokemon. Build energy to vaporeon, palkia ex. Irida is here to reduce cyrus chances. Misty for more hyper acceleration! Pull off 150 and bench damage by your second turn! Doesn't do well late game, and gets crushed by electric decks.

Great at one shotting Ex Cards with Mesprit.

Use Azelf and Cyrus to take out who you want.

Get the trio quickly using Oak, Balls, Slabs and Comms.

Ideally Uxie out first to generate energy on benched Mesprit.

Mew is good if you need to tank some damage, and in some cases its worth building up genome hacking.

Use X Speeds as needed to swap out mon. Works well with Dawn for a surprise attack with Mesprit.

Keep your copies of the trio in you hand, so opponent thinks their safe from your Mesprit when they K.O one of your trio.

Simple deck that combines Lucario's damage buff with the Machop/Machoke/Machamp ex high damage output and survivability. 

(Title is because I went through a phase where all my decks were named and themed after the various crime syndicates in pokémon- I have since moved on but this deck, as it has evolved and changed, kept the name because I think it's funny)

This is honestly, probably, the weirdest deck I've made. The list, just from looking at it, looks like bulls**t. But ... have faith, okay? It's actually pretty good. It's also about as close as I'll come at this point to playing the "meta." Buckle up.

Preferably start with your turtles and charge them up with Kiawe and clean up with Incineroar at the end. But opening with Incineroar and cleaning up with a turtle afterwards isn't that bad, but it will be easier for your opponent to score 3 points that way. Incineroar can immediately swing with fire fang when coming off the bench which is why you play him instead of something like Charizard or Infernape that take longer to get started since Turtonator will be eating up your energy every turn it attacks.