beginner friendly

Sandamer / Lucario

Pokémon

  • Sandshrew x2
  • Riolu x2
  • Sandslash x2
  • Lucario x2

Trainers

  • X Speed x2
  • Poké Ball x2
  • Pokémon Communication x2
  • Giant Cape x2
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Pokémon Center Lady x2

Shaymin Heal

Pokémon

  • Oddish x2
  • Gloom x2
  • Bellossom x2
  • Tangela x2
  • Tangrowth x2
  • Exeggcute x2
  • Alolan Exeggutor x1
  • Shaymin x2

Trainers

  • Poké Ball x2
  • Leaf Cape x1
  • Professor's Research x2

Put both shaymins on the bench if you can to keep your pokemon alive. Don't put energy on shaymins, use energies on other cards. If taken damage, use fragrant flower garden to heal. If you get low, retreat and put up other Pokemon on bench, not shaymin. Benched Pokemon will get shaymins heals too, so you can get back to full hp and go back to the active.

Tiger Balm

Pokémon

  • Incineroar ex x2
  • Litten x2
  • Torracat x1
  • Turtonator x1
  • Turtonator x1

Trainers

  • Lillie x1
  • Guzma x1
  • Sabrina x1
  • Poké Ball x2
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Giant Cape x1
  • Rocky Helmet x1
  • Rare Candy x2
  • Kiawe x2

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.

One Punch

Pokémon

  • Machop x2
  • Machoke x2
  • Machamp ex x2
  • Riolu x2
  • Lucario x2

Trainers

  • Potion x2
  • Poké Ball x2
  • Giant Cape x2
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Sabrina x2

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

Is it a helicopter?

Pokémon

  • Yanma x2
  • Yanmega ex x2
  • Dialga ex x2
  • Shaymin x1

Trainers

  • Potion x1
  • Poké Ball x2
  • Pokémon Communication x2
  • Giant Cape x2
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Cyrus x1
  • Red x1
  • Pokémon Center Lady x2

Use only Metal-type energies!!

Live or Die by Turn 5- Water Energy Hyper Acceleration

Pokémon

  • Manaphy x2
  • Vaporeon x2
  • Palkia ex x2
  • Eevee x2

Trainers

  • Poké Ball x2
  • Pokémon Communication x2
  • Giant Cape x1
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Misty x2
  • Leaf x2
  • Irida x1

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.

Arceus-Dialga-Mew Deck

Pokémon

  • Mew ex x2
  • Dialga ex x2
  • Arceus ex x2

Trainers

  • Potion x1
  • X Speed x2
  • Poké Ball x2
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Giant Cape x1
  • Rocky Helmet x1
  • Giovanni x1
  • Sabrina x1
  • Leaf x1
  • Cyrus x1
  • Adaman x1

Steel energy only!

 

Saw this deck concept, tried it and it worked, so I thought I might post it here...

 

The idea is to get Dialga in the Active spot as soon as possible and start giving away energy to Arceus and Mew on the bench. Mew is there to try to deal with opposing Charizard and other heavy hitters.

 

We have only 6 basic pokémon cards here with ways to get the bench full for Arceus.

 

Gengar Control

Pokémon

  • Drowzee x2
  • Haunter x2
  • Gastly x2
  • Psyduck x2
  • Old Amber x1

Trainers

  • Professor's Research x2
  • Poké Ball x2
  • X Speed x2
  • Potion x2
  • Sabrina x2
  • Giovanni x1

The basis is to stop the opponent from using any trainers. Psyduck to start until gengar is fully developed. Can use amber to tank.

Serperior/Exeggutor Deck

Pokémon

  • Exeggcute x2
  • Exeggutor x2
  • Snivy x2
  • Servine x2
  • Serperior x2
  • Dhelmise x1

Trainers

  • Potion x1
  • Poké Ball x2
  • Professor's Research x2
  • Erika x2
  • Giant Cape x1
  • Rocky Helmet x1