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Loved this vid! I’m getting rly into Gardevoir and I really want to start using it but it feels a little silly to construct Gardevoir decks with the 2025 rotation coming so soon. Do you have any thoughts or theories on how the Gardevoir deck might survive without Kirlia/RGreninja/Heavy ball etc?

You mentioned Garde being a really bad MU for Snorlax. As a Garde player I found it tricky but maybe I’m doing something wrong. How do you beat Snorlax?

Thats an awesome way to play it!! But how can you manage it after the rotation?

I don't think we need the nest balls tbh... Lost vacuum with all the jamming towers currently is better imo, plus it helps in the mirror, and you can run the 2nd candy

love ya man but turn down the music mah boy holy cow XD

Thanks for the video

I honestly think Gardevoir's Drago mu is about 50-50. Drago often doesn't have enough resources to win the game with the combined threat of Adrena-Brain, Mawile, Drifloon, Stamp, Mind Bend, Moonlit Hill, and Manaphy. It's pretty difficult for Drago to take 6 prizes in a timely manner against Gardevoir without running out of resources and losing to Mawile or similar in the endgame. For this reason, I'd actually put Gardevoir over Drago in the tier list. I also don't think Charizard is worthy of top of B tier. It's more of a low B, upper C tier deck in my opinion. Taking a terrible matchup into both the S Tier decks as well as Snorlax and Pidgeot makes me not want to play the deck to a tournament. It can probably make day 2 pretty reasonably, but it won't be able to compete with the Gardevoir and Drago at the top tables. Archaludon seems more of an upper B tier deck to me as well, since it's Gardevoir matchup is absolutely abysmal. The mu is literally less than 5% on the Archaludon side of things. If I were playing Miraidon this weekend, I would be playing a Switch Cart in order to have an okay Gardy mu. I wouldn't play the 2 Switch Cart that's necessary to have a heavily favored mu, but I'd still play one to make it a 50-50.

How does bundle single-handedly turn Archaludon into a 50/50 for Regidrago? I’m pretty sure Regidrago should be more worried than that. It’s still probably BDIF though. Glad to see people actually respecting Garde

Josh I need some Prisma format Garde like I need air rn lol. Are you of the same opinion that at least for the Stamp version of the deck, Budew seems to have negative synergy since we wanna go TM Evo

Josh are you gonna stream Birmingham? Watch party?

It doesn't work. Every single person in every single deck I've fun against is running switch. I've not had any consistent success with mawile.

Any thoughts on how this'll be impacted by a budew meta? Thinking of picking this deck up but don't want to dive in if it's about to get kneecapped lol

Hello Josh, I follow your guide and stary my TCG Live recently and plan to grab some cards for "Real Deck", thanks for your great video and I learn lots of timing and combo from you. Mind I ask what do you compare Spiritomb / Mawiile / or one more Munkidori for the last pokemon spot?

How does the kirlia die if it has bravery charm attached to it?

I was literally typing out that you passed instead of attacking. Thankfully they were zoned out at that point.

oh my god that 1st turn on the miraidon matchup was just nuts 😭😭

this deck seems way too gimmicky for me. you just put up mawile knowing you are going to lose if there is a switch and pray there isnt one. then your opponent draws out. it is easily countered if it gets too popular in the meta share. i dont get it.

Try running one or two stretches!

whats the difference between spiritomb and klefki? seems like spiritomb is just a worse klefki

good stuff, may be digging back into gardy with the upcoming changes to the meta here with budew... interesting to see flutter mane out of the lists these days. is klefki just a better option to slow their setup, even without having a relevant attack and ways to get damage on their board for later manipulation/munki shenanigans?

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Tilted off the planet lol some people need to learn grace in defeat is a virtue

Hey Josh thank you for the video and congratulations on your run! I have to say however that I don't know how I feel about the Mawile tech. All it really does is force people to play a Switch or Turo, so if it catches on and becomes more popular it will defeat itself as it literally does nothing if they do. You would have lost both the Miraidon and Regidrago games if they just had one of those, so unless you add Eri / Miss Fortune Sisters to your deck it's not a very reliable strategy, and if you do add those you might as well just change to playing Snorlax. I'd love to see more games where you win without Mawile or if the enemy does play a Switch!

I am commenting for engagement and I am making my comment very long, so the TH-cam algorithm will like it more! Also happy holidays. 😄

your face when the drago got unfair stamped into switch powerglass research was so real lmao. opp dragos always draw the nuts

The Gardy goat. Congrats on another great run!

honestly i enjoyed gardi more during naic format where stamp was the go to more than the box when chao popularized it, So it was quite nice to see a lot more stamp do well. and the combo of turn 2 stamp into counter catcher scream tail snipe is a dopamine rush

MY GOAT!!!

lots of trapping, not a lot of attacking

Yo Josh! Big fan, good job on your run at Toronto :) That was my first regional ever and I went 5-1-3 with Gardy!

Hey i am new to this TCG and just got the elite battle deck thing. Now i learned that some stuff is rotating out soon... do you have a list / list idea for 2025 or is it still to early for that to ask

1 hour is crazy

Tcgmasters sim is so great. The undo button is fantastic. Practicing mirror matches on there is fun too. However, exactly as you mentioned, I'm only comfortable on 2 decks atm, so using the sim w any diff deck is not ideal as I don't know the ideal board states at diff stages of the game to go for, etc. Awesome vid!

Why dont use manaphy?

I was thinking about removing the fezandipiti to reduce the 2 prizes in the deck

for this deck, what is the best option: Klefki or fluttermane? or can use both?

Is the article mentioned here worth the ~$130.. 900 yuan price tag

im so bad at playing this deck. i run through my deck all the time without doing anything. wasting resources

if you make a video with the updated astral crown cards

hello according to you dragapult - charizard with dasknoir and strong

Is pokebeach a good paid app to have?

this video is so lit and very helpful!!!!

Great video easy sub

Thanks for all the great advice. I have found watching your play has taught me a lot that I didn’t realize just practicing in a vacuum.

How Klefki can turn off Fez? Fez draws cards after KO, Klefki needs to be Active Pokemon for it's ability to work, and I highly doubt anyone is taking KO with Klefki :D

Amazing content, thank you! I was looking for the tcgmasters simulator site for too long! I would also recommend my.limitless site too to build or modify decks. (Also has tools like printing deck list for league challenges or proxy printing, importing deck list to ptcg live and playtesting)

Oh, this is good! I just wrote a Magic article a bit ago basically complaining about how all of this info is really well known in Magic but not so much in Pokemon. Still wish more existed, but this is great.

Thanks for the advice but I've already learned everything i will ever need to know from The J Wittz. I can't lose.

What website would you recommend for looking at pokemon in the format? For example, if i were building a Sylveon ex deck and wanted to see the eevee's i have to choose from