How to play Tord Reklev's Charizard ex / Dragapult ex Pokemon TCG deck!

hello everyone and welcome back to a brand new video here at ton thank you so much for tuning in today we're going to be playing with Tor rff's niic Charizard dragapult deck now I want to say this deck is an Abomination uh it feels like it like you look at it and it feels like it shouldn't work somehow it does and dragon P adds that new dimension to the deck which Charizard didn't have before which allows it to Place damage counters a different attack or a different weakness as well um so drao is a little bit of extra support which is nice um but overall this deck is like all over the place clearly it worked um I do expect this deck to start showing up at the leak ups and leak challenges that are happening uh very soon in July so be on the lookout for that and I figured it would be a good time to um to Showcase it yeah so we have chariz RX obviously a powerful attacker burdening Darkness amazing attack and the ability allows you to power itself up and also potentially power up dragapult dragapult EX on the other hand has a damage cap with Phantom dive 200 those six damage counters can set up nicely some damage numbers for Charizard EX so having the for Sight to calculate and imagine what's going to happen and place the damage correctly is going to be very key for this deck to work and then we have the backbone of Pidge Bal Clea and luminium now I'm very surprised there's no RM here it makes sense with the back of Nest ball um instead Tor decided to play a technical machine Evolution with the one extra energy that he does have generally very surprised at this decision but with the lack of nesall not being able to search for that ROM it definitely makes sense he's trying to rely a lot more on CFA he's also playing a very defensive Style with the professor turos with the pal pad so trying to get the best out of Snorlax and control decks as well so definitely a lot of sign energy there and then the aec of choice we have the unfair stamp to be able to disrupt even further so a sort of very defensive style of deck um for Tor here but also understandable I also like the for to split with Arvin iono because you have the UN First St essential as that third iono and you have the pat to recycle ionos as well we also have Temple of coo to deny the effects of Legacy energy gift energy and Mist energy all of which um are beneficial for you and collaps of course to get rid of any sort of liability on our bench defi span to help increase the damage and then a 52 energy split uh only two sidekicks that's fine Dragon Bolt is not the main focus but it is a cool um asset to have so I think this deck to do it justice we need to see it in action so let's jump some games see how we do all right so let's see if we can make this um moner monstrosity work so remember this is Charizard with dragapult and that's a Melton so not sure how competitive this is going to end up being right but could be a test for our improvisation right as we see the second Melton hit the field are we going to make it three we're going to grab a Beldum I don't even know what Mel metal ex or the regular two uh well there's a Mew so there's some semblance of trying to draw cards right and do something um fire weakness I'm guessing radiant charger is going to be pretty impactful but I generally have absolutely no clue what to expect so we're just going to go for for our usual game plan we're going to get our puffen we're going to get our for seal Stone after the B we prized one Charizard I do believe we have our dragapult we did prize the other Dam pits are available Charizard is there um this deck doesn't play ROM if I'm not mistaken let me just just quickly yeah it does not play RM so you can't price something that you're not playing one fire is priced as well so just all checking definitely um haven't had the most experience with this deck I do have luminan I can go get an Norman I have the four seal Stone as well so definitely want to establish the 60 HP Pidgey cuz I generally have no idea what to expect but I'm going to take a Gamble and say my opponent's not playing something that's going to threaten the bench so we're going to assume that the Pokemon are safe at least for now there's a m metal ex which search your deck up to two basic metal energy cards and attach them to this Pokemon then shuffle your deck and then this attack does 30 more damage for each metal energy attached to this Pokemon so I mean generally not horrible right with matang I mean is this better than thega uh don't think so has a higher base damage output but it does not have a varar right so I'd rather have 20 less HP and have the varar but hey what my question is now we do top deck the Arvin so I can Arvin for Ultra Ball plus whatever else and then I can luminum so I'm pretty sure I can get all the pieces Actually I don't even need to Arin for an ultra now can Arvin for a second rare candy and I mean sure let's just go grab another Arvin now are we ever going to need Professor turo I doubt it definitely know I can discard the Mana but yeah this will get me the pidet which is pretty great and yeah Arvin for the other rare candy probably I mean I could Ultra wall the Arvin but I kind of like the Arvin next turn for a potential Body Buddy Puffin um I mean it could get ult trable instead and then just get rid of the TM Evo and the manafi that actually seems like a better plan I'm not going to use the TM Evo at all and so we can do this and then in theory this is going to be a two hit ko. so we're just going to be Trading attacks right at least for now uh trading two Kos I mean if they can get to a one k. I haven't done the math but my intuition tells me that they're not going to be able to pull that off now I'm only going to attach two energies here with this Charizard just because I don't want to overcommit and I do want to have some available for later though I could attach the third to the DP maybe that's a good idea actually yeah you know what never mind I will be attaching all three two to the active one to the 3p I feel like that's going to be a a decent followup to try and get future prizes try to apply a little bit more pressure like over the course of two attacks I can get an extra priz card now let's do the math 10 energies is 300 + 90 390 that's too much so eight energies eight energies would require a perfect four energy metal maker plus attach for turn so feeling pretty good feeling pretty good about my chances here don't think I'm getting koed anytime [Music] soon and I mean I've known to be wrong before right so it definitely could happen just making sure I have the list open to reference cuz I don't know 100% by hard seems like we're gearing for a two ko. that's fine ion know we appreciate the extra three cards even though we do lose the Arvin we're gaining another Arvin which is still great we have the dragapult pretty awesome uh I could even well yeah I could I could go for the professor turo play um well no I'm one card short actually I need R candy and a py kick I can only quick search for [Music] one uh it wouldn't be terrible at all that's for sure but I mean this is a two hit kill war and I have the initiative right so I could just Retreat right take the KO pressure them a Tang then I get attacked then I attack them KO them a tang and I get koed back and that's fine but that feels a little wasteful honestly so all right here's what I'm going to do I'm going to Arvin for puffen for beu and then I'm going to play collapse stadium and I mean they're going to discard a Melton which is fine they might make a mistake and Discord Beldum but I really want to get the luminan off the board just in case things get out of hand they don't have that easy to prizer right there for the foreseeable future you have to imagine it's a Melton right um well it turns out it's a me which I don't mind too too much there's a mosquito being extremely annoying all right so we're going to get the track cloak and we get I have one extra card which is a psychic that's fantastic now yeah let's commit it and then we go 180 KO so far so good two hit KO trades I get the first KO now this is definitely a key turn though because they don't need to attach a lot of energies so they're going to get two turns of potentially double metal maker to gear up to the one hit Koo here so that is something uh to keep in mind in order to oh wow nice one a three card combo very nice um all right so I get an iono as well not super useful they are playing heavy baton which I like so in an Ideal World I could go subad RAR candy Charizard bench the rad zard knock them out right that would be the dream how realistic is that I don't know also going to run out of attackers it seems well never mind there's the Other M M Metal ex uh it's starting to look a little dire honestly not going to lie they're able to I mean no matter how many energies I think spreading them is wrong actually um just fully commit um but we'll see right so 200 to the M Metal I mean they split the energies how many energies do they even play six 10 that's 13 already assuming this is like the same structure we've only seen one suod which could be problematic there's a bunch of non energy cards at the bottom of the deck so ion know seems pretty reasonable here um bber also seems very reasonable all right so what I could do is go drao no I can't actually well I could maybe if I get the right of cards like if I get boss KO plus KO and myang that severely reduces the chances of them koing me right and I can still get two prizes over the course of two turns that might be the better play so if I'm going to do that then I wouldn't mind getting Arvin for Ultra wall so I'm going to put two Arvin back I'm going to start with indust iners all right yeah so change of plans oh wait never mind I need bosss what am I saying all right I get on first Stam not really relevant at this point in time um but hey why not let's give it a try five cards is a lot all right no boss do get Arvin also get turo which is pretty useless at this point to get the Ultra Ball so that gets me there now I can go Ultra wall boss KO midang and place the other six damage counters that's pretty lucky that is honestly pretty lucky I mean I had decent outs I guess this definitely feels a lot safer overall now I can go quick search get boss KO mang and place the other six damage counters and then all I need is one more attack which I could even do with p and once again this is to protect my dragapult there is a universe where they could go um metal maker four or three plus attach right there is a universe where that does happen but How likely that is I've minimized the odds right but if they had double Metang getting three energies total between two and an attach for turn that seems pretty more likely overall all so we'll see now I also have the option to GO RAD zard KO if they do KO me that Supra does increase the chances they do need eight right we did the MS 8 * 4 I mean 8 * 3 is 24 + 9 that's 330 they took get double Su OD so if they're going to have a chance this is how it happens one card in their hand instead of superod or is it an energy metal maker do they hit all four I'm nervous I am very nervous the suspense the suspense what's going to [Music] happen hello all right they hit two so depending on what's in their hand might have been one off that's perfectly fine we are good to go operation dragapult was a success all right so we're going to put back one Charmander and two fires wait did I already free up the Charizard from the price cards I actually don't remember I mean I have ratard right so so if I haven't I generally don't remember if I unlock Charizard D XR prices if I haven't that's fine we'll find out I guess we will find out we have not okay that's okay I could unlock it right now right which is good and uh obviously not going to turo I mean I could turo just to get more cards from B actually that seems fine it's just get the tripy re bench it indust in sizers for three we got a fire which is great and we got the other suo so now I can actually just put back the chariz RDX and with quick search this should almost be game over right I mean they have boss KO pitch Ys they also need to retreat which they can afford right they actually can afford but if they do that then I just Arvin all right I'm going to super back the Charizard right now and a lumion just because and then I have energies I have yeah I'm good we are good I'm still going to attach but we are good they knock out pigeon I go Arvin Ultra Ball KO um KO the whatever M Metal is active because I'm going to be doing 300 damage so we're good to go chariz RX no all right so chariz RDX the second copy remained in the price cards that's fine I mean generally if there was a varar attack happening somewhere getting an extra turn like right now right there was Merit um like it would have been a lot more threatening for sure uh my opponent also could have had the opportunity depending on how my board looked to establish um to use Mew against me to get that potential extra price at some point so I don't know definitely don't think M Metal Yak is better than um than Diga so until rotation next year like I've already seen people that are worried about rotation today right we had rotation two months ago and they're already thinking about how their deck is going to rotate in the next rotation right right so it's like rotation just happened enjoy what we have right now there's like I can understand that feeling two months from now not 10 months from now yeah the next rotation if it happens in April again it's 10 months away so chill and play Diga don't play M Metal X but in the future that could be the way that Metang remains viable or we get other metal Pokemon so um there was no varar for us to deal with in terms of of star Kronos the extra turn but uh we found a different path like I still went essentially 222 right however I was able to do it in a way that protected me and decreased the odds of my opponent being able to get exactly what they needed if they had been able to find four energies off of that metal maker they would have turned things around so Props to my opponents let's play one more all right an extremely uncomfortable hand right uh we are going to get Mulligans which hopefully helps we are up against Lugia so uh an awkward start against them never a good thing uh no RM to have some sort of draw we do have linion we do have for stone I could use ratard to just evolve into like dra and Charmeleon perhaps I can't evolve into PTO right there's no PTO in the list all right right my does start iron hands does go first they did win the coin flip I wish there was some sort of marker to like who won the coin flip or at least whose turn it is right um or who's going to go for I don't know something a visual Showcase of what's going on there's also so much dead space but anyways all right we see luminan probably for Carmine I have to imagine yep there's a carmine so can play that supporter on the first turn unlike all the other supporters and that's a lot of cards lost I'm glad the thoron is gone I'm glad the jack is gone arups unfortunate please flip heads no dang we were rooting for heads so my opponent wouldn't be able to get that loot yet down on turn one um I'm glad the third turn is gone third turn is always something that can cause Havoc overall and I did not just top deck the only copy of Charmeleon that would have actually given some use to my TM Evo all right well be it is I guess and I priced the dra cloak uh okay so priz dra [Music] cloak priz no energies also have the temple so priz dra cloak priz I can't believe I to Big CH [Music] priz one iono trloak iono uh o wait I priced three Ultra Balls no shot I price yep I priz F troubles all right sounds good all right so we're going to Puff in uh I mean do I really need Trey here with this setup I don't think so I don't think I'm going to go for the Trey going Charmander Pidgey I can't believe that Technical Machine um I mean I'm not even expecting a KO next turn probably Dang if I could get the Charmeleon I'd be like pretty set here all right I think I have to go for the for the other Puffin and just get BS like the only way I get to actually do something could do it with ultra wall at the cost of something but then that would open up the the draw discard I mean I could discard Charmeleon and a fire put them back and then immediately got oh that actually sounds like a plan I'm going to go grab my only Ultra wall in the whole deck that is crazy to say out loud just for be all right TM Evo ratard not the most common strategy you're seeing right now if my opponent knocks out my bbr or my Charmeleon I am pretty dead but hey it's what we have to do right I could have held the hand kept the uh kept the for seal Stone gone for iono feel like this is a little bit like better pressure overall right it's like hey look out opponent I'm trying to do stuff uh this is also where I wish on First St was Prime catcher that would I could potentially knock out linion to start things off and maybe radiant Charizard like starting radiant Charizard is a blessing that I don't know though that ion know is definitely a blessing um but yeah starting rain and Charizard is almost a blessing why because um it's not in range of getting amp to very much so that's pretty good now you should be using capturing Aroma before you play the jet energy my opponent doesn't care and will be able to go read the wind right here not bad all right so the only way I'm doing any significant damage next turn is by finding Professor turo which seems like a very big stretch I also can't really thin out the hand very much at all um yeah I'm just going to give up on the on the Trey going to fail the Puffin bench the Charmander actually I can Retreat this turn right never mind I don't need turo it's going to be costly wait can I yeah I can I can so I'm glad I attached the ratard I mean I needed to I'm glad I discard the Charmeleon so big commitment big energy commitment for sure I already played one superod and um I'm going to lose these three energies right about now all right I'm going to go ahead and collapse stum away my own Lum minion I think that's pretty important and we're going to go ahead and 180 damage the Lugia so not bad not bad that went from what is this hand to all right very costly but we got the attack of now it's very likely my opponent will be able to get l double Arch UPS in play if they thanks to collapse Stadium if they make any sort of Mistake by benching anything else um we don't know if they're the Menino version or just the sorry Cino or Cino Les version of the deck they get the to our Gibs down they don't have space for anything else right I don't have a boss to punish that that gift energy is not a great sign for them yeah all right there is ooh not even going to oh there what all right so the Gap Stadium did so much damage tuen Chino is now gone oh I knew it was Cino that's the third okay never mind there's no cinos worries we've already won this game pretty much and now my opponent evolved I'm hoping they have a stadium in their hand otherwise that was a pretty wasteful evolution but yeah we're pretty good here we took away the three price liability from the iron hands we clearly don't have to deal with cinos at all anymore so we're good I think like we're still at six and six prices but I'm feeling very very confident that we can win this one already right and yeah I mean that's part of the Lugia experience I know a lot of people really like the deack I I also like the deck but it's just the starts the starts are just so so awkward so much of the time it's just like and I mean this of course doesn't account for my point evolving the active which was a a genuine mistake I would say um cuz now he can't uh summoning star you might have forgotten about the collapse Stadium but now uh sorry they can't summoning star and they have to wait for me to get a Koo and now they also have to find another lug Star right not going to play the temple just yet I don't think there's any need now don't get me wrong my hand is pretty bad honestly um I'm hoping I get an Ultra Ball here to unlock my hand he took it Ultra Ball o and the other super was priz so that was actually really really good um price R recover energies for future po po Pokemon what was I going to say for future Pokemon and also for potential recovery but I'm feeling pretty good uh this delay is either my opponent doesn't know what to do or they've Rage Quit honestly it's a 50/50 at this point I mean you have to go with Lugia right you could go in with luminan I actually don't mind that uh you get your double Arch UPS and then you go for it I feel like my opponent should have taken their risk just discard the Lugia hope he hit the varar hope they hit the varar I would have been fine um cuz like if you don't hit at that point the game's over anyways at this point the game's over pretty much and with no cinos to threaten me I'm feeling very confident so yeah I'm pretty sure that promotion means my opponent must have swiped away their app um Rage Quit with command quit or Alta 4 and we're just going to get the win right so I mean this deck that has so many moving pieces ends up somehow working and I feel like clearly we're not learning anything from what the Charizard versus Lugia V matchup Dynamics are right but I feel like in those early hands where things are awkward right how you get the most value out of your cards is super important and I think that's where a lot of games are won or lost in the sense that um making the optimal play and I'm not saying I make the optimal play every single time I make a ton of mistakes in my videos or what not but trying to maximize the value of your cards taking the risk right of going into that b making the uh executive decision to go for that Ultra wall to get the more to get more value out of the TM Evo get more value out of that Charmeleon that I ended up unfortunately drawing getting the B and then risking it right if your opponent gets The Knockout uh on your single Charmeleon you probably not winning that game anyways if you uh go for puff and bench another Charmander and then you're in top Tech mode so you have to take risk sometimes and I think that's uh the biggest takeaway from the second game but anyways hope you enjoyed that's going to be it for this uh Tor rackliff special featuring a Charizard drag Apple deck and I'm thinking about making the other side of the coin which is Michael prad's dragapult charger deck so let me know if that's something you'd be interest interested in watching thanks so much for the support and I'll see you in the next videos bye

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Length: 31min 55sec (1915 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2024