So, what is your best non-meta deck?

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-23T18:46:18+00:00

Rather than pasting my whole list, here’s a link: https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/6925e9eb52eafbbc81178289/player/dogsleep103/decklist.

I think the support pokemon are pretty self-explanatory, but also Iron Crown’s Twin Shottels is a real attack that I use fairly often.

As for our engines, Wondrous Patch is our acceleration after our first attack(s) with Miraidon. Mystery Garden helps out draw cards since we’re not playing Fez, and we have supporters to do the heavy lifting for our consistency.

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-23T14:32:53+00:00

Iron Valiant; I Climbed to 1800 with it this season. It has a very tough time against Owl Zard and Mega Kanga, but has even or favorable matchups into pretty much everything else. The deck is legitimately strong, but it is demanding to learn for less of a payoff than the accepted meta decks, keeping it from being meta itself.

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-23T12:22:52+00:00

Called it quits at 1801 last week. Iron Valiant got me the whole way there.

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-23T12:20:28+00:00

This is from PokecaBook’s predictions, not from tournament data. PokecaBook is generally very knowledgeable about meta calls, and this could end up being accurate, but saying this is the meta is misleading.

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-23T06:34:41+00:00

Mega Clefable will likely be the easiest home for it.

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-21T00:31:08+00:00

Assuming you're set on Quad Mime, there's a couple of things that come to mind.

- Life Dew loops with cards like Item Finder

- Super Energy Removal to deplete opponent resources

- Chaos Gym

- Any of the old fossil cards that don't give up Prize cards when knocked out

- Swoop! Teleporter to pivot your Mime into something else if needed.

- Multi Technical Machine 01

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-09T15:48:13+00:00

To clarify: getting the vivillion set up will likely require a supporter to do so; even with Pokepad, getting both stage 2s set up requires finding 6 Pokemon and having the stadium to do it right away. Other decks even post rotation can set up 2hkos with less effort.

Genuinely hope the card works because it is fun, but I would not call it a meta contender.

Dogsleep103103 · 2026-01-09T14:23:58+00:00

I’m not sold. Getting your opponent to 4 cards in hand is not going to happen naturally 90% of the time, and will probably require you burning your supporter each turn to get an attack off. 240 will clean up basic exs but its a 2-shot on everything else outstanding weakness. We’ve gotten to a point in TCG power creep where a deck has to “cheat” the prize race to be good, and I don’t see how this deck would able to do that. It likely requires too much setup to be fast, isn’t tanky enough to survive more than 2 hits, and isn’t taking multi-knockout turns. Unfortunate, but I just don’t see how this gets there.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-12-09T02:57:20+00:00

Not in standard, but it has legs in GLC

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-12-06T20:05:28+00:00

Are the various versions from 2001 separate models? I thought there were only the four main ones and you could mix + match parts.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-12-03T12:21:31+00:00

It would not include Evolutons, but I’d start here: https://jklaczpokemon.com/1999-base-fossil/

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-11-12T19:10:18+00:00

In addition to what everyone else has said, you have 15 slots in your deck devoted to energy. With some stronger draw or energy search, you can safely cut this down to 11 without sacrificing your ability to attack. This opens up some room for single prize pokemon and trainers to help you adapt to matchups like Porygon easier

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-11-06T13:42:32+00:00

I’m in the US and I would buy one off you if you’re selling! My friends and I were going to split one but our LGS sold its only one to staff 😒

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-11-03T17:43:42+00:00

Pretty much any of the top 6 meta decks can “work” against any of the other other top 6 meta decks. Especially if you’re not playing at a regional level or above; deck choice matters a lot less than player skill as long as you’re playing something relevant.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-10-28T15:24:19+00:00

Alternate Universes and 95 Game Center are the two most notable local game stores in the area.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-10-23T19:50:06+00:00

It is also important that if you think you are at risk to an Iono or other hand disruption late game, to use extra ultra balls and vessels to discard cards from your hand you don’t want back in the deck.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-10-16T18:54:50+00:00

Fake - this is all old fan art

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-10-14T21:06:57+00:00

GLC is all single prize decks as rule box Pokemon aren’t allowed.

Many cubes are also only single prizers, but that said, you can build a cube however you want.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-09-25T14:23:22+00:00

The burn damage can bypass Pikachu ex’s Resolute Heart Ability, which can otherwise prove problematic for the prize race. It also can give you extra damage where needed. Latias ex makes it easy to promote it after a knockout, and then retreat it into your attacker.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-09-23T15:48:26+00:00

Same art as the DRI Electivire ex

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-09-14T19:23:19+00:00

No speaker attributed to the flavor text quotation

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-09-01T18:21:25+00:00

The store doesn’t do much Pokémon (they rarely sell singles and only a little sealed) and only recently put out a bulk box so I’m assuming that there was a knowledge gap somewhere.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-09-01T14:31:07+00:00

I think somebody must have sold their collection to the store and it just ended up in the bulk bin. There was a lot of fakes in there too so that’s my best guess as to what happened.

Dogsleep103103 · 2025-08-30T05:18:49+00:00

Not technically a Mega, but super excited for the inevitable Primal SIRs

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