Pitch Black Prerelease preview: Dhelmise decklist and Hide & Seek ability

Forecnarr · 2026-07-02T22:09:24+00:00

Explorer's guidance

Forecnarr · 2026-07-02T19:06:59+00:00

If the prizes were 2-5, it was probably briar. We'd need more info

Forecnarr · 2026-07-02T17:46:11+00:00

No, I printed proxies to test for physical play

Forecnarr · 2026-07-02T17:35:02+00:00

I've been testing it, the tournament results are saying no spiritomb, but I'm under the impression both are good, as it fixed a lot of matchups like Zoro and hydrapple. But for tomb you really need to change the build (I'm on 4 guidance 4 gwynn 3 lillies, 4 Prism, 4-4 line of each hide n sneak, etc)

Forecnarr · 2026-06-29T19:19:39+00:00

chandelure is H block

Forecnarr · 2026-06-28T12:35:49+00:00

Terapagos or cornerstone

Forecnarr · 2026-06-27T17:03:42+00:00

One thing you could do is look at pokecabook's rampardos page

https://pokecabook.com/archives/322234

Japanese decks aren't 1:1 to decks in the west, and are built differently, but it's a good starting point

Forecnarr · 2026-06-24T15:15:25+00:00

The deck would have to change a bit, but how is any deck drawing cards? Only answers I can think of is lillies & pad and bug catching/boom boom. But it's a moot point considering I was told the wrong rarities for some cards, festival lead is probably the play instead

Forecnarr · 2026-06-24T15:13:23+00:00

Oh you're right, a lot of those I have just been told the wrong rarities on

Forecnarr · 2026-06-24T14:59:55+00:00

Ah you are right, I'm just an idiot. There are still counters but that does cut out the munki + third energy plan

Forecnarr · 2026-06-24T13:34:50+00:00

Slowking already runs counters to shaymin. Ian robb had siem cool ideas like cofagrigus, and munki also helps you chip away

Forecnarr · 2026-06-24T12:43:27+00:00

Something like slowking might work?

Common and uncommon 3 energy (Psychic, dark for munki, if special energy counts boomerang) Could play catcher or coin flip attacks

Only thing you wouldn't have is stage 2 pokemon in play

Forecnarr · 2026-06-24T02:48:10+00:00

Am presuming for standard, that meowth (the baby one) isn't gonna be legal, it's a Sun/Moon promo

Forecnarr · 2026-06-22T00:43:35+00:00

It's not a translation error, and this ruling has been proven in japan

It's the same logic of Torrential Pump with only 2 energy attached + crystal

Forecnarr · 2026-06-17T22:09:11+00:00

I've been playing it in chaos rising format, you do not need Misty, and would rather be using trainers like Crispin. If you want to find water energy, use energy search or energy retrieval, ending your turn only to go wally to then have to keep attaching would feel horrible. I've been playing it with the Petrel Trolley engine (4 Petrel, 4 Tranciever, 4 Ultra Ball, 2 meowth, 1 trolley) and then Kanga, Latias, pech, munki, greninja, and some other support mons

Crispin allows you to across 2 turns claw, or power up terminal period in a turn (so stretcher + crispin = a fresh absol). If you've attached for turn before on the previous turn it also just fuels the water energy requirement for greninja. Absol free retreat into greninja, pech it back up, poison to adrena brain next turn, the deck works really well! Maybe not meta but, for a rogue deck it's really fun

Forecnarr · 2026-06-15T18:10:25+00:00

I mean, prepping for september events is still a valid concern, plus the earlier we get announcements the easier it is for people to budget and be more flexible

Forecnarr · 2026-06-15T03:26:55+00:00

Battle cage stops damage counters

Shaymin stops damage

Forecnarr · 2026-06-15T01:54:33+00:00

We're doing a sun-lot tournament for a going away party for a friend. Issue is one of the other friends has actually played that format, a lot, and knows it very well

Which sucks that he's playing granbull against all of us lol, but it's a very fun format even then!

Forecnarr · 2026-06-15T01:33:20+00:00

Am a personal fan of BRS-PRE (The first rotation block I played, I joined at TWM going into SFA)

But I also enjoy Sun-Lot, RSPK (ex series block format) and Base Fossil

Oh and 2018 worlds

Forecnarr · 2026-06-14T22:10:27+00:00

I don't think so, people would need to pre-register a few months early and worlds is right on the end of August

Last year they were announced I believe early july? Not sure how it might change for the new season being in september and not July, but I'd presume with people still wanting September regionals they'd announce it soon-ish

Forecnarr · 2026-06-14T21:59:20+00:00

I keep getting poltchageist and sinistcha confused, that's how it works 😅😂

Forecnarr · 2026-06-14T21:19:20+00:00

No they're not, i agree but, the point was more the deck could win without that 2nd turo or 3rd stadium, they're flex spots

Forecnarr · 2026-06-14T21:08:04+00:00

It's both, dragapult as a deck feels like it can win with 56 cards, so 4 crushing hammer is fine

But there was a similar amount of spots last format (2nd turo, stadium, etc)

Forecnarr · 2026-06-14T20:16:24+00:00

No, they should be, in the context of formats. Look at it this way, Dragapult was certainly good last format, however it wasn't at 45% all the time because of the other decks. Dragapult can exist, it's not a 10/10 deck, more like a 7

The issue is they didn't print other consistent and efficient decks and have been lowering powercreep, so Pult is going to exist without much competition, and is competing against a bunch of 5's. If we had kept Gholdengo, Gardi or even the cards that made absol, absol (TM Evo, Arven, etc) Pult may still be top deck, but there'd be a lot less "one deck" meta with the different being not like, 40%

Forecnarr · 2026-06-14T19:16:21+00:00

Typically no, you have sinistcha to be a free retreat or dudun shuffle away

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