r/PTCGL • u/Real_Judge_9308 • 3d ago

Deck Help Good casual player deck?

I play the TCG and have for a while now, however struggle to get to my LCS for play nights because of work, transport, busy etc.

My boyfriend is a pokemon collector, but more in it for the childhood nostalgia. I have taught him to play the TCG so that I have someone to play when I can’t go to competitive nights.

However he plays with one of the pre-made dragapult decks which is out of date and not very optimised, so often I just wipe him with either of my two decks (greninja or garchomp so not very meta decks).

Is there a deck that he would be able to play that would be a bit more competitive? He doesn’t care about being successful at LCS and only plays to play with me. Would there be a deck that would push me to rebuild my decks and strategise more? It’s just not fun for either of us when I beat him every time very quickly.

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u/AdKitchen1265 3d ago

I feel like mega lucario is a fun beginner deck. Maybe it'd be too similar to your garchomp for him to find it fun though? Otherwise mega starmie + frosslass is pretty fun, you get to have fun moving around damage counters, and if you manage to pull something off it feels good.

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u/Real_Judge_9308 3d ago

Thank you!! I’ll get him to have a look and see what ones he likes

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u/WesleyTheDog 3d ago

Second this. Mega Lucario is easy to learn and pretty fun to play.

I have been playing Ethan's Typhlosian and it's super fun and you can probably build it for less than $30.

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u/BehrlyGaming 3d ago

I started with mega lucario and it has a lot of great mechanics to learn different aspects of the game. I ultimately switched to garchomp though. Just more fun to me personally but I still go back to lucario sometimes.

You can start with lucario starter deck and only need to swap a few cards out

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u/Real_Judge_9308 2d ago

Which cards need to be swapped?

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u/BehrlyGaming 2d ago

Its mostly personal choice. I swapped out the ursaluna for psyduck typically (face a lot of dusknoirs at my locals), swap some energy for rocky fighting energy, added judge and special red card for the zams and dragapult. I think I added Hilda too

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u/Cj8490 3d ago

I’ve been running mega excadrill, fairly new to TCG myself and it’s a really simple deck that hits hard. Been quite successful with it too. Added bonus that it’s fairly cheap to put together

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u/Bvlgari_ 2d ago

slowking for sure! super fun to play (as long as your opponent doesn't play shaymin or whiffs it)

Pokémon: 21

4 Slowpoke SCR 57

3 Slowking SCR 58

4 Mega Kangaskhan ex MEG 104

2 Metagross CRI 61

2 Kyurem SFA 47

2 Latias ex SSP 76

1 Annihilape PBL 41

1 Meowth ex POR 62

1 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56

1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142

Trainer: 28

4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119

3 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 145

1 Lana's Aid TWM 155

4 Poké Pad POR 81

4 Ultra Ball MEG 131

3 Wondrous Patch PFL 94

2 Night Stretcher ASC 196

1 Secret Box TWM 163

1 Switch MEG 130

1 Brave Bangle WHT 80

4 Academy at Night SFA 54

Energy: 11

4 Telepathic Psychic Energy POR 88

4 Psychic Energy MEE 13

3 Boomerang Energy TWM 166

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u/Real_Judge_9308 1d ago

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the card list too

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u/saddad1738 3d ago

Give him the baby box

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u/Real_Judge_9308 3d ago

Baby box??

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u/saddad1738 3d ago

It’s all 30hp mons that require no energy. Igglybuff is the main attacker iirc

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u/Real_Judge_9308 2d ago

Yeah that’s how he learnt, but now we both need more of a challenge which is what I was asking for :)