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Victory - Klawf Terapagos Deck Tech
Recently we saw the excitement and action of the high-stakes Pokémon European International Championship in London. With the Pokémon Regional Championship Stockholm around the corner many Trainers are fine tuning their decks and preparing their teams for the big event. For those who still are unsure of what to play in the current metagame, let’s take a look at the deck that took down EUIC London. Let’s take a look at Ryuki Okada’s Klawf Terapagos deck.
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Alex Kivitz
The All-Star Lineup
Unlike other metagame mainstays like Charizard and Dragapult, you wouldn’t really say Klawf or Terapagos are the “main Pokémon of the deck”. Yes, they both play a big role as being some of the heavy hitters, but each Pokémon in this list seems equally important and all have important functions. This is the mentality that Trainers should have when playing this deck and practicing it for the first time. With that being said, let’s take a look at the namesake Pokémon of the deck.
Terapagos EX functions as one of the heavy hitters of the deck. The deck synergises around Terapagos EX in quite a few ways. The utilisation of Area Zero Underdepths provides a much larger bench to really turn on a lot of the other synergies in deck, and the use of the large bench and Double Turbo Energy turns on Terapagos EX’s Unified Beatdown quite effectively.
Klawf also functions as a heavy hitter with its Unhinged Scissors attack. Initially only dealing 30 damage, this deck’s poison subtheme turns this into an attack for 190. However, with the only energy in the deck being Double Turbos, this attack will often come out for 170 in a vacuum. But this is where the beauty of this deck comes in, and where we will dive into the super effective poison engine that it runs.
Toxic Powder
One of the strongest things about this deck is the powerful poison engine that it runs. This starts off with Brute Bonnet and its Toxic Powder ability. Toxic Powder reads “Once during your turn, if this Pokémon has an Ancient Booster Energy Capsule attached, you may make both Active Pokémon Poisoned”. On it’s own this doesn’t seem too crazy, but the rest of the deck really comes together to maximise this effect. Klawf already wants to be poisoned to get that damage increase in Unhinged Scissors.
On top of that, Binding Mochi allows the attached Poisoned Pokémon’s attacks to deal an additional 40 damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon. Suddenly Klawf’s attacks with the Double Turbo Energy is dealing 210 damage and an additional 10 damage is dealt during Pokémon Checkup due to the poison on the opponent’s active Pokémon.
It doesn’t end there however. Radiant Hisuian Sneasler’s ability Poison Peak puts an additional 2 damage counters during checkup, effectively bringing the poison to 30 damage. But this doesn’t even have to be on an attack. Another feature that makes this deck quite powerful is the ability to take out your opponent’s Active Pokémon on the very first turn. And as we have seen in the EUIC 25 London finals, that’s exactly what Ryuki Okada did.
Brute Bonnet doesn’t have to attack Poison, the opponent’s Active Pokémon. The combinations of Brute Bonnet, Radiant Hisuian Sneasler, and Pecharunt and its Toxic Subjugation ability can outright end games before the opponent has even had a single turn. Toxic Subjugation says “As long as this Pokémon is in the Active Spot, put 5 more damage counters on your opponent’s Poisoned Pokémon during Pokémon Checkup. Now the poison is dealing 80 damage during Pokémon Checkup.
If your opponent only has one Pokémon on the field, the game just ends due to your opponent being unable to move any other Pokémon to the Active Spot. If the game continues, because the opponent’s Pokémon didn’t get Knocked Out on your turn, abilities like Fezandipiti EX’s ability Flip the Script are unable to be used.
If you’re going second, we see the brand new Budew making a name for itself in the deck as well. Attaching a Binding Mochi and having a Radiant Hisuian Sneasler and Brute Bonnet with an Ancient Booster Energy Capsule is also quite the powerful start. Suddenly Budew is attacking for 50 with no energy, the opponent cannot play items on their next turn, and the opponent’s Pokémon is taking an additional 30 damage.
The rest of the team is rounded out by some amazing supporting Pokémon. Pokémon. Lumineon V can search your deck for a Supporter Card and add it to your hand, adding great consistency to the opening turns. Latias EX’s ability Skyliner makes your Basic Pokémon in play have no Retreat Cost. This entire deck is exclusively Basic Pokémon, and this ability really helps get your Pecharunt in the Active Spot when needed, as well as get around some of the high Retreat Costs we see in this deck.
Squawkabilly also adds more gas to your opening turn, allowing you to empty your hand and draw 6 new cards. This deck has a lot of early game potential and the more cards you can use to set up your field the better. Oranguru V also helps in this regard utilizing Back Order to search for 2 Pokémon Tool cards. Pair this up with Forrest Seal Stone and you can fetch any card in your deck using its VSTAR Power. This can also find the much needed Ancient Booster Energy Capsule for your Brute Bonnet.
Fezandipiti is a metagame mainstay as its Flip the Script ability is a great way to dig further into your deck and find the answers you need. Drawing more cards is almost always good in any card game. And lastly we have Munkidori utilizing its Adrena-Brain ability to move damage counters off of your Pokémon onto your opponent’s to heal yours and perhaps even get a cheeky extra knockout.
Tools For Success
There are quite a few Trainer cards in this deck, all with their own unique jobs to make the deck function as optimally as possible. For our Supporters we see Boss’s Orders and Kieran for some great tricks to get the upperhand in attacking. Iono, Professor’s Research and Carmine really help dig through your deck and find the pieces you need to put your engine together. Lastly, we have Arvin and Colress’s Tenacity to find the exact tools and items we are missing, or grab the Area Zero Underdepths and a Double Turbo Energy to swing in with a big attack.
Because our team consists exclusively of Basic Pokémon, we find 4 Nest Balls as they can easily find whatever we need. 3 Ultra Balls help us find Pokémon we may not want to put on the bench right away, and they can help us find Lumineon V which can then start a chain reaction of finding a supporter to find tools to find even more cards.
Switch Cart helps us manage our Active Spot more easily if we don’t have Latias EX out, and Night Stretcher helps get back one of our many Pokémon that exist only as a single copy in our deck if we need to. Our ACE SPEC is Precious Trolley which in optimal circumstances pulls out all the pieces we need right from the start. Hisuian Heavy Ball can come in quite handy if we really need a Basic Pokémon that we know is stuck in our Prize Cards like Pecharunt.
Rounding out our items we have some of our essentials. Ancient Booster Energy Capsule activates Brute Bonnet’s Ability. Binding Mochi adds that extra bit of power to close out games or score some early knockouts. Forest Seal Stone adds even more consistency and flexibility to our game plan.
Finally we have Area Zero Underdepths. Each player with a Tera Pokémon in play can have up to 8 Pokémon on their Bench. This lets us have our full engine of Brute Bonnet, Radiant Hisuian Sneasler, Latias EX, and Pecharunt if needed, while also providing space for out heavy hitters like Terapagos EX and Klawf. The extra room means we can play Lumineon V and not have to worry about it being stuck or taking up space we would rather use for other Pokémon. It’s a lot of great extra flexibility that we can take advantage of.
This deck was really exciting to see in action, and if you want to see the epic finale of EUIC London and watch the deck in action, you can see it here. And if you want to bring this deck to Pokémon Regional Championship Stockholm on March 22nd you can find the full deck list here. We look forward to seeing you all there!
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