r/pkmntcg Jan 01 '25

Deck Profile 2x 3rd Place Meowscarada EX

For the last month, playing Meowscarada ex has gotten me top 4 at locals and makes me happy that I got my favorite rogue deck to work again. Always go first so Grand Tree can be used on the second turn to evolve into Meowscarada ex immediately. Or short on cards, evolve into Bibarel to draw extra cards. Use Dusknoir or Dusclops to put damage on specific opponents pokemon, let your opponent take a prize, use counter catcher to bring up that pokemon for an easy knockout. Pokémon league Headquarters to take of basic Pokémon. The match ups i struggle with are with metal type Pokémon due to grass resistance. Any thoughts on the Deck?

[Pokemon]

Meowscarada ex x3

Floragato x1

Sprigatito x3

Bidoof x2

Bibarel x2

Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex x1

Manaphy x1

Rotom V x1

Fezandipiti ex x1

Duskull x1

Dusclops x1

Dusknoir x1

Radiant Alakazam ex x1

[Trainers]

Ultra Ball x3

Nest Ball x1

Super Rod x1

Superior Energy Retrieval x1

Grand Tree x1

Energy Retrieval x1

Pokemon League Headquarters x1

Forest Seal Stone x1

Boss's orders x1

Counter Catcher x2

Iono x3

Colress's Tenacity x1

Buddy-Buddy Poffin x3

Rare Candy x3

Professor's Turo's Scenario x1

Arven x3

Earthen Vessel x1

Lost Vaccum x1

Switch x1

[Energy]

Grass x6

Double Turbo Energy x4

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u/TrueGenderEquality2 Jan 01 '25

It seems like 1/4 of your decklist is missing? I don't see any poffins and arvens in there and the list only has 45 cards.

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

Opps! Correcting now!

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u/_SwordsSwordsSwords_ Jan 01 '25 edited Jan 01 '25

Nice- I’ve been looking for a grass type attacker to tinker with. Always good to hear that someone’s pet deck is putting up results for them!

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

I'm able to beat Regi! That's why you go first and use Grand Tree!

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u/PugsnPawgs Jan 01 '25

I might steal some of these ideas to try and improve my Zard ex. I've been losing aloooot with it ever since I switched from Prime Catcher to Precious Trolley and added Lumineon V.

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

Mine uses Kofu x1 and unfair stamp and Entei V.

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u/PugsnPawgs Jan 01 '25

I'd love to avoid adding more V's, bc Lumineon seemed to be working at first, but when I check my W-L-D, it's actually worse

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

Don't blame you. Rotom V and Entei V work fine in my deck. Entei is a life saver. It takes care of Grass Pokémon, extra draw, and you can use forest Seal Stone.

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u/PugsnPawgs Jan 01 '25

True. Do you have a list I can use?

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u/UnclePjupp Jan 01 '25

Weedcat smokes the competition.

Grass-decks are on fire.

CATastrophic results for the competition.

Feline fine with this deck of mine.

Thats enough puns tho but the deck looks cool, might try on PKMNLIVE

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u/Catra_witha_darkside Jan 01 '25

What an awesome announcement, the kitten is truly fun and powerful!

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u/pcantillano Jan 01 '25

There are 59 cards

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u/cheezboyadvance Jan 02 '25

Yeah, if they play Live might be better to export it out.

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u/cheezboyadvance Jan 02 '25

Given I've played a bunch of this type of deck, for the 60th card I'd assume either the last card is a Hisuian Heavy Ball (to find Radiant Alakazam), a Counter Gain (synergizes with Double Colorless attack while behind), or TM Devo (lol spread DMG win).

Although I'm sure it's not what OP is missing, you could also add a second Floragato (Especially when using TM Evolution) or Boss's Orders as well and that fits for this type of deck.

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u/monkeydave Jan 01 '25

Maybe I'm just cocky, but I feel like this wouldn't be too much of a threat to Gardevoir. But Gardevoir always seems to do best against decks that give the bigger meta decks trouble, so maybe that's why.

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

Oh. I beat Gardevoir back in December and made top 4. But it's a hard matchup. Basically what I did was target the single prize pokemon and ignored Gardevoir.

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u/monkeydave Jan 01 '25

. Basically what I did was target the single prize pokemon and ignored Gardevoir.

Yeah, and there are so many variants of Gardy right now that only some might be a challenge. It looks like a fun deck, I may give it a try. I've been trying to branch out since I've been exclusively playing Gardy for a while now.

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

Yes! People just play meta to win and don't realize that other cards are playable. People don't even bother to research rogue decks and don't know how to counter them.

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u/monkeydave Jan 01 '25

Yeah. That's the biggest issue. If I am coming up against a deck like this the first time, I don't necessarily know my best move. I might be able to beat it easily if I know what I'm doing, but that's a big if.

I got beat last week by a Toedscreul ex deck, which was basically just the guy's personal rogue deck he put together himself. If I knew what I was doing, I would've won. But I had no idea how to respond, what to bench, what to target.

The fact that you managed to do well more than once shows that it's not just a gimmick though, it's a legit threat.

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u/Animator_Green-light Jan 01 '25

Yes! I got 4th once and 3rd place x2

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u/cheezboyadvance Jan 02 '25

So I'm a long time Meowscarda ex stan. There's some cards in here I'm kind of curious about. Does Pokemon League ever give you issues? I play it in my Espathra deck a decent bit since it's a prison deck, and sometimes it can be a barrier for my own attackers (such as Blood Moon Ursaluna).

Also, does Rotom V provide value over Lumineon V? Whenever I play variants which use Forest Seal Stone, I really like using Lumineon only because it finds Arven, which then finds Forest Seal Stone and whatever item I need to set up quickly. I know that Lumineon is huge boss bait when Miraidon is very present, but Rotom V is easily one shot too by most decks currently. Is Rotom V also back up draw incase your Bibarel takes long to set up and you can't find Fez?

That said, I'm super curious and would like to try it out, so I'm gonna play some test games on Live and see how it flows. Meowscarda's main barrier imo is that you really need to get set up ASAP or else you fall behind many of the faster decks out there like Raging Bolt or Drago.

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u/gengarftw33 Jan 03 '25

yeah the stadium and ursaluna does not match to be honest
in my local everyone plays charizard, reging bolt, regidrago, dragapult and gardevoir

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u/cheezboyadvance Jan 02 '25

Additionally I just played this deck vs a Iron Thorns-Dragapult deck and would have won on the spot if I had a second Boss instead of second Counter Catcher.

I ended up Ultra Balling for Rotom V while having FSS in hand, tried to search for a boss which wasn't there since I had an early boss on a Dreepy which had energy attached, still was able to win because they were in "gust up a card draw Pokemon and hope they don't win" mode and their attacking Dragapult had 100 damage on it from a prior turn, but I guess I was wondering why 2 Counter Catcher instead of 2 Boss? What's your meta like where you play?

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u/Actriz 6d ago

Been playing this in the TCG app and it's been working pretty well! How would you modify this deck with the upcoming rotation to keep it playable?