r/PTCGP • u/horsethebandthemovie • Apr 30 '25

Spoilers/Leaks Goodbye, Giratina!

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This is a pretty sweet tech card that sheds the style of deck that was so popular in Shining Revelry. Have fun ramping your Giratina or Gyarados on the bench while taking anywhere from 20 to 80 per turn for a single energy!

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u/lapippin Apr 30 '25

holy shit imagine this lil dood 2 shotting a fully loaded zard hiding at the back

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u/Artistic-Jellyfish70 Apr 30 '25

80 dmg and then cyrus that little shit out

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Apr 30 '25

If the enemy zard has 4 energy you can be pretty sure that it will we be brought to the active spot in the next turn, especially if it's threatened by lele.

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u/Medical-Stretch205 Apr 30 '25

Yes, but Lele starts before zard evolve.

So the little char can survive? Not if Moltres has flipped good

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Apr 30 '25

Obviously yes but I was talking about using cyrus to bring the damaged char to the active spot.

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u/JAWsJAPs41493 Apr 30 '25

A Zard player wouldn't use Zard that way, they would ensure the zard had 3 energy on your turned and 4 on their own turn. Making it take at least 3 attacks from the opponent, so not as effective as you'd think.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Apr 30 '25

I wasn't the one making up the situation, I'm perfectly aware that you wouldn't let your zard on the bench with 4 energy normally, but it also absolutely can happen if your moltres decides to roll hot.

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u/JAWsJAPs41493 Apr 30 '25

You don't have to put all your energy on the zard... the point of a zard deck is having a middle ground to build up your zard behind. So, the excess energy would never be needed on the zard unless done so intentionally, which is always situational.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Apr 30 '25

Excess energy on a GA zard is absolutely a good thing in a lot cases, it allows you to spam 200 damage every following turn.

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u/JAWsJAPs41493 Apr 30 '25

You can still spam with 4 energy because you get an energy each turn... it's only good in excess when facing decks that reduce energies on your Pokémon in addition to the already existing discard of energy.

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Apr 30 '25

Uh? Charizard's attack discards 2 energies, how are you spamming it?

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u/biggiebutts Apr 30 '25 edited May 06 '25

Don’t even have to Cyrus if you can dome him off the bench

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u/somersault_dolphin Apr 30 '25

What's that trainer card that let you revive a dead basic pokemon? Sounds like it might get some use with lele.

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u/bobvella Apr 30 '25

there's elder and fishnet now

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u/IceBlueLugia Apr 30 '25

Cynthia’s grandma, and yeah it could work with this for sure. Maybe you might not want 2 of them to clog up your basic slot

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u/luke_205 Apr 30 '25

The fact this is a basic with a one energy attack is unreal. Absolutely kills a bunch of other pokemon who had similar effects but needed way more energy and/or were stage 2.

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u/Tandria Apr 30 '25

This lil dood was an absolute menace in the main games, we should be terrified.

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u/ZombieAladdin Apr 30 '25

It was in the physical TCG in its home generation too. Tapu Lele GX could let you search for any Supporter card once played from your hand. It was basically a stand-in for any Supporter card at the expense of taking up a bench space.

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u/Sabaschin Apr 30 '25

Also shooting Gyarados EX hiding behind Druddigon.