Tips to enhance the Mega Gengar Battle Deck?
Hello! I'm looking for some tips from the community.
I've been a pokemon lover since the mania of the late 90's. Revisiting the TCG after 20+ years. I've been an avid player of "Pokemon TCG Pocket" this past year and now am diving into the paper TCG and "TCG Live"
I saw on a not too old Youtube the Charizard/Pigeot (lv3) deck was the better preconstructed to jump into competitive meta. Well my local card shop didn't have that, it was between grimmsnarl and Mega Gengar. I went with Gengar cause I'm a gen 1er and it seemed more fun.
My question is, are there any other cards that would be good to sub in? What would be a good Ace Spec card for this build?
My next step is to maybe just try and buy singles to get a good deck going, would getting the cards for Gholdengo be good? Or would that not be worth it with him on his way out with the new season "mega meta" cycling in?
Also, if I did just buy Gholdengo singles, that would make it tough to get that same deck mirrored on TCG Live because I wouldn't be getting the QR cards with it huh? Any tips on how to handle that?
Thanks so much in advance!
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Cards to consider adding to Mega Gengar:
Fezandpiti EX has an outstanding Ability, so 1 copy is included in every competitive deck these days. It's an automatic include for sure.
Good ACE Specs include Hero's Cape, Unfair Stamp, Secret Box, or Prime Catcher. There's a lot of flexibility, so experiment and pick what works for you.
Other cards to consider might include Mega Sharpedo EX (a solid Stage 1 attacker, works well with Toxtricity), Munkirodi (its Adrena-Brain Ability can move Toxtricity's damage counters onto an opponent's Pokemon) and Technical Machine: Evolution (a great way to find Evolution Pokemon early in the game, and can be searched by Arven).
Gholdengo is a very strong and fun deck, although it rotates out in April sadly. Whether 3-4 months of play is worth the investment is up to you. (If you have friends you play casually with, you might ask them if you can continue using the deck post-rotation to get more value from the cards. But tournament play will obviously be impossible…)
As far as buying cards to play with: buying singles is always the best way, no exceptions. The amount of money you'd have to spend to pull 4 copies of a specific Pokemon EX out of packs is completely unrealistic. So if you're looking for specific cards, then buy singles. Code Cards can be purchased individually too for a fraction of the price of a full pack.
Packs are fun and exciting to open. They're great for if you're into collecting card art. But as far as deck-building is concerned, they don't work very well.
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Thank you so much for the reply!
I grabbed those Ace Spec cards to try out. I also grabbed a "Trainer Toolkit box" to get that Fez and some more trainers to experiment with.
Also, I pulled some munkidori from boosters and that seems like it will go great with the Toxtricity combo.
If you have suggestions for the Rocket Mewtwo or Marnie decks. I'd welcome those as well.
I actually saw in some JP city leagues that they combined Marnie and Mega Gengar into something nice.2
