How will Gardie stay meta-relevant after rotation?

OlderAngel11

I have personally been loving the paradox rift Gardie build:

Pokemon

2 Gardevoir ex SVI

2 Gardevoir CRE

3 Kirlia SIT

1 Kirlia CRE

2 Ralts SIT

2 Ralts ASR

1 Radiant Greninja ASR

1 Zacian V CEL

1 Scream Tail PAR

1 Mew CEL

1 Manaphy BRS

1 Mew ex MEW

Trainers

3 Iono PAL

1 Professor's Research BRS

1 Boss's Orders PAL

1 Worker SIT

4 Battle VIP Pass FST

4 Level Ball BST

3 Rare Candy SVI

3 Ultra Ball SVI

2 Counter Catcher PAR

2 Fog Crystal CRE

2 Super Rod PAL

1 Pal Pad

1 Luxurious Cape PAR

1 Artazon PAL

1 Collapsed Stadium BRS

Energies

10 Psychic Energy

2 Reversal Energy PAL

But most of the important cards in this list will rotate soon: Level Ball, Gardevoir CRE, Fog Crystal, Mew CEL, Zacian V. But Gardevoir ex's ability is just too strong to be completely forgotten. How can this deck survive rotation if the pokemon company (probably) doesn't reprint level ball and battle vip pass? I have been discussing this with user Octowen on another discussion, but I was wondering if the community had any ideas.

nightblitz42

The logic of current Gardevoir decks is to play passively turns 1-2 and use Gardevoir CRE to catch up on the prize race. Without Garde CRE I don't think there's a way for the deck to deal 330 dmg with a 1-prize mon, which makes it difficult to justify any passive early turns... so I figure that pigeonholes Garde into a turbo Rare Candy based strategy, using Psychic Embrace to accelerate onto basic 2-prize attackers like Wyrdeer V, Tera Mewtwo ex, or Luxurious Cape Scream Tail on turn 2. There are a lot of post-rotation tools to support that strategy, such as Arven, Forest Seal Stone, and Squawkabilly ex. But such a strategy doesn't sound especially promising to me, from a competitive standpoint. Energy acceleration is readily accessible to all sorts of decks, so I think high-quality attackers are more important to build around than energy accelerators, and unfortunately all the Regulation F+ psychic attackers so far look really mediocre to me. But maybe I've overlooked something.

OlderAngel11

Well, I agree that Gardie could just go turbo style to try and stay relevant, but one thing I have to point out to you is that some of the attackers you mentioned won't be available. Gardie can only attach energy to other psychic pokemon, meaning that Wyrdeer V and Mewtwo ex are both out. This makes further strategic play even more annoying going forward.