I experimented with a few non-conventional paradox pokemon decks with some moderate success (though none of them are close to meta) and I thought I would talk about them and maybe other people could try improving on these decks.


For the first deck the idea was to try a fighting ancient paradox deck with an extra energy type since Sada can recover upto 3 different energies. I decided to look at basic fighting pokemon with colourless energy that can synergize with Sandy Shocks which is meant to be the Sada energy recipient. Meloetta fits perfectly here since it boosts fighting damage by +30, so along with a korrina +30 or arena +20 Sandy shocks can hit fairly hard. The gameplan is to try to go Mantyke->Meloetta->Sandy Shocks and then finish with Koraidon and cyrus. The downside though is the lack of flexibility if you can't find the cards you need and I'd often end up losing 3 points before being able to setup the Koraidon finish but this honestly worked better than I expected.


For the second deck the idea was to try a bounded field deck that also works well without bounded field since you can't rely on matchup fishing to win. A future paradox deck with Iron Bundle's water energy and Iron Crown's psychic seemed like a good idea since Mega Lucario and Mega Blaziken are common opponents. Double future booster energy is mandatory so that Crown hits harder even with an empty opponent bench and Bundle's 80+60 combo jumps to 100+80. Starting plains+professor Turo help deny points and have saved me a bunch of times by pulling out a weakened Bundle or Crown. This one is probably the best deck of the three and might have been meta relevant if released two sets earlier, but since every deck has status countermeasures now Bundle's paralysis is a lot less effective.


The third deck was inspired by the Walking wake+Flareon deck but I wanted to see if Wake would work with a water deck instead. Mega Slowbro seemed like a natural pair since both Wake and Slowbro damage the bench so you can pull some fun cyrus shenanigans. The downside here is Walking wake's energy discard which stops you from putting energy on mega slowbro on the bench. The FlareonWake deck works thanks to Flareon's ability and flame patch but to get Mega Slowbro online fast I had to use strange combos like Sada+elemental switch. Its still fun when it works though and I'm a big Slowbro fan so winning with this is very satisfying.

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