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How’s it goin’ PoTown Store readers? It’s me, Zach Lesage, and I’m here with another article to help you out. As a Players Cup Champion myself, my goal for this article is to showcase the best decks from the recent Players Cup 3 Global Finals! The event featured many powerful decks from our most recent Pokémon TCG Online set, Battle Styles, and it featured many top players. In the end, Azul Garcia Griego (@Azul_GG) won the whole event with his broken Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX (Battle Styles) deck, and Pikachu & Zekrom-GX (Team Up) came in second. Let’s look at these top-performing decks!

What's poppin’ PoTown Store readers? Have you been checking out all of the new cards that are going to be released in Chilling Reign? I’ve certainly been drooling over the new cards that have been revealed via Twitter and other Pokemon TCG blog sites! This article will share my early ideas for the Galarian Bird Trio (Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres) and my general thoughts on these exciting cards! I plan on doing a more formal top five video closer to release, but this is an extra early sneak peek into my mind! A huge shoutout goes to the translators at Pokebeach for the translations used in this article. That being said, let’s get it!

What’s going on, Trainers? The dust has settled after a few weeks of playing Pokemon online, and it seems a few decks have really situated themselves high at the top of the tier list. Namely, Victini V, ADP, and Rapid Strike Urshifu decks seem to be doing the best, with the odd Decidueye winning some events where people were unprepared. With ADP being the unofficial “best deck in the format,” we find old answers coming back into the format in an attempt to take it out (such as Pikarom and Eternatus). As far as I can see, there’s a lot of room for creativity in the standard format, and really any deck can win a tournament right now with the right amount of luck on your side. That’s why I wanted to talk about a deck that has undeniable strength right now, Mad Party. Gaining Level Ball, this deck is easily the most aggressive deck that standard has seen in a while and can hit for hundreds of damage on a single Prize Card attacker. The deck is fairly cheap and doesn’t take a lot of PTCGO codes for a beginner to create either! Let’s hop into why I think the tides are turning in favor of the Mad Party.

Hi everyone, my name is Joshua Vanoverschelde, also known as ZapdosTCG, and today we will talk all about Victini VMAX! As you all know, it is a wonderful and underrated card from Battle Styles. After a couple of weeks, Victini VMAX seems to be winning more than any other VMAX archetype out there. Why? That's what we're gonna be talking about today.

What’s up, PoTown readers?? Battle Styles has been out for about a week now, and I’ve had my fair share of time to test most of the new decks. While some of my other articles might feature Pokemon TCG cards that may require a handful of PTCGO code cards, this article has a bunch of cheaper decks to build. Some of the coolest decks don’t need to cost a whole bunch, like Primeape (Battle Styles), and they can compete with a lot of the best decks in the format. This article aims to share my favorite budget decks that are rocking out in the Battle Styles Pokemon metagame and let you know why they are so awesome! That being said, let’s hop into Weepinbell (Battle Styles) / Salazzle (Battle Styles).

Hi all, I’m Joe Bernard, one of the OmniPoke Youtube Channel members, which is focused on producing competitive TCG content. I rediscovered pokemon in 2009 and have been playing and collecting ever since. I have also been involved in Commentating National and International Championships for TPCI since 2016. 

Battle Styles is upon us, and that means that new decks are coming. Many Players will quickly recognize that Battle Styles brings a lot of competitive edges that’s been incredibly necessary to our current standard format. With the release of Battle Styles, we will see a drastic change in the metagame that, hopefully, will be a positive shift toward a bright future. 

Lucario and Melmetal Tag Team GX (LucMetal) combined with Zacian V and Zamazentais a force to be reckoned with on the online scene. After winning the first Player’s Cup, it went on a tear online getting various cosigns from top players – the main strength of this deck is the high skill ceiling it can have. As a LucMetal player, you tend to play very methodically and slow the game down to a hault. Hiding behind Lillie’s Poke Dolls, you can buy yourself infinite amounts of time just using Zacian’s Intrepid Sword ability to attach extra energy, and draw into extra resources. Reducing damage is something that is always good, but this deck is arguably the tankiest one in the entire format – decks are going to have an extremely hard time taking down most of the Pokemon in this deck once you place some damage reduction buffs on them. I could talk about LucMetal all day, but let’s dissect what really makes this deck tick, and what the strategy is. Without further ado, let’s talk about LucMetal Zacian today!

Much like most schools, there’s many different cliques. There’s the cool kids, the smart kids, and jocks, and the geeks; in this case, a new kid just came into town. You guessed it, that new kid is Excadrill! Being brought to the scene by Sander Wojkic, the control master, he capitalized on his Player’s Cup II qualification with this deck that packs a surprise factor on the ladder! Excadrill is always something that has seen play in the Tier 3 bracket, but as of lately it’s been making a splash in an effort to counter some of the top dogs in the metagame – mostly Pikarom and Eternatus. Before Vivid Voltage is set to release, this Excadrill is probably the best Fighting-type attacker besides Marshadow and Machamp Tag Team GX, mostly due to its efficiency for being able to attack for a single energy. Being a 1-Prize attacker means that the game also will go on for longer than most other matchups, and gives the opponent less of a reward for getting a couple speedy KOs on our Pokemon. Today, we’re going over all things Excadrill.