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Learn how to use the best Misty’s Gyarados deck in the current Pokemon Trading Card Game meta and the cards that are crucial to its success.
Misty’s Gyarados is a card that gains power from all the other cards that are designated as Misty’s Pokemon. Therefore, as a single Prize attacker, this card can be used to decent effect in the current TCG meta. However, like all decks that are focused on discard tactics, a Misty’s Gyarados deck may run into trouble if the correct cards are not available near the late game. Especially if there are no options in the player’s hand to retrieve discarded cards.
Pokemon TCG Best Misty’s Gyarados Deck Guide Overview
Misty’s Gyarados decks are built around enabling the titular Misty’s Gyarados to KO the opposing Active Pokemon with its move Splashing Panic. This move costs a single Water Energy. It requires players to discard the top 7 cards of their deck. Splashing Panic does 70 damage for each of Misty’s Pokemon discarded this way.
While it’s highly unlikely that Splashing Panic will deal the maximum possible 490, on average, a damage range of 140 to 210 isn’t out of the range of possibility. To help this happen, the deck needs to be filled with multiple copies of various Misty’s Pokemon.
All Cards in Best Pokemon TCG Destined Rivals Misty’s Gyarados Deck
- Misty’s Magikarp x4
- Misty’s Gyarados x4
- Misty’s Psyduck x4
- Misty’s Staryu x3
- Misty’s Starmie x4
- Misty’s Lapras x1
- Cleffa x1
- Fezendipiti ex x1
- Boss’s Orders x1
- Lana’s Aid x4
- Pokemon Research x4
- Sacred Ash x4
- Super Rod x2
- Buddy-Buddy Poffin x4
- Hassel x1
- Iono x1
- Kofu x1
- Miriam x1
- Night Stretcher x4
- Youngster x2
- Academy at Night x4
- Basic Water Energy x5
- Legacy Energy x1
How To Play This Best Misty’s Gyarados Deck in Pokemon TCG Destined Rivals
Ideal Starting Hand
The ideal hand should have a combination of Misty’s Psyduck, who should be placed in the Active Spot, and Misty’s Magikarp, who should be placed on the Bench. This way, Misty’s Psyduck can be sent to the top of the deck when Magikarp evolves, while Misty’s Gyarados is guaranteed 70 damage at least to start off. Misty’s Staryu and Fezendipiti ex are better off a bit later in this deck.
Key Cards
This is the strategy involved in this deck:
- Get Misty’s Gyarados in a position where it can spam Splashing Panic over and over again.
- Use Misty’s Psyduck to ensure that 70 damage is always guaranteed. Once discarded, use cards like Lana’s Aid and Night Stretcher to retrieve Misty’s Psyduck and re-use them.
- Misty’s Lapras can help find other Misty’s Pokemon with its move Swim Together.
- Misty’s Starmie can be a late-game cleaner, dealing high damage upon evolving.
Performance
Best Matchups
Fire-type decks, especially single Prize ones like Ethan’s Typhlosion, struggle to outpace this deck. The discard-and-draw playstyle of this deck makes it very aggressive upfront, making it harder for slower decks to recover if they lose too many Prizes early on.
Counters to Misty’s Gyarados Deck in Pokemon TCG
None of the cards in this deck have particularly high HP stats in comparison to the modern Pokemon TCG meta (discounting Fezendipiti ex, who is a support card). As a result, a series of back-and-forth exchanges will start where each player knocks out the opposing Active Pokemon. However, even if you win that exchange eventually, barring Misty’s Magikarp, the rest of the cards on the Bench are vulnerable to being sniped from the Bench.
Electric-type decks like Joltik’s Box are great counters to Misty’s Gyarados.
Tips and Tricks
Here are some tips to use this deck well:
- Try to hold onto a pair of Misty’s Staryu and Misty’s Starmie for the endgame, placing Staryu on the field a turn before so that you can evolve it.
- Use the Stadium card Academy by Night to place a Misty’s Pokemon on top of your deck to further boost Splashing Panic’s damage.
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