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Learn the best way to use a Great Tusk Deck in the current Pokemon TCG meta to force opponents to discard cards.
Great Tusk works best as part of a “mill” strategy. This involves forcing your opponent to keep discarding cards until they either are forced into an unwinnable position or run out of cards in their deck. While not without its successes, these decks can lack serious damage output and can struggle if their strategy isn’t pulled off flawlessly. That said, when it works, it works really well.
Pokemon TCG Best Great Tusk Deck Guide Overview
Great Tusk’s first move, Land Collapse, forces the opponent to discard the top card of their deck. This amount can be increased by playing an Ancient Supporter card, causing a loss of four cards this way. The rest of the deck is meant to disrupt the opponent both this way and by other means.
All Cards in Best Pokemon TCG Great Tusk Deck
- Great Tusk x4
- Dunsparce x3
- Dudunsparce x3
- Maractus x1
- Fan Rotom x1
- Mimikyu x1
- Professor Sada’s Vitality x4
- Explorer’s Guidance x4
- Xerosic’s Machinations x1
- Nest Ball x3
- Pokégear 3.0 x3
- Counter Catcher x3
- Earthen Vessel x3
- Ultra Ball x2
- Super Rod x2
- Crushing Hammer x2
- Pal Pad x2
- Night Stretcher x1
- Handheld Fan x3
- Ancient Booster Energy Capsule x1
- Artazon x3
- Neutralization Zone x1
- Basic Fighting Energy x7
- Jet Energy x2
How To Play This Best Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG
Ideal Starting Hand
While Great Tusk is great for your first turn, this deck also includes Fan Rotom. This card’s ability works only the first turn and can be used to get multiple Dunsparce, which you can place on your Bench to evolve later.
Best Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG: Key Cards
Here’s the strategy for this deck:
- Great Tusk will start off with Land Collapse, after using an Ancient Supporter like Professor Sada’s Vitality or Explorer’s Guidance to force a higher mill rate.
- Xerosic’s Machinations is another Supporter that can force the opponent to discard cards from their hands.
- Another secondary form of disruption in this deck is by forcing your opponent to discard attached Energy with cards like Crushing Hammer or Handheld Fan.
- Ancient Booster Energy Capsule should be attached to the Great Tusk to increase its longevity.
- Dudunsparce from the Prismatic Evolutions expansion should be used to draw more cards.
- Finally, use Great Tusk’s second move Giant Tusk to deal damage.
Best Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG: Performance
Best Matchups
Decks like Cynthia’s Garchomp ex, which are reliant on specific cards to succeed, can struggle against the Great Tusk Mill.
Counters to Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG
Raging Bolt ex is a relatively self-sufficient Pokemon that can work quickly against Great Tusk. As a matter of fact, most Raging Bolt decks have ways to retrieve discarded Energy, which is the only thing this Ancient Pokemon needs to attack.
Best Great Tusk Deck Guide in Pokemon TCG: Tips and Tricks
Something to consider while using this deck
- Use Maractus in a pinch to deal 60 damage to your opponent if they KO you.
- Neutralization Zone is a useful Stadium card to prevent your opponent’s Pokemon ex from attacking.
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