Pokemon TCG: Best Great Tusk Deck Guide

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 this deck usually can struggle with consistency, the Mega Evolution expansion has provided this deck a lot of useful cards. This includes the pair of Lunatone and Solrock which work as a draw engine as well as the card Fighting Gong to get a Basic Pokemon or Energy.

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 the Ancient Supporter Professor Sada’s Vitality causing a loss of four cards this way. The rest of the deck supports Great Tusk by drawing enough cards through Lunatone’s ability Lunar Cycle or by using the new Fighting Gong to get the cards you need.

All Cards in Best Pokemon TCG Great Tusk Deck

• Great Tusk x4
• Lunatone x2
• Solrock x2
• Flutter Mane x1
• Psyduck x1
• Professor Sada’s Vitality x4
• Iono x2
• Boss’s Orders x1
• Pokégear 3.0 x4
• Nest Ball x4
• Counter Catcher x4
• Fighting Gong x4
• Night Stretcher x3
• Pal Pad x3
• Earthen Vessel x2
• Accompanying Flute x2
• Sacred Ash x1
• Tool Scrapper x1
• Gravity Gemstone x2
• Artazon x2
• Neutralization Zone x1
• Basic Fighting Energy x10

How To Play This Best Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG

Ideal Starting Hand

Having Solrock and Lunatone in your hand early on is great. This will help you set the board for Great Tusk 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 to force your opponent to discard four cards from the top of their deck.
• Solrock and Lunatone are a new pair of cards that work well as a support. When both are in play Lunatone can use its ability Lunar Cycle to discard a Basic Fighting Energy from your hand to draw three cards. Solrock in turn can act as a decent lead to deal 70 damage when Lunatone is in play.
• Fighting Gong will help you find a Basic Fighting Energy or one of the Basic Fighting Pokemon in this deck.
• Accompanying Flute will help you disrupt your opponent by filling their Bench with Pokemon that they might not want to play at that moment.

Best Matchups for a Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG

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:

• Neutralization Zone is the ACE SPEC of choice for this deck. It is a useful Stadium card to prevent your opponent’s Pokemon ex from attacking.
• Psyduck is here to prevent cards like Dusknoir and Forretress ex from KOing themselves via their ability.
• Flutter Mane can help disrupt the opponent by preventing all Abilities from being in play as long as it is in the Active Spot.

FAQs about Great Tusk Deck in Pokemon TCG

Are There Other Cards That Work Well With Great Tusk?

Supporters like Eri and Xerosic’s Machinations can help mill more cards. Other Ancient Supporters like Explorer’s Guidance are options as well.

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