#292 Pitch Black GLC Decks!

Foreign. Welcome to the Metapod podcast. The Pokemon TCG podcast for almost 300 episodes now revolves around the evolving matter. We're coming up on 300 here in like the next two months or something like that, you know, as probably like what, seven or eight episodes left. Yu-Gi-Oh I always. I know we're in the 290s. I just. We've been doing this for so long that, like, it. The episode number doesn't matter to me anymore. It's just the Metapod, you know, the. The newest episode. But Sean, how are you doing this week? I'm good. I'm good. I had a pretty chill weekend. I didn't do any tournaments or anything for. Or any pre releases for anything for the first time in three weeks. So I was gonna say you didn't even. You didn't even play in like a local or anything? No, no, I just stayed home and I made a video for Riftbound and that was about it. About a. It's my fourth, I think, infinite combo video that I've made and I'm like, I need to stop doing infinites because you are now the infinite combo guy in Riftbound. Just figuring out all the infinite loops, that's. I'm the worst. I'm the worst, Yu-Gi-Oh terrible. It's so many people are like, this is why I don't like the game. And I'm just like, I get it. I don't. I don't know, man. I don't know why I keep being drawn to making these stupid videos. But Yu-Gi-Oh it's just fun, right? It's. It's like interesting content of like, Yu-Gi-Oh this is a cool. Even if it's not like. Because a lot of the times the infinite loop is not the best thing in the game. Right? Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Like, it's. It's a. It's a combo that is very, very difficult to get off. But it's like, it's really cool and feels good to get off. Right. Like, you feel accomplished and you feel like, man, I'm gaming right now and I feel. I feel uniquely suited to it because unlike other games, I think Pokemon we've talked about, like, you know, oh, Pokemon players, whether or not they're like, skilled or not skilled. I think there's different skills for different card games. But I think Pokemon players in particular, if you play it a long time, you get very good at sequencing. Right? Yu-Gi-Oh And I think that these infinite decks are particularly rewarding for the Pokemon player because it's like, I've learned, I've Learned Jake proper sequencing technique. And that's all of these decks are all about sequencing of like when do I play this card? When do I, you know, to maximize. If only. If only I could have gotten Sean on Pido or rangaru control in 2019, you know, ultra Prizm to Cosmic Eclipse format. I. What did I play? I didn't play a. Maybe I did. I played the control deck that had the Articuno Ex for like two months. You played a Rangaroo? Yu-Gi-Oh I did. I don't remember you playing. It was me and one friend of mine. Pep and Pep, if you're watching Shout. Yu-Gi-Oh but it was me and a friend of mine that got on it. And like of our group, we were like, you know, a couple of the, you know, slightly better Pokemon players of our group. Not. Not the best. But we were on it, man. And we were terrorizing locals for a solid three weeks. It was. It was nonsense. No. Well learn something new every day. Yu-Gi-Oh I guess. But Jake, you had a very exciting weekend. I had a crazy just week in general. Well, it's kind of Pokemon related. Trust me. Trust me. I'll tie it together here. You'd be surprised. So Chainsaw man and Union arena opened up this week. So I did that first. I opened a lot of boxes. For anyone who does not know Chainsaw man is an anime. Do not recommend it if you don't like blood gore action Beckett stuff. It's definitely not family friendly. It's definitely adult oriented. But it's one of my favorites because it's crazy. But one-of-one so that came out. So I was pretty excited to build the deck. But I got invited to at Gen Con. I was at Gen Con this weekend for a quick one day trip. I went to Gen Con for the Naruto card game with Bandai Demo instruction. I got a creator invite. So I went over there. I'm rocking the T shirt today of the Naruto card game. Does the T shirt say coming in 2027 on it too? No, it does not. Okay. Everything else did. Even the play mat. And I was like, Yu-Gi-Oh So for anyone who doesn't know Bandai is releasing a Naruto card game in the summer of 2027 and so they demoed it. They had demo decks at this at Gen Con and they were instructing people on how to play and things like that. It's very, very interesting. Just a short synopsis of the game. It feels like Old School Yu-Gi-Oh Gi oh. Yu-Gi-Oh For anybody who played Old School Yu-Gi-Oh Gi oh is very similar to that in the inspiration to it very different from Pokemon as most other games are. I think Pokemon is very unique in its game and what it does after playing so many other card games. But it was, it was really cool and I'm excited to, to see more as more information comes out. But again, that is summer 2027. So that is literally like almost a year away. It's a little less than a year away, but who knows if they'll do something Like Gundam. Like Gundam. Before the release, the, the release of the first set in the starter decks they had like these preview kits. They were called beta kits that they released out to the public. So who knows if Bandai will do it again with Naruto, things like that. I mean there's already a sim where people have taken all the cards. There's three, there's three sims. Oh my gosh, there's three simulators. I recommend Ninja Sim which is the one made by the guy who made the one piece simulator and is a personal friend of mine and I know how hard he works. There we go. I know he's done a great job with it. But there's, Yu-Gi-Oh there's, there's a, there's a. What is the. It's an industrial revolution. Well fan made simulators. There's also like, I think there's like two or three Riftbound Sims too. So we're well into the era when a new card game releases. Everyone wants their little piece of the, I don't know, content creator, slash whatever. Sphere developer. Yu-Gi-Oh because there's only so many chances you get when, when a games have come out in the past, right. Like to be the, the next Sarah Bee, to be the next Poke beach, to be the next, you know, whatever. And so when a new game comes out you're like okay, if I can establish this early, I can have a thing and I get it man. The FOMO is real. But three Sims, when all you have is like is demo cards and it's crazy too. So like in, in Naruto. So like I promise I'll tie this into Pokemon in a second because I, I, it genuinely does tie. Trap cards are coming to Pokemon. That's Jake's. No, but so they showed us a bunch of alternate arts of the game and I got to hold the alternate arts and look at them and it was, it was really cool. Like I have photos and videos like of it that I'll share like in a YouTube video on my channel and I'll post it in the discord when I post it for anyone who's interested in the non game section or non Pokemon game section of the Discord. But what's really interesting about the alternate arts is they're all like vanillas. And if you don't know what that is in the. In the. In the sense of like Bandai card games is, think of a. Think of a Pokemon that you put in that only has like one that only has one attack, doesn't have abilities. Right. Just has one like very generic. Like call for family. Yu-Gi-Oh Call for draw one. Like one of those. Yu-Gi-Oh Like just a. Just a very basic Pokemon tackle for 10. That's the most. Very, very. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Like simple. It's a very simple Pokemon or, or a card. But most all the cards in the demo had card effects like abilities or things of that nature in some form or fashion. But the alternate arts also didn't have card numbers on them. You know like how. How Pokemon cards have card numbers on them where it's like 172 out of 272 or whatever. The Naruto cards didn't have card numbers on them. So it makes me think that they printed alternate arts without the card effects and the card numbers to show off in the demo to. As time goes on. Eventually they'll show the Akira Gawa alternate art with this sort of card effect or the Peach Momoko card art with that card effect. And, and especially like I mentioned, Akira Gawa. A lot of you probably know who that is because Akira Ga was a incredible illustrator who does a ton of work with her art in the Pokemon card game. It's not confirmed that she does Naruto, but they showed in art that I am almost positive is her art because, you know, her art is just that recognizable. It looks just like the Boa Hancock art. No, no, that's Peach Momoko. Oh, oh, sorry, sorry. Yes, you're talking. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Peach Momoko. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Akira Gawa. They did a Naruto and I. You're pretty sure Nine Tailed Fox. Yu-Gi-Oh pretty sure she did that. But anyways, how am I. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Tying it all to Pokemon. I promise we'll get into Pokemon stuff here. So it was funny because in the creator demo you did the demo with other creat haters. Right. It was just specific to people who were invited because they handed out the like alternate arts. The. The high rarity stuff of there. It was not handed out. If you got a normal demo ticket to Gen Con, you weren't able to get that luxury. And the person who I did the demo with is Joe Brown. Sean, do you know who Joe Brown is? No. Joe. Joe Brown is one of the Pokemon VGC commentators that regularly does the Pokemon Championships. So Joe Brown and I, I know that Joe is very into card games as well, even though he does like Pokemon vgc because we've talked a little bit about like commentary because I've done professional commentary for card games as well and, and stuff like that. So it was actually really cool as mutuals to finally meet like face to face and you know, have, have Pandora as we're playing each other because we were, we were matched up in the demo and we played like some extra games on top of that. So it was really, really cool to see Joe, you know, a Pokemon guy be introduced in Naruto. So, Yu-Gi-Oh that's how it ties to Pokemon, you know, was just really, really cool. And I like Joe. He's a nice guy and really, really cool. And it was really cool also because he's, like I said, a VGC guy, knowing he's so into. Into card games as well. Yu-Gi-Oh that's. That was a good tieback. I like that. The little segue right back. You know, he took a hard. It had a, had a real tieback. I'm sure there was a lot of people that doubted me that I would be able to actually tie it back, but no, that's a real tie back. Well, today's episode about Pokemon is going to be mostly about glc. We're going to go through. There was a GLC tournament at Full Grip Games a couple of weeks ago now like two or three weeks ago. But we're going to go through the top decklist for each typing until we get to a certain point. We're not going to go through every typing, but for the top, I think six or seven typings, we're going to go through the decklist and just talk about GLC while we sort of wait for a new season to kick off, while we wait for Worlds. But before we do that, Jake, I just wanted to shout out that you absolutely nailed it on the prediction for the Chinese figure collection we talked about. I think a week ago maybe that the Chinese figure collection was coming out, there would be an Eevee set. And we were speculating on what the full art one would be. And you called it. You were like, it's probably Eevee. It would be weird if it wasn't. And that was revealed today. It is Eevee. It is the full art Eevee that I think allows you to evolve on the same turn. It comes into play. Right. And it's the Illustration Rare that came in the Pokemon Center ETB for Prismatic Evolutions. Yes, I believe the set was. I think it was Prismatic and it's got a very cute little figure here. You know, it matches the art. And so Yu-Gi-Oh this would be. If you're planning on buying these, this would technically be your chase. Right. So one of the things that's really interesting and I don't know. Oh, oh, okay, okay, okay. So previous sets of this. So this is the third series for anyone who does not know, I'll repeat. You know, they had the. The Gang, the Mo, the Machoke which was the secret rare, I guess you could say. And then the wailord in the second set they. I forgot about this. They came previously with two packs of a set in. In Chinese. But this one is only going to have one pack in it because it is coming with Pterostal Festival. Oh, you get a high class pack this time. Yu-Gi-Oh But it's interesting that you only get one because the other ones had two in it. So it's kind of a little trade off there. And then the Eevee, this one is going to be more common than the other ones. It is confirmed as Poke beach is saying, the. The previous sets you could get the secret rare for 1 and 143 chance. So pretty rare I would say. But the Eevee is actually going to be one in 80. Okay. I mean I guess it makes sense because also I think Terastal Festival and some of the others are smaller sets. So there's only so many cards that you can represent. But Yu-Gi-Oh it is nice to know that if you are, you know, either looking to buy this on the secondary market or whatever. One in 80. Look, it's still Eevee. It's still going to be priced like a fan favorite Pokemon. But 1 in 80 is like I think. I don't know if that's fifth. That's 100. It's much easier to pull versus 1 in 143. Yu-Gi-Oh it is. It is much easier to pull in essence. So if you buy any of these, make sure to let us know in the Discord server. I personally hope to get Flareon. I think Flareon looks really, really cool with the. With the art and the fire kind of like jumping up and spitting on fire. I think it looks awesome. But if I'm able to get these, I don't know, they might have a premium tax on them. So moving in now to the main topic glc. We don't have any more news? Because there is no more news right now. Is the. Is the downtime of Pokemon right? There's no cups, there's no challenges. There's maybe some other tournaments like, you know, 1Ks or things like that. But for the most part, everybody is just prepping for the World Championships happening in three weeks now. Is it three weekends or four weekends from now? Yu-Gi-Oh something like it might be four. It's the end of the month that Worlds is happening. So we got a little bit of time. We'll talk about our predictions for Worlds, what we think is going to do. Well, stuff like that in a later episode, right? Not right now, but we are going to be going into GLC because now is a lot is a time during the. The. The resting time for most players to try out other formats, to have fun in other ways that's not just, you know, grinding cups and challenges and standard and things like that. And GLC is a fan favorite. Yu-Gi-Oh So there was a ban list recently. Couple of cards I think got hit. But one in particular, Dimension Valley Psychic has been pretty good in GLC for the whole time it's existed. I think if you know much about the history of Pokemon, I don't think it would be a surprise to you that Psychic is good because it just. There's so many interesting archetypes and play styles and like, I feel like Psychic is one of those colors that's where Pokemon really experiments and like kind of turns their dials in like lots of funky ways. And that usually makes the decks very versatile because you can get Psychic decks that have gardevoir like effects in theory, maybe not in glc, but in theory, gardevoir like effects where you're accelerating energy from the trash or you're accelerating energy from your hand, but you can also get spread effects that get around lots of other, you know, anti damage effects. You can get decks like Ultra Necrozma that really care about special energy. So it's hard to pin down, I think what Psychic is just as a whole archetype and I think that's what makes it generally pretty strong. So they tried to make it less strong. Now the question is, Jake, did they succeed? So the bandless ended up getting in effect on April 20, 2026. So players have had some time to cook up. And so taking a look at the full grip breakdown, they had a $3,000 tournament that was on there. And we'll leave in the. I'll put. I'll post this in the discord and I'll post this in the show notes, we'll leave a link to Ben Morse's website. Ben Morris has not only the meta breakdown of the amount of each deck, but also placements, decklists and also links to the live stream. If you want to go check that out because it's. It's a pretty good live stream. It was on Tricky Gym, so you know, it's pretty good production things of that nature and showcase some good games. But Sidekick was the most populous deck in the room of the. What was it, 120 players that they had over on July 19th. A couple weeks ago, Sidekick was 25.8% of the room and no other deck touched 20%. But there were a few decks that were over 10% hit the double digits, including colorless at 19.2%, fighting at 16.7% and water at 14.2%. Yu-Gi-Oh pretty, pretty clear break, you know, break point there between what people generally consider to be the best color and. And archetypes build around, which is psychic colorless fighting and water. And right now what is not very strong seemingly, which is all the other colors and surprisingly grass. I think that's one. When we were looking at these results and we were like, really like grass is. You know, every time that I've played it, it seems quite strong. But Yu-Gi-Oh you know, surprising Grass historically. Grass historically has always been good in glc. It feels like out and really it hasn't been touched by anything in the ban list. Right. Besides Forest of Giant Plants. Right. Which was banned pretty early in the. In the GLC community, but in 2022. But Yu-Gi-Oh it's really interesting to see grass not be prevalent. If you want to see the highest placing grass type. We'll go over a decklist later, but it's 32nd so just edged out top 32 in there. And the list looks a lot different. But the decks that did dominate though in this tournament that were very prevalent more than any other deck was Colorless and Sidekick. So Sean, let's go over colorless first. Jesse Parker ended up winning it with two cannon and hops as the deck list. Yu-Gi-Oh my. You know what, Jake, my favorite card from Pitch Black at this point to Canon, you know, Fruit Loop himself, the. The. The Bird, if you don't remember, for some reason it has the ability once during your turn you can draw a card which is amazing in glc. Just free card draw is always important because you don't really have as many tools to set up generally. But it's free card draw on a Pokemon that has a very valid attack right. It's 150 hp and you're going to be doing 60 plus 20 for each bench Pokemon. And that, that adds up, especially in GLC. Like if everyone has a full bench, 260 for one energy in GLC is crazy. That's an attack. I mean it is very common in GLC to have a full bench. It is kind of just practice to have a full bench of like support Pokemon, backup attacker, you know, things of that nature. And even with something like Parallel City, right. Which is most common in most all decks. I accidentally deleted Parallel City. Sean, can you get the wording? Because I can't spell parallel. It says choose which way this card faces before you play it. Probably one of the most interesting stadiums that we've gotten in the past. And then any damage done by a pack by attacks from blank and it points to whatever way the stadium is facing. So you can choose to either make it so that your opponent's grass, fire or water Pokemon damage is reduced by 20, or you can make it so that the player that it's pointing at can't have more than three benched Pokemon and then they discard down to three. So usually people use it such that it just, you know, they have to discard a bunch of their bench. So if you're, if you're confused of what that is. Parallel City is a stadium. When you play down, you can put it any which way it's facing and based on who it's facing and does the different effects. But Yu-Gi-Oh Parallel City, even when you put your opponent's Pokemon to three benched, that's still eight bench Pokemon in the way of Feather Rondo, which is doing 220. Yu-Gi-Oh 220. Which crazy again is knocking out most all non rule box Pokemon within the format and just doing like really, really good damage. So Toucan, an excellent, excellent option, especially when you have something like Fan Rotom in the deck as well. For Colorless, to be able to find three Pokemon of colorless with 100 HP or less and you can find so many good Pokemon. Picky Peck, Trumbeak. For that Evolution line, you can find Minccino and Cincinno. Right? For that make dude Trash one draw two Bib or Bidoof. Right? To be able to get ready for Bibral to draw until you have five cards in hand, you got Skwoven. That works very synergistically with Bibarrel. Bibaro. Yu-Gi-Oh whatever. It's Yu-Gi-Oh To be able to do that. You can find the Wooloo to set up Pokemon, it is just. There's so much good setup, I think, in colorless and be able to get all of these draw effects. Like, we talked about so much draw Pokemon right there, and that didn't even. That didn't even count. Instruct Orangaroo from Sun and Moon Base. To be able to draw until you have three cards in your hand is pretty wild. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, the nice thing about a deck like this, in a lot of GLC decks, you might run into Pokemon that are pretty old. Right. Like, so it might be hard to, like, find them or whatever. I think every single Pokemon in here, including the Greedent. I think every single Pokemon in here came out while you and I have been playing the game, which is kind of crazy. Well, Rangaroo is Sun and Moon Base set. We weren't playing. It was legal when we. Yu-Gi-Oh but. But it wasn't. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh it was. It was around when we first started playing. And it's honestly not that hard to get, in my opinion, in case you. It has many different versions. It has a gold version, I believe. Pretty neat. It has a shiny version as well. Has stamped. Yu-Gi-Oh A stamped version of it, or. No, no. Does that oranguru have an Illustration Rare? I don't think so. I think it's a different Orangaroo that you're talking about. Maybe I'm misremembering, but. Yu-Gi-Oh But anyways, it's a whole. It's a whole 48 cents. Yu-Gi-Oh Right. To. To get the card. And I think that's one of the biggest challenges, I think, with GLC is, like, oftentimes, especially, like, the trainer cards, people might have them because people play expanded and people. People play all these. But it's really like the really weird Pokemon that sometimes I think can be some of the hardest cards to find, even on things like TCG Player. So the fact that all these Pokemon are from within the last seven years. You know, frankly, any store that's been around for that long that offers bulk or whatever, they might just have all of this. Just. Yu-Gi-Oh Or maybe just someone in your local Pokemon community. Yu-Gi-Oh right. Might have something like that. If you have like a buy, sell, trade, Discord Server or something like that. But even the trainers, right. The trainers are typically pretty standard. I feel like in a lot of different decks, you know, you have a variety of pokeballs. No ball guy in this deck list, but ball guy. Very common to be able to grab all your different pokeballs of different Topps Because, remember, in glc, if you're on the audio version of the podcast. Let me refresh you on this. You can only have one card of each in a deck. Right. So you can only have one picky pack, one nest ball, one teammates, you know. Yep. Of that, the only thing that you can have multiples of is basic energy. So pretty good stuff in here. Yu-Gi-Oh And in terms of your attackers, like we said, you got two cannon, which does double duty as an attacker and a draw engine, but you also have the hop Snorlax as a bit of a wall, plus an attacker, you got Hops Cramorant, which is just kind of an insane attacker in glc. And keep in mind that all of these Hops Pokemon, you also have hop stub wool, but that's. I don't know if you're using that as an attacker as much. But all of these Hops Pokemon could take advantage of things like hops choice band. And interestingly, we're not playing Postwick in this list. Probably a space issue, but in theory you could also run the other stadium for the Hops Pokemon, which is Postwick. But pretty cool. Pretty, pretty neat here to see the variety of different attackers and then, you know, we're not going to go through, I think all the trainers. I will go through them, I think once, because they're pretty standard often. But we'll go over some of the unique ones in the. In each of the lists, you know, after this decklist. Think for this one. A unique one that I don't see often is Winona as a supporter. So you can search for three colorless Pokemon and they can be evolutions. It doesn't matter. So just being able to go get three of your evolution colorless Pokemon with one card or some combination of whatever, it's frankly, in this deck, it's a better version of dawn, which is pretty cool. Exactly. So I find that one to be a pretty unique inclusion to Colorless in particular. I think it's really nice and you know, as you're saying, better than Dawn. Right. It can be a variety of different stages on there. So I mean, it's probably a staple now in. In Colorless. Right. Especially with all this variety that you've got right now as just its flexibility to be able to find those colorless Pokemon. But moving on in some of these other like trainers, it's really interesting to see the effect of Team Rockets Petrol. Right. We talk about Team Rockets Petrol and how it's so good to find the aspects in this format. There are no A specs in this format. Right. You can't run any rule box, Pokemon or a spec cards in your deck in glc. So just still having that value of being able to find any trainer that you want. It's just that good. Right. It can help you find a stadium, can help you find a item card. Right. To be able to do a variety of things and then even stuff like Cipher Maniacs code breaking. Very good. We talk about the draw in this deck, right. With two Cannon drawing a card. Cincinno drawing two cards, Biberol and Skova drawing a combination of cards. Yu-Gi-Oh Really nice to see Cypher Maniacs code breaking in here. Yu-Gi-Oh So it's, it's pretty neat. Pretty neat little thing. I think most of the other Pokemon search cards are pretty common now. I think Town Map is maybe one of the cards that. It's a fringe card. It's a fringe. You know, I, I can understand, frankly, this is, I think we've talked about this before. The rules we would change if I was doing glc because GLC matches can take a long time. I would, I would try out a format where you give everyone a town map in their opening hand as a 61st card just so that they can play it and look at their prizes and be done with. And be done with having to do Prizm searching. But no, not doing it. If you don't know Town Map, it's an old card from black and white that says turn all of your Prizm cards face up. Yep. And I think they've had iterations of it as late as X and Y because I believe Robin Schultz had in his 2018 World Championship list when he one-of-one Worlds that year with Zora. But Town Map just makes it really easy because you flip over your prizes for the remainder of the game and, and you're able to grab exactly what you need right at the exact time. Because typically Prizm cards are random in what you draw it in. But now you have a choice of like, oh, I want to grab like this specific one because it'll help me in this next turn or I can wait to grab this until later in the game because I don't need it right now. That kind of deal. Some people play it. I like playing it because I don't like Prizm checking in GLC because it's 61 of to like keep track of. It's very hard. But you know, Town Map does have value in a lot of situations. I think people often go between either Town map or something like Goldin which has the effect of you look at all your prizes, you pick one and you swap Goldin with that, then you have to reshuffle. But you know, you don't always want to use your supporter for that. That can feel quite bad. Now this doesn't put anything in your hand, so if a key card is stuck there, it's just until you take a Prizm you can't get it. But Yu-Gi-Oh it's. It's cool. I think with redeemable ticket too, we could theoretically in the future see a scenario where people play town map and redeemable ticket to check and then swap it out without ever having to play a supporter. But who knows. One of the other synergies that I do want to call out in this deck is the emphasis on special energies. Right. I talked about how you can have any number of basic energies in a GLC deck, but colorless, especially Jesse Parker's version is running prime or literally only special energies. A variety of different ones. I think this is quick math. 10 different special energies. And so you've got stuff like Colvis's tenacity to be able to find a stadium like parallel city that we talked about earlier. And also a special energy to put into your hand that can do a variety of different things, right? Like there are some that draw cards. There's some that give extra power multiple kinds of energies as well, including three colorless energies up to at a single point which can help power up stuff like hops double. It can do Greedent as well and can also do a tail smash Bibberol if you really want to. Hey, I mean sometimes like 100 damage is not the worst. Yu-Gi-Oh you don't want to hit tails. But you know, it's really interesting too because there's a. There's a one of Greedent in this deck to evolve from these. Cooven and Greedon from Lost Origin has a two colorless energy attack called Spill Out. 60 plus damage. Discard your hand if you discarded five or more cards in this way. This attack does 150 more damage for 210 in total. And especially with cards like Biberol to in the next turn, draw cards until you have five in your hand. It's actually pretty easy to get that extra damage out from the Greedan. So really cool because you could just do a double Turbo energy or a Counter Energy if you're behind on prizes. And you've got a one attachment attack in Greeden. Also triple acceleration and ignition energy work as well because it is a evolution Pokemon. Pretty neat deck there. The next one I want to talk about though is I want to do we're going to go into psychic now? The second most pop, though the most popular deck in the second place one was Mike Gibbs with a psychic Deoxys deck in particular. Now, I have played a lot of psychic decks myself, but there have been so. Especially in glc. Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh That was like my main. Right. But they banned a few cards since I built it. Now that I need to rebuild it. Well, they've really only. Here's the crazy thing. They've only like. They banned Dusk Call, which is fine. Dimension. They ban Marshadow. Yu-Gi-Oh they pant Marsh. Well, Marshadow is let loose Marshadow. So Yu-Gi-Oh that card has to go. Hey, there was a time, Jake, when you could play that in jc. There's honestly not that many things that are really. Dimension Valley is the biggest one in my opinion because that's Stadium was so important. But it's true. Anyways. But this. This psychic deck I'm gonna need to update because, you know, it. It's looking pretty cool. It's. I don't think I would call it. It's not a spread deck though. It's a. It's really all about like powering up a couple of key attackers through different effects. But you have Kirlia, the refinement Kirlia from Gardevoir's heyday to draw you cards. You do have the. They chosen here, the older Gardevoir as the evolution from Curlya that says each basic psychic attached to your psychic Pokemon provides two psychic energy. And then the attack is not really great. But the fact that you can double your psychic energy does make powering up attackers like Giratina or Deoxys, who are, I think probably your main attackers. It makes powering them up much easier. So, Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, especially, you know, when you get two energies for the price of one. We talk about in the standard format how cool Meganium is, especially in GLC when your Pokemon could be getting knocked out left and right. You've got these 3, 2, 3 energy attackers in here. It is so easy to power up, right? Garatina is kind of your loop Pokemon that you're using a lot of times with that distortion durability of. If this Pokemon in your discard pile, put it on your bench. Put two damage counters on one of your opponent's Pokemon and then shadow its Pokemon. It's. Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh I'm sorry. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh One on two of your opponent's Pokemon and then Shadow impact, right? For three energy, two psychic, one colorless, for 130 damage. Puts four damage counters on one of your Pokemon, which, I mean, especially with the Malamar with Psychic Recharge, to get an energy from your discard pile onto a benched Pokemon. And Zatu. Right. Attaching a basic psychic energy to a bench Pokemon to draw two cards. The synergy is there with this deck, especially, you know, with Deoxys. This is one of the newer cards. This is from Chaos Rising. I think we talked about this card and how this could be viable in GLC with the 3 Psychic Energy Attack Psy Zebra for 120 damage. If this Pokemon has at least 2 extra energy attached in addition to this Pokemon attack cost, it does 120 damage to one of your opponent's bench Pokemon as well. So with that multiplying energy with the Gardevoir and accelerating energy on Malamar and Xatu, if you've got Gardevoir, Malamar and Xatu on the field and you use both of those abilities to put two energies on Deoxys, you only need one more attachment from hand to be able to get six energies with Gardevoir's doubling ability, to be able to get that extra damage, to be able to hit120.120, which is so powerful than in. In a format like glc. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, think about how powerful the Raiku was in the Lightning decks. It was powerful enough that I did they ban. They banned Raiku. They did ban Raiku. Yu-Gi-Oh They banned amazing rare Raikou for those of you who. Who maybe don't know or don't remember it. So that one had effectively, I think, the same attack, and it was in some ways harder to pull off, you know, give or take, but because it needed three different kinds of energy, whereas this, you do need to have two stage ones and a stage two, but very doable, frankly. Yu-Gi-Oh So, Yu-Gi-Oh that's. It's really cool seeing this. And it's cool seeing between the Dimension Valley ban and this Deoxys coming out. It makes sense that people are switching to this Gardevoir because Dimension Valley, if you don't know it, would allow your psychic Pokemon attacks to be used for one less psychic energy. So it had a similar energy cheating effect as the Gardevoir, but obviously one less still doesn't get you there with a Deoxys that needs five. Right. It is also one colorless energy. I just want to make that clear. Right, right. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh It's one colorless energy. It was one colorlessness, but that mattered for things like Giratina. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Like, it Made Giratina, like, only two energies that it needed. Or Blacephalon only needed one psychic energy to do it. To your point. Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh I just wanted to make that clarification. Yu-Gi-Oh Like, stuff like that was quite interesting at the time. But now between Deoxys and switching this gardevoir, it does feel like this is maybe a stronger engine overall, primarily because Deoxys is just worth the effort. It's worth running this other guard of war. So. And as you just mentioned, we are playing Blacephalon, which is if you can pull it off, when your opponent has exactly three Prizm cards remaining for two energy, you're putting 12 damage counters anywhere you like on your opponent's Pokemon, which is insane. It's very good, especially when you're doing some loops with Giratina to spread, you know, a damage counter here, damage counter there, damage counter here, damage counter there. And I can tell you there are games that I have one-of-one because you get Blacephalon online when your opponent has three. If you knock out key attackers with that attack and they can't respond, you just do 12 again and again. And at that point, I've actually told my opponents, I'm like, hey, if you don't have a way to knock this Placephalon out, I'm just gonna. The game is over. I'm just telling you. And so, Yu-Gi-Oh it's. It's a brutal attack, but also a 1, 1, 1 line of the new Alakazam. So more card draw. Yu-Gi-Oh this is Alakazam. That's exactly what Psychic needed. It has so much card draw now between Xatu, the Kadabra, Alakazam, Kirlia. Like, that's some good. That's some consistent card draw. Yu-Gi-Oh And you've got plenty of search for those Pokemon. Right. We talked about Winona in the colorless list and how it was a better version of Dawn. Obviously, Psychic can't run Winona, but to the point of what we had of how dawn can be Don Winona, these cards, finding these Pokemon can be so good. Dawn is present in this list. Right. Finding a basic stage one and stage two, which can be very synergistic for this deck that has many stage one lines and a handful of stage two lines. One of the cards that I think is very interesting in this deck, though I see this a couple times in glc, is Tag Call. Tag Call is not a card that gets a lot of notoriety in, especially because it was very only prevalent within the tag team formats in late sun and Moon, early Sword and Shield search your deck for up to two tag team cards. Reveal them, put them in your hand, then shuffle your deck. A lot of times I see this is just a way to find Guzmahala and that's it. Yu-Gi-Oh right. It. Even though it can search for two tag team cards, it really only searches for one in tag team supporters. Even though there are other tag team supporters that are frequently played in glc. Yu-Gi-Oh Like Mallow and Lana, like Zenith and Caitlyn. Zenith and Caitlin is my go to is second. But Yu-Gi-Oh like Guzmahala is just nuts, right? Like Guzmahala is like 80% of a secret box. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, so good in this, in this format of GLC being able. If you. Well, let's just start out with regular Guzmahala. Guzmahala has two different effects. Right. As a tag team supporter, you either a search your deck for a stadium card, put it in your hand, shuffle your deck. Okay. Stadium search. We talk about in standard how there's not really stadium search in the game. And this is one of the few ways that Pokemon has made ways to find stadiums. But if you play this card and trash two other cards from your hand, you not only can find a stadium, you can also search for a Pokemon tool card and a special energy card. Right. So very, very nice. You know, we talk about already some very good stadiums like Parallel City and also Special Energies, which was very prevalent in colors. Special Energies are in most all decks. I feel like in GLC in some form or capacity because there's some powerful ones in the format, but the stadium lineup in this deck is, is. Is pretty good. You know, we talked about Parallel City, you know, neutralizing bench. You also got Silent Lab in here, which is a strong stadium that I know is used in a couple different decks. Each basic Pokemon in play in each player's hand. And each player's discard pile have no abilities. May seem weird, but because you're like, wait, Jake, didn't you just talk about Garatina that has an ability in the discard pile to play on the bench? Well, sometimes you need to stop your opponent's abilities and that's way more important. Right. So very good stadium, but also Tropical beach is in this deck. Yu-Gi-Oh Okay. Which you do not need to get if you're casual. It's a very good card and it's something that is very, very good. Tropical beach, if you do not know, is the stadium card that once during each player's turn, they draw until they have seven or more or until they have seven cards in his or her hand. And if they do, the player's turn ends may seem weird. Very, very good setup card in my opinion. Stadium that you can utilize. But I think they stopped printing. Yu-Gi-Oh Tropical beach. And in 2014. And it was only if you qualified for the World Championships that you could get tropical beaches. Or I think they have tropical beach versions in the World Championship decks from that time. But it is. What's the lowest tropical on TCG player? It's a thousand dollars. Well, okay, so that version is. Sure. There's definitely a cheaper version. Probably. Yu-Gi-Oh I'm. I'm going on TCG player. And I'll define the cheapest version, like 300. Tropical beach, maybe 200. You can get the World Championship version, which in GLC allows World Championship versions of cards from the old World Championship stacks. You can get the 2014 version for 24.55. Really market value. Yu-Gi-Oh But it is more than likely damaged because I man, honestly, like. Because that's also a card that's not banned and expanded. And there has been expanded decks that have played several copies of that. That's what made them expensive. Well, it is controlled, the World Championship version. So if you're playing expanded in official Pokemon version, you cannot play a World Championship deck card. But for the purposes of glc, who cares? Yu-Gi-Oh You could play it. Yu-Gi-Oh Thankful. Thankful that GLC allows that and enables you to play some of these way less cards because you're. You're right. Like the. The cheapest versions of the actual tropical beaches are upwards of over 500. Yu-Gi-Oh Is. It's nuts. But Yu-Gi-Oh If for whatever reason you don't really want to play this or there's many other stadiums you can tech in. I mean, the easiest one is probably just throw in an artisan. Right. I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh you give your opponent a search, but being able to go search out your Monkey Dory or your Blacephalon or your Deoxys on command. Always quite good. Always very good. And especially with search cards like Fog Crystal. Right. Being able to find an energy or a psychic Pokemon or mysterious. Even mystery. Mysterious treasure that can find a psychic Pokemon or Dragon Pokemon. If you're playing the Dragon Deck, there's such good search, I think for psychic in general and even. And it has like a fair amount of card draw as well on top of that. And you know, that in combination, similar to the colorless deck is one of the reasons why they're, in my opinion, the two best decks in glc, at least in the beginning stages of the Pitch black format. Yu-Gi-Oh I will say, interesting to see here, given how popular Psychic is and knowing how popular Deoxys is. We are not running the bench barrier mew in this list. And I mean, I. I know we opted for the mew that looks at the top six and. And gives you an item, but there are other bench barrier cars. But I think, you know, my opinion is that bench barrier mew is probably a good idea to consider if. Oh, it's also. It's also good to note for anybody that doesn't know glc, the reason that Sean is mentioning the Celebrations Me that looks at the top couple cards, finds one, puts it in the hand, is in GLC, I mentioned that you can only have one of each card, so you have 60 unique cards. In terms of Pokemon, if you run a Celebrations Mew, you cannot run any other Mew cards in the deck. That's an interesting thing that I forgot to say at the top of the conversation. I believe there's a bench barrier, Mr. Mime, that exists as well. There is? Yes. So there's a bench barrier, Mr. Mime, you do have a second option in the same color, which is not always a guarantee in most of these colors. But, you know, that's one consideration I would throw in of, like, if there's like, a Pokemon or a spot that you're, like, not really vibing with a bench barrier mew probably wouldn't go Arai. Yu-Gi-Oh That's all I'm going to say now. The Silent Lab does just turn that bench barrier mew off, and maybe that's why they just don't bother. But hey, hey, what do I know? It is what it is. Yu-Gi-Oh Going to the next deck, though, on the list here we have Olivier Ng. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that wrong, but with a fighting deck here in the top 10. And this one is also lots and lots of new cards, I think, at least for the Pokemon, I think it's really. This deck is showcasing just how strong the power creep is for certain archetypes. Like, at least for Psychic, there were some cards in there that are quite old. But for Fighting man, you got Blood Moon Ursaluna, which accelerates fighting energy from your hand. All of these cards have. All these Pokemon have silver borders, except one Riolu, which is Ultra Prizm You're right. Like, there just happens to be one Riolu that, like, I'm sure if you're min. Maxing the decklist, you're like, well, technically, this is the best Riolu. And I'm like, okay, maybe, but like, you know, if you don't have this version of Riolu, it's fine. But Yu-Gi-Oh Blood Moon or Soluna, really cool here. Allowing you to accelerate energy does a pretty beefy amount of damage too, based on the amount of damage counters when your opponent's active. But you get to play the Lunatone and Soul Rock Engine as well, which is always really nice. But Jake, what else do people get access to if they choose to play fighting over colorless or psychic? One of the things that I really like is Hariyama, right? Hariyama over from the Mega Evolution base set. If once during your turn when you play this Pokemon from your hand to evolve one of your Pokemon, you may use this ability to switch one of your opponent's bench Pokemon to. To the active spot. It's a free Gust, right? Which is very, very good. And especially because this deck utilizes stuff like Scoop Up Net, right? Especially when you have Pokemon that have very good abilities. A lot of these decks utilize this item card from Rebel Clash from way back when. Scoop Up Net to pick up a Pokemon, put it in your hand, discard all cards attached to it. So you can, on a stage one specifically evolve into Harama, do a little Gust. Use Scoop Up Net to pick up the Harama and the Makuita under it to then replay the Makuita. And next turn you have the ability with that card in your hand of the Harama to go ahead and gust one more time. Yu-Gi-Oh Pretty sick combo. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, it's one of my. It's one of my favorite kind of like combinations using Scoop Up Net to like reutilize these abilities. Because you only have one Hariyama in the deck, but now you have ways to like reutilize it twice. And speaking of other Pokemon in there, along with Blood Moon, Ursuluna, there's another attacker in the Okie Dokie, right? Okie Dokie, you may remember from some of its runs in the regional championships and stuff, has the Adrena Power ability of. If this Pokemon has any Dark Energy attached, it gets 100 HP and the attacks do 100 more damage to the opponent's active Pokemon. So you're running a couple different special energies that are Rainbow esque in the Aurora Energy, the Prizm Energy, and the Unit Energy. I love the Unit Energies. They're so funny from back in Forbidden Light in the kind of early sun and Moon era, giving dark fighting and fairy type energy. But you've got a couple different ways to be able to make this a 230hp guy hitting for 170 damage without any modifiers like Premium Power Pro. Right. That you may have or any like health boosting modifications. I don't think there are any health boosting modifications within this deck. But to your point, it's a big beefy dude. 230 is a hard attack in or is a big guy in this format. Yu-Gi-Oh A 230 basic is crazy. Yu-Gi-Oh 230 basic. You're playing an ex essentially. If you can get that Dark Energy on the board. And then in terms of the other attackers, you do have Lucario 130hp. It has a basically a revenge style attack. You do 30 plus 120 more and if one of your fighting Pokemon were knocked out. So probably the reason we haven't seen it all that much in standard, even though this effect is quite good, is because usually Revenge in a normal standard deck is best played on a basic Pokemon. But here you have the luxury of time. You can set IT up and 150 for one energy is good enough to be worth running into your decks. So we have that. And then finally, last attacker here, we got the ting Liu for 140hp basic. It does ground crasher for 30. And if there's a stadium in play, it does 30 damage to each of your opponent's benched Pokemon and then discards the stadium. So a 30 damage spread for one. Yu-Gi-Oh All you got to do is put a stadium down and play it. Yu-Gi-Oh And I mean we've talked about a couple different stadiums already and how like stadiums are so good. Right? Multiple Topps of decks running Parallel City. You know, if you've got hit with Parallel City, now you have a one Energy Basic attacker that will guarantee get rid of that card and it will 99.9 likely be gone for the rest of the game. Right. Because you only have one parallel city in your opposing deck. And now you can have a full bench of five Pokemon over on your side. So really nice to see that. In my opinion. I like Ting Liu. It's pretty good. And also that setup can help fix some numbers, you know, with, you know, Okie dokie maybe hitting like a 200hp Pokemon. You have Blood Moon Ursaluna to be able to gain extra damage because damage counters hit your opponent's Pokemon. Right. To be able to do more damage for a heftier blow. And you can gust things up with Hariyama to maybe even hit with Soul Rock. Right. We talk about how Soul Rock and Lunatone are very good for drawing cards, But Soul Rock does 70 damage on the attack, which if you had a Ting Lube before, can, you know, knock out 100 HP Pokemon, can 90, 80, some of these other support Pokemon that maybe you gusted up earlier in the coming turns. Yu-Gi-Oh and you do have some pretty cool new support in the Fighting Gong and the premium Power Pro that this archetype just didn't really have access to before. So lots of, lots of neat stuff. Does this one play the new. Yu-Gi-Oh it does play the new Tarragon as well. The, the new supporter that searches fighting and basic energy, fighting energy from the discard. So basically Tulip, but for fighting, which is great. I, I, you know, big fan of this. And then you also get access to Karina, the supporter that lets you search your deck for a fighting and an item and put them into your hand. So lots of cool little tricks here. And you know, I, I don't know fighting's history in glc, but from my experience it has not been a deck previously that I saw played all that often. But and partly because a lot of fighting Pokemon, not all, but a lot of them can have a weakness to psychic. And if psychic is particularly good, that can feel bad. But you know, and that's I think still generally the case here. But, but you do have cards now like Ting L and Blood Moon Uraluna, which are weak to grass instead. So you have a couple of attackers that don't just get insta killed by the most popular deck in the format. And I absolutely love the synergy between Blood Moon Ursaluna and Taragon specifically. Right. Because we talked about how Blood Moon Ursaluna accelerates energies onto itself when you play it down onto the field from your hand. And so if you go in with a Blood Moon Ursaluna, right, You get the two energy accelerated, you attach one from hand, bring it up to the active, and then it gets knocked out in response. Well, Tarragon can grab not only the Blood Moon Ursaluna, but the three fighting energies that you had attached to that Blood Moon or Saluna back into your hand. So now you guarantee have the ability to replay that Pokemon down on the field and get to swinging yet again. Really cool synergy on that front, in my opinion. And then talking about tag call again. I talked about tag call and how it only had one option in the previous deck, this fighting type player playing Zenith and Kalin as well with Guzman. Holla. So there's a full two options that you can get off of your. Off of your thing. Thingama Dot. Yu-Gi-Oh your Tag call. Yu-Gi-Oh your tag call. Very, very cool. And one of my favorite cards in pretty much every single list, which makes me happy and that I miss every day. In the standard format. Hisuian heavy ball. I missed that card. I. Yu-Gi-Oh Pour one out once again for hisuian heavy ball. Yu-Gi-Oh The last deck that I think we're going to talk about today, Jake, just given time, is actually we. You have a choice. I'm going to give you a choice, Jake. Do you want to talk water or do you want to talk dragon? Let's see. I like talking about water. Probably between those two, I would choose water because water is typically the deck that I like playing. And there are some changes within this deck list of water. Water. This is Evan Wicklung's 24th place water type deck in here and using one of my favorite dudes, Whale lord. Yep. Yu-Gi-Oh Wailord 240 HP. Stage one Absolute chonker with an amazing Illustration. Rare if you are building your GLC decks. Always fun to bling them out. Hydro pump doing 10 plus 50 more for each water energy attached. So absolutely. It's a challenge to knock out and it can deal a lot of damage in response. So pretty. Pretty neat there. Especially with the synergy of Frostmoth. Right. Frostmoth from Rebel Clash, I believe is when it first came out, has the Ice Dance ability. As often as you like, you may attach a Water Energy card from your hand to one of your benched Water Pokemon. It's also interesting because it says. I don't know if this is a typo or anything, but it says you may attach a Water Energy card from your hand. So it can be a special Water Energy. But I guess so it's not technically. It's not technically a Water Energy until it's attached to a Water Pokemon. Yu-Gi-Oh well, there were some energy cards at one point in history that did not care so you could attach them. So there's like in the Psychic deck, in the Malamar deck, there is I believe one special energy that Malabar can accelerate. I believe back some weird maybe. But anyways, like Yu-Gi-Oh So very cool though. Like that Frost Moth is definitely a big, big part of the engine. The Milotic though here I. You know, I don't play a lot of GLC water and I don't play against it that often. But I haven't seen this Milotic very often which is got the ability when you play this Pokemon from your hand to evolve one of your Pokemon. You can put a card from your discard pile into your hand any card. So it is. It's really nice to be able to replay certain cards within your deck. And there's always been a conversation about, like, which melodic you should play. Right? There's a couple different ones, including the Energy Grace one, which knocks out the melodic to accelerate three energies from the discard pile onto a Pokemon can be pretty solid for wailord. But this player saying that, well, Melodic from the Primal Clash, I believe this set was just getting the card from the discard pile to be able to reutilize in whichever way you want is just worth it in there itself. And there's a lot of ways to find water energy within this deck, right? You have Capacious Beckett from the Rebel Clash set to be able to grab two water energies from your deck to just put inside your hand. You also have reutilizations from the last couple sets like in Chaos Rising of the Great Hall Net, which is a very cool card in my opinion. Shuffle up to three water Pokemon from your discard pile to your deck or, or. And also shuffle up to three basic Water Energy cards from Magic card pile to your deck. Getting up to six cards back in your deck is crazy. Yu-Gi-Oh And then you combine that with the fact that you have yet again a tulip for. For water in Nessa. So you just have so many ways to recur Water Energy and to recur key Pokemon in this deck that I think that's kind of why this deck doesn't need to run a ton of different attackers. You really do kind of hunker down with this wailord. Try to attack with it as often as you can. You do have other options in things like Swampert, which is a, maybe a. A lesser waylord attack. But for the most part those are, I think, your two, you know, main attackers. More often than not. There is a card in here that is pretty good for attacking in Wishy Washy, right? Wishy washy has a 130 hp or 130 damage attack, I should say as a 180 hp basic Pokemon, it's a very, very beefy Pokemon. A lot of times players need to hit multiple times in order to knock this out. But with that ability, scatter at the end of your opponent's turn. If this Pokemon has damage counters on it, you flip a coin. If Tails, you shuffle this Pokemon and all cards attached to it into your deck. A lot of times that's a hindrance in the Pokemon trading card game, right, because you don't want your Pokemon to be shuffled back into the deck. But with such an aggressive Pokemon search on trying to find, you know, Pokemon. You have Irida to be able to find a Pokemon. You have dawn right in this list as well to be able to find Pokemon. Dive Ball finds a Pokemon. Nest Ball finds a basic. You know, all these different. Even stuff like Brooklet Hill. Right. A stadium that finds a water Pokemon to play out on in the field. You can get Tank a hit on this Wishy Washy, put it back in your deck and then bring it back up to the front. And especially with Frostmoth, you can accelerate the energies onto Wishy Washy to be able to get these attacks off even if it gets shuffled back into the deck. And then you also have really solid attacks like Inteleon. We didn't talk about it yet, but the shady dealings of Drizzile and Inteleon present in this deck, very, very good shady dealings on the Drizzile being able to find any trainer card to put in your hand. And then Inteleon finding two trainer cards to put into your hand. Aqua Bullet is a very relevant attack as well. Right. Does 120 damage onto one of your opponent's Pokemon. And 22, a bench Pokemon can get some good setup damage to clean up hits from stuff like or for stuff like wailord or Swampert or Wishy Washy, whoever you move in with your next attack. So overall, I mean, I think Water has been a pretty strong archetype for a long time now. It's still a solid one. Yu-Gi-Oh still pretty strong. I would say though, that the rise of, I think maybe colorless in particular, because a big part of what makes this deck successful is protecting things like your wailords and your Swamperts, like kind of your big beefy Pokemon. So they can absorb a hit, not get knocked out. And then you can either heal them or get two attacks off with them. Right. That's how you really mess with the Prizm trade in Water. But I think a few of the colorless Pokemon we've seen especially now can really hit over those numbers. And I think that that maybe is a part of the reason why Water didn't do quite as well in this tournament. Yu-Gi-Oh I mean, you have to find some health boosting functions. Yu-Gi-Oh Right. Within this decks. And really the only immediate health boosting function is luxurious cape. Right. It gives your Pokemon 100 plus HP, but it gives up an extra Prizm card if it's knocked out. So that's something that you just generally have to be careful about. But you can make your wailer 340hp, which is big Dog, and Then like you can make it 340hp, use a scoop up net to just pick it up and then. Yu-Gi-Oh Oh, what was that? You Goldin knock him out. Like you're not gonna get another chance. So. Yu-Gi-Oh And you also have different healing effects in this deck. Like Mallow and Lana write a very, very nice card. You also have rough seas which is a just passive like 30 hp heal every single turn, which is very relevant right. Over a long period of time if you can get it to stick. And with cards like Surfing beach as well, doing something like a Mallow and Lana to go ahead and put Whaler to the bench heal 120 damage. Well, surfing beach can just get wailed right back into the active. You don't have to manually switch or have like an air balloon attached or an escape rope or. Or anything of the sort like that. Yu-Gi-Oh So pretty, pretty cool deck here. I think those four are archetypes are probably the ones that if you're looking to either get into GLC or maybe you play it and you know, like me, you haven't played it in a minute and you're looking to up your decks or whatever. I think these four archetypes right now are the strongest. I do want to just shout out, pour one out, Jake for I believe the one archetype that was not represented by any deck in this tournament, Fairy Foreign is really hard because Yu-Gi-Oh fairy obviously since. What was it? Since Sword and Shield. Yu-Gi-Oh Has not had any fairy type cards as printed and therefore no fairy type support that has been into the deck. And there's a lot of times too where like there are some cool fairy type like evolutions or something that are. That are fairy type but the basic Pokemon are psychic or vice versa. Where the basic Pokemon is fairy. But the evolution, the best evolution for that Pokemon is a psychic type. It's not fairy since the conjoining of fairy. So it's unfortunate, but there's not much that you can do in a format like this unless you create like custom cards or something like that. Because just again, there's no. There's no support. Sometimes you will see a colorless deck, though it hasn't been done in, in a bit. But sometimes a colorless deck will run like a fairy energy because they just need to run a basic energy. And it doesn't matter in a colorless deck, the Kecleon or something that. That cares about all the different energy Topps And so we throw. Well, I think a lot of times, I think a lot of times it's like Raihan. Yu-Gi-Oh Right. Because Raihan will accelerate a basic energy from the discard pile. And so typically people do fire. Yu-Gi-Oh But you can do the homage with just the one fairy. You know, it's just like a, hey, we remember you, fairy. Pour one out. So. But that is going to do it for GLC this time, as Jake said, we'll have the decklist in the show notes, or not the decklist, but we'll have the link to this site that has all the decklists from the tournament. Good, bad. And also posted, also posted in the Discord server, which you can also get in the show notes and the link in the description below. Good. Little community talking about, you know, their polls, cards. They get decklists. You know, a lot of people talk about how their, how their decks are going, things that nature. Yu-Gi-Oh And also you can find a community people to commiserate over Dragapult land, which is always nice. Yu-Gi-Oh Jake, sign us out. Thank you so much for listening to the Metapod podcast. Welcome to tcg. Podcast revolves around the evolving meta. My name is Yu-Gi-Oh got Sean with me here as always, and we'll see you next week.