You won't always draw into the rare candies, but they save time and space. In my opinion, there isn't much you can do to change the standard hourglass evolution lines with rare candies you don't have the deck space to run 3-3-3 lines of both evolutions and the deck would be even less able to keep up. Lysandre KO's and starting with it are worth it for the consistency it brings. This card is very useful for speeding up clunky setups, including dead draws due to a slim supporter line. One option in Expanded is to try the item Pokemon Communication, which can trade any Pokemon in your hand for any other Pokemon in your deck without the limits of level ball or the discard cost of ultra ball. evosoda without a high Skyla count and Tropical Beaches, using Skyla to evolve using rare candy can be difficult if you don't draw into the right cards.

This might allow you to run fewer copies of cards like Lysandre or Colress, which it is important to run at least one each of. Seeker to help slim down your supporter line if possible. This comes at the cost of facing Eelektrik decks and Yveltal with dark patch, but I think it's necessary if you want to enjoy playing stage 2's.

In my opinion Level Ball and Super Rod are usually crucial for evolution decks' success. The fact that your strategy cannot start working right away will mean that stage 2 decks are always at a disadvantage compared to big basic ones favored by the current formats, but some stage 2 decks have found competitive success and you can definitely win ranked matches with them in PTCGO. Hi fr33land, you're right that building decks with two stage 2 pokemon is difficult. Now I need some basic pokemon as meat blockers so I don't always start stuck with the generally lame basics my evolution lines need, let's say 4? ten cards left, not really enough to have lysandre, or tools, retrieval and so on, depending on the pokemon I want trainer cards to complement their attacks.ДЄm I confused, sometimes evosoda seems quicker than rare candy, you seem to have to be lucky to sort out a rare candy turn two, you might have to search for one or two pokemon and an item to rare candy the stage 2 you want, you can't rare candy the basic you just searched for, so turn three, same as two evosoda. Now I need switch x 2 minimum so weaker evolutions aren't caught out, 2-3 Skyla so I can get the ultra ball or rare candy, where does that leave me.34 cards so far, 12 energies, that's 46. Trying to construct decks which use stage 2 pokemon, both for support and main attacker, the problem I am having is that so much of my trainer cards end up devoted to evolving these pokemon that not enough is left for anything else, let's say I have at least 8 draw supporters, then you put 4 rare candies, 4 ultra ball, now two 3-1-3 evolution lines, that's already half the deck.

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