Instead of playing an hybrid control, just going full luxray discard, maybe, that will be a very good control deck, any way you are already playing mostly luxray to solve every situation on your games, the other pieces semes irrelevant in most games

I prefer your control deck without luxray I have used control without luxray and had a lot more success with it and if I were you I would go back to playing normal bird control without luxray it is so much better and you can have so many more tech options in the deck without luxray

keep your head up blitz I've been struggling this format too trying to find what deck to focus on

Nice to see more control fun! I have a format perspective question id like yalls opinion on. With pokemon shells requiring less and less space and the format being so wide ive noticed that control has became less of a box o' counters and more of a reactive tempo deck that throws an occasional roadblock and plays from behind usually similar to gardi in my opinion. Do you see a world where control becomes borderline obsolete and the deck transitions to something else entirely while still holding the moniker "control" and if so what would would that look like? I personally have taken a step back from control because the format got fast enough i couldnt reliably sink the hooks in, or when i did decks are designed now with enough extra space to be able to tech in those 2 canceling colognes, a pecharunt ex, or even both in some cases and forcing your opponent to topdeck in a format where 4 ofs are incredibly common and decks flow smoother just never quite worked out for me. Im just curious of your opinion and anyone else who wants to awnser, about the state of control and what things should look like going forward, or if they even need to go anywhere?

Are Chi-Yu, Cornerstone, and Mimikyu bad in Luxray control?

Gonna bring this to my locals soon, any tips against roaring moon? Having trouble against it on ladder

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lost box deck are the most overplayed deck

Excellent content, great to hear from another expert player we don't get to see much, but always has interesting decks. I think there's some good potential coming for control with things like Noctowl and Cassiopeia opening up non-Pidgeot search options. However, there is a noticeable lack of strong disruption, status, hand/deck manipulation effects, and other things we see in some of the historical powerful control decks. It's like they don't really want control to be very strong compared to numerous overpowered turbo decks, although they kind of pretend to make a control card here and there (such as Xero and Hand Trimmer and Great Tusk which seem almost good but no one ultimately uses).

Really great conversation. But energy was really low. I bout fell asleep listening 😂 but still informative

I think the prize cards are a fun part of the game, but you should only know what they are, not the order. Keeps the current randomness alive but eliminated the tedium. Also: Impossible Challenge, don’t prize a cheese stick

10 mins of shuffling is a far cry from the outrageously long turns in yugioh.

Gholdengo has been excellent for a long time and can even play well with multiple variants. However, don't forget about the sub-20% WR against Throns 😂. I would wait a couple weeks before bringing it back out.

James, thanks for this interview!

Sander!!!! We're eagerly waiting to see what "controlled " madness you come up with next!!!

would you make any changes to the list now that iron thorns is a more relevant threat? or just try and dodge the matchup

Who neeeds control with toedscruel 🥵🥵🥵

This is awesome. Sander is my favorite player and does things like this so rarely. Was really cool to see this

Love the high quality content! Great interview

literally screamed seeing sander in this my goat fr.

I like prizing checking because it lets me see what i have and how i should play as well as to play against my opponent.

Nice video. I have to say tho Stall, lock and stun decks are the vayne of tcgs

sorry 8 warlords of control now

Amazing content from the GOAT

It does seem like they made the tournament structure even worse. 16 rounds and 65 minute rounds with even turns or something like that would've been a better solution, imo. But for some reason people complain about spending too many hours playing Pokémon at a Pokémon tournament

Two goats

I think the current format discouraging ties is a good thing. I think it makes control tough but it also sucks that playing against a soft control deck like gardy or Charizard that if they take game 1 it will be easy for them to force a tie. However, I think pokemon would benefit from being a Bo2 format for swiss and bo3 for top cut

I disagree. If you know what you're doing, playing control I'd say its easier to win. Opponents will not want to tie obviously, so they'll have to keep up with that pressure and try to avoid a 1-0 set.

Goated content, keep higher quality stuff like this on the horizon man

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Awesome video! Just wondering why cut Miss fortune and Thorton from previous lists?

Hi alloutblitzle, I'm a big fan of yours and I would like to use your deck in the next locals. My problem is the language barrier, I always watched your videos and tried to adapt my gameplay by seeing your moves. But I would like to understand the strategies for each matchup with English subtitles that can be easily translated into my language (Italian) or create a written Excel list with all the various matchups. Is it possible to do this?

what if your opponent used devo?

The mac and cheese!!

Damn, you predicted iron thorns is really good 👍 25:59

Took this to a league challenge today and won 3-0-1 Chien-Pao - WL Gardi - WW Regidrago - WLW Chien-Pao - WW

Grate vid thabsk for the infos. The decklist in description is kessed up tho. Only 59 cards.