Tree Climber

 

Pokémon [17]

1 — Lugia EX — Ancient Origins (68/98)
1 — Mewtwo EX — Next Destinies (54/99)
2 — Genesect EX — Plasma Blast (11/101)

1 — Regigigas — Phantom Forces (86/119)
4 — Skarmory — Roaring Skies (69/108)

4 — Treeko — Hoenn Collection (XY36)
4 — Sceptile — Primal Clash (8/160)

Trainers [27]

3 — Professor's Letter — XY (123/146)
4 — Rare Candy — Plasma Blast (85/101)

1 — Colress — Plasma Storm (118/135)
2 — Tierno — BREAKpoint (112/122)
3 — Steven — Roaring Skies (90/108)
3 — Skyla — BREAKthrough (148/162)
4 — Cheren — Emerging Powers (91/98)

3 — Chaos Tower — Fates Collide (94/124)

1 — G Booster — Plasma Blast (92/101)
3 — Energy Pouch — Fates Collide (97/124)

Energy [16]

3 — Double Colorless Energy
13 — Grass Energy

Epilogue

For anyone whose climbed a tree before, you might like what we're up to today, because this is a deck all about climbing trees. Our fun begins with Chaos Tower (the tree), and our collection of tree climbers—Mewtwo, Lugia, Genesect, and Treeko—and their "Challenge Accepted".

But before you can climb a tree, you've got to find a tree. And this is we shift our focus to the collection of our resources—and their combing tactical and straight draw technique that hopes to find us the perfect tree to climb.

Now, if there's one thing that provokes a person to want to climb a tree more than anything else—it's to check out a bird nest. And so starting off, we have this here with Skarmory and [Call for Family]. Alongside our collection of Supporters, Skarmory is going to help lead the way for us on our journey.

We want to begin with Skarmory and [Call for Family], looking to put a Treeko and another Pokémon directly onto the bench. However, even despite this, we still want to play first if we can, because we're working with Rare Candy here, and that means we need as much turn advantage as possible to accelerate the evolution process.

Playing first also helps to accelerate our draw potential some—and make use of a possible first turn Steven (when his potential is at its prime).

Since this deck's opening Pokémon provides a tactical draw (opposed to reinforcing our straight draw from the deck), it initially puts the deck at somewhat of a disadvantage for gathering resources. However, that is why we have cards like Professor's Letter, Steven, and Skyla—to help increase our draw potential and concentrate the effectiveness of our draws with Cheren and Tierno.

Steven knows all the best trees to climb, netting us two solid cards, and setting Cheren or Tierno up for an awesome follow up. Professor's Letter is a free tactical draw of two cards—upping our draw potential anywhere from 4 to 6 cards a turn with just a single play from Skyla, Cheren/Tierno, or Steven.

Skyla herself is mostly here (and in high volume) to get us straight to G Booster (as important as that card can be). G Booster is like the Gameboy—that's what you want to take to spend some quality time up in the trees. G Booster gets us over almost all the troubles in the world—and the power light is easy to keep shining bright—between the effects of {Nurture and Heal}, Double Colorless Energy, and Energy Pouch.

I personally like to think of Energy Pouch as the safety restraints for professional tree climbers, but I suppose it could double as our backpack of goodies on more casual adventures.

We can even take a book up there, and learn all kinds of interesting stuff about trees, such as, "Dendro...philiac; a person who has sex...with trees."