For the better part of the format Reshipholsion was a dominating deck that won so many tourneys in Canada and the United States ( for Battle Roads in America it was the second most winning deck behind ZPST). However since the release of Noble Victories and then the City Championships its seemingly died off a bit. Sure people are still playing it (its still an amazing deck) but its place at the top of the meta it seems is no longer there.
Another deck has risen to take its place and is what some people are calling the best deck in the format(BDIF). Eelzone has exploded into the meta with a nice combination of heavy attackers, energy acceleration and draw power........but wait isnt that what Reshipholsion did. So lets have a look and compare the two decks in those three categories.
Draw Power
Ninetales – Fire – 90 HP
Stage 1 – Evolves from Vulpix
Poke-Power: Roast Reveal
You can use this power once during your turn. Discard 1 Fire Energy card from your hand. Then, draw 3 cards from your deck. This power can’t be used if this Pokemon is affected by a Special Condition.
[R][R][C] Will-o-Wisp: 60 damage.
Weakness: Water (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1
Magnezone (Prime) – Lightning – HP140
Stage 2 – Evolves from Magneton
Poke-Power: Electromagnetic Draw
You can use this power once during your turn. Draw cards from your deck until you have 6 cards in your hand. This power can’t be used if this Pokemon is affected by a Special Condition.
[L][C] Lost Burn: 50x damage. Place any number of Energy attached to your Pokemon in play into the Lost Zone. This attack does 50 damage for each of those Energy cards.
Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: Metal (-20)
Retreat: 3
So first off we have both the decks draw engines Ninetales and Magnezone Prime. Both cards are very good for the draw though i myself would have to give advantage here to Ninetales. Magnezones Electromagnetic Draw only works while you have less then 6 cards in your hand, where as Ninetales can go on and on so long as you have energy to feed the Roast Reveal (which if your playing Energy Retrieval you will). While Magnezone does serve as an attacker as well Ninetales also has the added bonus of being able to be set up at any time (magnezone will take longer if your under trainer lock).
Winner: Reshipholsion
Energy Acceleration
Typholsion Prime – Fire – 140 HP
Stage 2 – Evolves from Quilava
Poke-Power: Afterburner
You can use this power once during your turn. Attach 1 Fire Energy card from your discard pile to one of your Pokemon. Then, place 1 damage counter on that Pokemon. This power can’t be used if this Pokemon is affected by a Special Condition.
[R][R][C] Fire Destruction: 70 damage. Discard 1 Energy attached to Typhlosion and 1 Energy attached to the Defending Pokemon.
Weakness: Water (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2
Eelektrik – Lightning – HP90
Stage 1 – Evolves from Tynamo
Ability: Electric Dynamo
Choose 1 Lightning Energy card from your discard pile and attach it to one of your Benched Pokemon. You can use this Ability 1 time during your turn.
[L][L][C] Lightning Ball: 50 damage.
Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2
The thing about these decks as my teammate showed me is that they just swap stage 1's and 2's. where Reshipholsion has the faster draw support in Ninetales Eeelzone has the faster energy acceleration in Eelektrik. Now some might say that Typholsion makes up for it by being able to attach anywhere for the cost of 1 damage counter, However keep in mind that Eelzones ideal start is a Thundurus which comes packing its own form of acceleration in Charge. This allows Eelektrik to start powering up your next attacker for when Thundurus gets KO'ed.
Winner: Eelzone
So these decks are very close in terms of playability and how they play during a game, however the difference in my opinion is in the attacking area. Reshipholsion has one main attacker with Typholsion as a decent back up attacker, While Eelzone is Capable of producing many attackers. The other reason i feel that Eelzone has kind of taken over Reshipholsions place is the amount of damage it can do. At best Reshipholsion can hit for a max damage output of 130 (Reshiram with a Pluspower), Where Magnezone Prime hits for pretty much whatever it wants. Eelzone is also boosted by having access to a opening attacker (Thundurus) and amazing mid game attacker (Zekrom) and then Magnezone to finish off the job.
Overall though it has seen a drop from the top spots at tourneys Reshipholsion is still one bad ass deck and with Reshiram EX being released very soon, I totally see this deck taking back its spot as one of the most dominating decks this format.
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