Incineroar ex Deck List

New Deck Alert! I have been racking my brain about which Pokémon deck to play when my good old reliable Meowscarada deck goes out of rotation in March of next year. So, I have been playing new decks, trying to figure out what my new favorite deck for tournament play will be.

So, what am I going to do here? Well, I actually have a few options. Most of them will need to be edited to some degree to account for rotation, but the base lines of pokemon and the energy count will remain mostly the same.

Enter my current favorite option. Or rather one of them. Incineroar ex.

“Oh, here we go. Of course, the fuckin furry has a deck with the big handsome fire cat wrestler.” Listen here, Bucko. What decks I may/may not have have nothing to do with me being a furry. It just so happened that I liked looking at his attack combined with his ability and blah blah blah Incineroar Strong blah blah blah.

In all seriousness though, the Scarlet and Violet set Temporal Forces brought this card into existence.

Incineroar ex is a Stage 2 fire pokemon that evolves from Litten and Torracat.

This printing utilizes and attack called Blaze Blast for 1 Fire Energy and 4 Colorless. Blaze Blast also burns your opponent’s active Pokémon (if you didn’t already knock it out.) This (and the card’s type advantage against Grass and Steel Pokémon) means that you can easily OHKO some pretty big targets. However, its attack is a big expensive, isn’t it?

Well, with the ability “Hustle Play,” you can reduce the attack cost for Blaze Blast by one colorless energy for each Pokémon on your opponent’s bench. So this makes decks in the meta that need big benches vulnerable if you can get Incineroar powered up.

An added help with this strategy is the Twilight Masquerade card, Accompanying Flute. It allows you to look at the top five cards of your opponent’s deck and put down any basic Pokémon you find. It’s a huge risk; but if you have an Incineroar ready with energy free to possibly attack with, it could easily give you some extra buffer if you can only attach one energy.

The deck list I will be showing is not perfect. The Armarogue cards are going out of rotation which, unless I put Energy Switches in this deck, makes the Ho-oh cards obselete. The format loses Iono, Arven, Earthen Vessel, Counter Catcher, and Super Rod with the new rotation too.

But here’s the deck I have. I have used it to varying success at local tournaments.

Pokemon:

4x Litten TEF
1x Torracat TEF
3x Incineroar ex TEF
2x Ethan’s Ho-oh ex DRI
1x Fuecoco SV1
1x Fuecoco PAR
1x Crocalor PAL
2x Skeledirge ex PAR
1x Charcadet PAF
1x Charcadet MEP
2x Armarogue PAF
1x Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex TWM

Supporters/Items/Tools:

3x Arven SV1/OBF
2x Boss’s Orders
2x Iono PAF
1x Lillie’s Determination MEG
4x Rare Candy
3x Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF
2x Accompanying Flute TWM
2x Super Rod PAL
2x Ultra Ball
1x Counter Catcher PAR
1x Night Stretcher SFA
1x Earthen Vessel PAR
1x TM Evolution PAR
1x Maximum Belt TEF
1x Air Balloon

Energy

13x Fire Energy

So, this is my current list. I am open to any suggestions on things to fix for this format right now, or for switches I can make for the next format. If you have any ideas, please share them! I like this deck and playing Pokémon, and I want to make a new deck while working on ones I already have.

I have a few more decks I want to consider using more that I am working on. So stay tuned.