{"id":241120,"date":"2024-04-12T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T07:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=241120"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T07:23:09","slug":"pokemon-tcg-between-heaven-and-hell-arceus-vstar-giratina-vstar-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/04\/12\/pokemon-tcg-between-heaven-and-hell-arceus-vstar-giratina-vstar-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pok\u00e9mon TCG] Between Heaven and Hell: Arceus VSTAR\/Giratina VSTAR Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Update 5 Jun 2024] At the recent Santiago Regionals, Brazilian player Dalton Acchetta took a new variant of this deck to a second-place finish. Acchetta added a Radiant Charizard card from Pok\u00e9mon GO [S10b] to the deck.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Champions League Fukuoka tournament, a Japan-only Pok\u00e9mon TCG tournament held in February 2024, Hajime Fujiwara and Kai Itazu put the previously-underrated Arceus VSTAR\/Giratina VSTAR deck in the spotlight, securing multiple surprising victories and finishing the tournament in sixth and seventh places respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This deck built around Arceus VSTAR<\/a> and Giratina VSTAR\u2014both from the VSTAR Universe [S12a] set\u2014exhibits an impressive level of synergy. Arceus VSTAR is a highly underrated support Pok\u00e9mon. Its VSTAR Power Starbirth can be used to take any two cards from the deck at any time to be placed in the player’s hand. Although a player may only use a VSTAR Power once per game, using Starbirth at just the right time can be exactly what’s needed to turn the tables on the opponent and set up the eventual W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consistency and stability that Arceus VSTAR provides pair well with Giratina VSTAR’s ferocious offensive power. For just three Energy cards, Giratina VSTAR’s devastating Lost Requiem attack, hitting for a whopping 280 damage, can be unleashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, by equipping Giratina VSTAR with Maximum Belt, an ACE SPEC Pok\u00e9mon Tool from Wild Force [SV5K], Lost Requiem one-shots almost every Pok\u00e9mon-ex as this Pok\u00e9mon Tool jacks up the damage dealt to them by 50, taking the total to 330.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to counterplay this deck’s hard counters such as decks built around Lugia VSTAR from Paradigm Trigger [S12] and Chien-Pao ex from Shiny Treasure ex [SV4a], Judge from Shiny Treasure ex [SV4a] can be used. Through this Supporter cards that requires both players to shuffle their respective hands into their decks before drawing four cards, the tempo of these ordinarily fast-paced decks can be greatly slowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cumulative cost of all the cards in an Arceus VSTAR\/Giratina VSTAR Deck is at least 6,000 JPY (~US$39).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other TCG-related news, check out the Umbreon V card from Eevee Heroes [S6a]<\/a>. Alternatively, you can also head over to the SNKRDUNK App via the banner below and find the top trending and latest single cards and boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[Update 5 Jun 2024] At the recent Santiago Regionals, Brazilian player Dalton Acchetta took a new variant of this deck to a second-place finish. Acchetta added a Radiant Charizard card from Pok\u00e9mon GO [S10b] to the deck. In the Champions League Fukuoka tournament, a Japan-only Pok\u00e9mon TCG tournament held in February 2024, Hajime Fujiwara and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":241121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-collectibles","category-latest-news","category-tcg"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241120"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268560,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241120\/revisions\/268560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}