When my daughter and I went to the Destined Rivals prerelease event, we got talking with some people. I mentioned that I collect Eevee and they mentioned that there was an Eevee deck doing pretty well in tournaments. I am a Pokemon noob, but I love Eevee. So it sounded like a cool deck to me.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a video by six tcg about some popular meta decks right now. Turns out, The Flareon deck is one of the harder decks to play. But I decided to try it out anyway.
I copied the Nathan Ginsburg decklist from NAIC 2025 into TCG Live. I've played (and won) 2 games with this deck in Pokemon TCG Live, so I'm basically an expert. This deck feels like pure chaos and I love it. I feel like you have to be so precise. At any moment, I'm worried I will make the wrong play and not be able to recover. That's how you should feel right? There is like just enough energy, but so much draw power. Getting the energy in the right place at the right time is what I'm struggling with. I'm still learning which Pokemon I should be powering up and what energy they take. I'll get there.
A couple other mistakes I've made:
- Fan Rotom only works once—I got 2 on my first turn and played them both. Locked up my bench until I could get Area Zero Underdepths.
- Noctowl's jewel seeker only works when you have a Tera Pokemon in play—I wasted one or 2.
There's a lot of other basics of the game I'm learning, like sequencing and picking what to discard. But this deck kinda seems like a baptism of fire. Kinda got to learn that stuff quick to do well with it. I was a little confused why this deck didn't use Luminous Energy, but then realized that would not work with Crispin. So it's fun learning those sorts of things. I'm still a little confused about Terapagos ex and its role. If you know, lmk.
I haven't played it against anything like a Dragapult or Gardevoir deck, so I'm sure I will face bigger challenges as I go.
I've got a lot of the cards to build this deck physically, and I think I will.
Deck List
Pokémon: 22
4 Hoothoot SCR 114
4 Noctowl SCR 115
1 Eevee SSP 143
1 Eevee MEW 133
2 Flareon ex PRE 14
1 Sylveon ex SSP 86
1 Leafeon ex PRE 6
2 Fan Rotom SCR 118
1 Eevee ex PRE 75
1 Mew ex MEW 151
1 Fezandipiti ex SFA 38
1 Latias ex SSP 76
1 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56
1 Terapagos ex SCR 128
Trainer: 29
3 Crispin SCR 133
2 Iono PAL 185
2 Boss's Orders PAL 172
1 Professor Turo's Scenario PAR 171
1 Cyrano SSP 170
1 Briar SCR 132
4 Nest Ball SVI 181
3 Ultra Ball SVI 196
2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
2 Night Stretcher SFA 61
1 Super Rod PAL 188
1 Tera Orb SSP 189
1 Switch SVI 194
1 Counter Catcher PAR 160
1 Sparkling Crystal SCR 142
2 Area Zero Underdepths SCR 131
1 Gravity Mountain SSP 177
Energy: 9
2 Fire Energy SVE 10
2 Water Energy SVE 11
2 Lightning Energy SVE 12
2 Psychic Energy SVE 13
1 Grass Energy SVE 9