Blissey Ninetales (2010)

Blissey stood out as a very good card when released in Mysterious Treasures thanks to her wonderful 130 HP for a stage 1 and an easy to use attack that could snowball to heavy damage. She was used with a lot of different cards that carried over from the ex era sets but after those cards rotated out and stronger cards got released in Legends Awakened the card got forgotten and was no longer considered a serious meta deck for high tier play. That remained true even when the HGSS sets started releasing but being the deck builder that I am I put together a deck that allows Blissey to perform and take advantage of her colorless type hitting Garchomp C Lv. X for weakness and a few other dragons.

Notes and strategy: It’s no secret that Double Colorless Energy make a night and day difference in any format it’s in and when it came back in HGSS every pokemon that could make use of it got better. Heck, GardiGallade made a whole comeback entirely thanks to that card. Blissey is nowhere near that level of power but DCE allows her to function sort of as a quick hitting stage 1 most similar to Donphan Prime. With a DCE attached and grabbing an energy from the discard pile Blissey can potentially hit for 50 damage for 1 attachment without hitting your bench for damage and with the potential to get stronger every turn as you keep attacking and grabbing energies with her effect. Being colorless, you get the appealing bonus of killing Garchomp C Lv X in one shot if you can just hit it for 60 damage which isn’t difficult at all with Blissey. It’s also easy for you to include 1 Blissey from Platinum here for some mini healing every turn and another outlet to discard energies for your main Blissey to grab.

Broken Time-Space x3 Roseanne's Research x4 Professor Oak's New Theory x4 Felicity's Drawing x3 Bebe's Search x1 Professor Elm's Training Method x1 Luxury Ball x1 Pokemon Communication x2 Night Maintenance x1 Expert Belt x1 Switch x1

Everything I mentioned so far are indeed nice perks but the deck obviously isn’t perfect otherwise it would have been top tier. The aforementioned Donphan Prime also entered the formats when Blissey could use all these new cards and it was a very strong pokemon for as long as it was around. As the strongest and fastest hitting fighting type pokemon it poses a problem for Blissey and this is where Glalie comes in. With a stadium in play and a DCE Glalie can kill Donphan in one hit if it’s not holding an Expert Belt and even then a huge hit like that will trouble Donphan for sure. The water coverage can come in handy in other situations as well as an easy way to OHKO Blaziken FB among other water weak pokemon.

Blissey x4 Chansey x4 Ninetales x3 Vulpix x4 Glalie x2 Snorunt x2 Mightyena x1 Poochyena x1 Pachirisu x1 Uxie x1

Ninetales also got released in HGSS and while it was usually associated with fire pokemon it works perfectly in this deck too as it combos with Blissey granting you good draw for a speedy set up while you can easily get the energy back with Blissey when you attack.

Double Colorless Energy x4 Fire Energy x9 Call Energy x2

Blissey Ninetales

Mightyena may seem random but it is also included as a counter hitter. Gengar cards were really popular and really strong in the era and the resistance they have over Blissey makes them very difficult to deal with. Especially since Gengars will hit for serious damage very easily. Glalie can still help here, hitting them enough for hopeful a 2 hit KO but as a darkness type pokemon Mightyena will also hit them for weakness while also resisting damage from Gengar and it’s also easy to power up thanks to DCE.

Lastly, the 1 Expert Belt included here can turn a lot of attacks into OHKOs when used and timed right. If you attach it on an attacker when your opponent has already taken 5 prizes you get to reap the benefits of the card and ignore its only drawback so keep this in mind and try to time it right if you can. Of course, if you can get a key KO by using it earlier than that then it may also be the best time to use it.

That’s all I got for this Blissey deck! In the right hands this can be a sweet little rogue deck without too many weaknesses. Hope you enjoyed this read and I’ll see you on the next article.