>>27003366 essentially is right. What amazing decks were people expecting to rule the PRC-on Standard format? All Garbodor does is double down the meta on the decks that were already going to be good:>M Ray>Yveltal>Zygarde/Carbink>Dark/Dragons>M SceptileNone of which rely on abilities outside turn 2 or 3 anyway (granted they all suffer under turn 1 ability lock, but as
>>27003424 pointed out, this comes at a cost). Of the four decks that rely 100% on abilities in our current meta, two are rotating (Trevenant, Bronzong), one is losing an essential part of the deck (Vileplume/Vespiquen losing Battle Compressor), and one would struggle hopelessly in a high-HP, NM-less meta (Greninja).
The only things I've seen that aren't currently in our meta but people were promising would dominate the new Standard format are M Alakazam and Volcanion. Both of these decks will struggle to Garbodor, but I think it's a bit premature and foolish to assume these decks are even going to be that successful at all.
M Alakazam loses D-Valley and Mystery Energy. It loses Crobat for damage spreading, although it could use Trevenant BREAK without Trevenant XY. But most importantly it loses all forms of scooping up, relying entirely on Devolution Spray and Alakazam EX's attack to spread damage around without a secondary attacker.
And while I don't personally know shit about how a Volcanion EX/Volcanion deck would work, without Blacksmith, it seems like it'd be a slow-going deck. Maybe it would exist only as a foil to M Sceptile decks.
All of this is assuming we don't get a reprint of Tool Scrapper, Megaphone or Xerosic, by the way. There's still one set before Cities.
