Hisuian Arcanine Deck Tech Draft

The release of Twilight Masquerade gave us a lot of new tools for the game. While the various versions of Ogerpon got the most attention, this deck focused on some other Pokemon, centered around the new Hisuian Arcanine.

This deck focuses on using the Proud Fangs attack to hit 120 damage for no energy. The requirement of needing damage on the bench is easy to work around. Froslass can add damage across the board, as it deals 10 damage during checkup to anything not named Froslass with an Ability. Mumkidori has an ability, letting you move up to 30 damage form one of your Pokemon to an opponent. Dodrio also has an ability, letting you put a damage counter on it to draw a card.

Most of the deck is the standard support package, with a few obvious differences. The deck runs Practice Court as a way to squeeze in slightly more damage and to destroy other stadiums in play. For the ACE SPEC, I use Unfair Stamp, since it is very easy for the Pokemon to be knocked out. Finally, this is probably the only deck in existence that used 4 copies of Grusha, as it is very easy for this deck to have no energy in play.

The game plan of the deck is simple. Get one of each of your support pieces in play, get damage on your bench, and swing with Arcanine. You will lose Pokemon, and this is fine. The deck runs the full 4/4 line of Growlithe and Arcanine, while Dodrio can act as a potent backup attacker if needed.

Overall, this is a silly deck that’s fun to play in casual settings. While it’ll never take out huge threats, it is surprisingly effective if it gets set up properly.