toedscruel pokemon card value 017/182 - Paradox Rift Captured in a crystal Toedscruel ex 022/197 Obsidian Flames

Patrick's brilliant deck, Next Level Blue, not only catapulted the phrase "next level" into the Title: Tom LaPille's Next Level Blue Format: Extended 4 Counterspell 1 Academy Ruins 1 Breeding Pool 4 Flooded Strand 1 Hallowed Fountain 8 Island 4 Polluted Delta 1 Steam Vents 1 Tree of Tales 4 Tarmogoyf 3 Trinket Mage 3 Spell Snare 4 Thirst for Knowledge 4 Chrome Mox 4 Counterbalance 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Pithing Needle 4 Sensei's Divining Top 3 Threads of Disloyalty 1 Tormod's Crypt 3 Vedalken Shackles *3 Ancient Grudge *1 Engineered Explosives *2 Global Ruin *2 Krosan Grip *3 Sower of Temptation *1 Threads of Disloyalty *3 Tormod's Crypt This is a blue control deck through and through, playing Counterspell and Spell Snare for early countermagic, the eternally potent Counterbalance and Sensei's Divining Top to lock your opponent out of the game, and Vedalken Shackles

On top of this it costs life and kills your normal draw putting you on somewhat of a self imposed clock

In Party decks specifically, its still pretty solid

Its crackling lightning bolts in the card artwork come into play with the special "Tag Bolt GX" attack on the card and manage to make even the adorable Pikachu look a bit more menacing alongside the dark Zekrom

Almost all of my own deck creations include four copies of 1) Chatter of the Squirrel, because it's cheap and fast