“What is Ice Rider’s matchup spread? My team is considering it for Team Challenge but we don’t have much experience with it.” (Also, if anyone wants to see my matchups across the two tournaments: here’s the first event and here’s the second. I will discuss these and other potential card changes in some of the Q & A section that follows. Currently, Le and I have been working with an updated list that replaces the two Switch with a second Air Balloon and a copy of Leon. This 60 felt strong, but there are still possible changes that could be made.

Ice Trae Tate Whitesell Ice Rider Calyrex V (45) Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX (46) Sobble (41) Drizzile (56) Inteleon (58) Marshadow (81) Marnie (56) Melony (146) Boss's Orders (58) Professor's Research (60) Evolution Incense (163) Quick Ball (179) Reset Stamp (206) Switch (183) Level Ball (76) Capacious Bucket (156) Air Balloon (156) Path to the Peak (148) Water Energy (93) (For the first tournament, one of the Boss’s Orders was a second Professor’s Research, but I believe three Boss’s Orders is more correct it certainly felt better in the second tournament.) With a number of questions coming in from around the community on our list choices and how to play the deck, I decided to use this article as a big Q & A session, answering the community’s most pressing questions regarding Ice Trae.įirst off, here’s the list I used for my back-to-back Top 4 appearances. I’ve put in a ton of games between online tournaments and the PTCGO ladder, and discussed the list in great detail with Le, Isaiah, Jake, and Caio, and I feel like I know the deck better than almost anything else I’ve played in the past year. Ice Trae is one of the most fun and skill-intensive decks I have played in quite some time, and when I return to real-life tournament play in the coming weeks, I wouldn’t be surprised if I sleeve it up for pretty much every event in this format. Some modifications have been made to the original list-either by the original creators or by others who have picked it up-but Le’s and Isaiah’s original skeleton is quickly taking hold in the community as the best way to play Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX.

Since then, Le took his own turn piloting Ice Trae to an online event finals, and Isaiah Cheville, Caio Paoli, and Jake Santiago have also found success with the deck. With the NBA semifinals looming large in his mind, Isaiah decided to name this new deck “Ice Trae,” after Atlanta Hawks star Trae Youn Lacking time to play in many tournaments that week, the pair passed the list on to me, and I placed Top 4 in two tournaments in two days- a testament to the deckbuilding skills of Le and Isaiah, and also to the strength of Ice Rider and the incredible potential of the Inteleon engine. Well-known player I saiah Bradner and my teammate Le Bui combined their brainpower to produce a new Ice Rider deck skeleton, using a thick Inteleon line as the primary support Pokemon. Before long, though, some players began to question whether Cinccino was truly the best partner for Ice Rider. Within the first two weeks of the set’s legality in online tournaments, Ice Rider variants using Cinccino as a support Pokemon began popping up, some with solid results. Of course, alongside the Shadow Horse, Chilling Reign also brought us the Ice Horse- and Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX, which was the less-hyped of the two, has now proven to be a force in the Standard format in its own right. Hello again Flipside readers! Last time I wrote, I covered one of the big new archetypes coming out of the Chilling Reign set: Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX. “Ice Trae Q&A” Answering Community Questions on Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX/Inteleon

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