Belo Horizonte Regionals GLC Results

The GLC side event at the Belo Horizonte Regional gathered 21 players and showed a varied meta, with a notable presence of Psychic, Fighting, and Water decks. After four Swiss rounds, the field cut to a Top 8 where known strategies and creative techs shared the spotlight in a tournament full of memorable lists and plays!

Type breakdown (rough snapshot of the room):

🌀 5 Psychic, 💧 5 Water, 🥊 4 Fighting, 🌿 3 Grass, 🐉 2 Dragon, 🔥 1 Fire, leaving one list unidentified — the event’s official missingno.

8th - Pedro Portugal - Psychic Lost Zone

Opening the Top 8 is a Lost Zone Psychic list. The deck’s win condition is to quickly send cards to the Lost Zone to enable Sableye and its devastating Lost Mine attack. Tools like Colress’s Experiment, Comfey, Lost Vacuum, and Lost Blender accelerate the Lost Zone count, getting the deck to the 10-card threshold reliably and keeping resource flow steady. It’s a strategy that rewards careful hand management and precise decision-making each turn.

7th — Lucas Carvalho (LKA92) — Psychic Munkidori

A clean, archetype-faithful Munkidori list utilizing two basic Dark energies to trigger Adrena-Brain. Paired with Giratina and Gengar, the deck cycles attackers from the discard back into play, maintaining relentless pressure on the board. By redistributing damage counters and generating continual threats, LKA92 demonstrated that Munkidori remains a respected and consistent pick in the Psychic scene.

6th — Diogo Anache — Double-Hit Grass

The Top 8 surprise: Diogo Anache piloting an unusual Double-Hit Grass deck built around Pokémon that attack twice per turn, like Jumpluff and Dipplin, enabled by their unique abilities. To scale that power, Diogo ran Lurantis and Lilligant, both with Sunny Day, which add +20 damage per hit to attacks of Grass Pokémon — turning double hits into massive damage outputs.

Unfortunately, Diogo didn’t play his Top 8 match because he wasn’t aware of the cut and lost by default. A real shame — the deck looked like it would have been one of the most exciting to watch.

5th — Rodrigo Santos (Digão Mestre) — Dragon “Chop n’ Roll”

Rodrigo brought his take on "Chop n’ Roll", a classic Dragon build that uses Haxorus to handle the many opponents abusing special energies. The key change in his list was replacing Parallel City with Lost City — a double-edged but strategic swap. The stadium sends knocked-out Pokémon straight to the Lost Zone, which is perfect for shutting down powerful basic attackers that get recycled repeatedly (think Snorlax, Okidogi, etc.). That tech paid off and produced a solid tournament performance.

4th — Matheus Moyses & 3rd — Rafael “Rputal” Putal — Fighting — RDT

Both players ran the same list and the results speak for themselves: two top-4 spots. The performances from Rputal and Matheus cement Ghouls’s "Rocks, Dogi, Ting-Lu" (RDT) Fighting as arguably the format’s top deck right now — consistent, fast, and oppressive from turn one.

Key pieces in the list:

• Lunatone — consistent draw engine
• Solrock — turn-one threat with potential to donk
• Fighting Gong — a situationally excellent searcher for Basic Pokémon or Basic Energy
• Premium Power Pro — essentially Fighting’s version of Electro Power to help close out KOs
• Marshadow — an attacker that can become untouchable for a turn after scoring a KO, taking advantage of Ting-Lu's spread damage.

The plan is straightforward: apply early pressure with low-cost attackers while assembling Okidogi (often twice per game) to trade prizes 2-for-1 and take control of the game’s tempo. Aggressive, technical, and perfectly tuned to the current meta.

2nd — Rafael Marques — Dragon featuring Ultra Necrozma

A Chop n’ Roll variant, but without the Haxorus line — historically the go-to answer for the feared Okidogi. Rafael resurrected the somewhat forgotten Ultra Necrozma with Luster of Downfall, a card that once featured heavily in the early GLC era but fell out of favor due to awkward energy requirements.

In this meta, Luster of Downfall proved its worth: the attack discards an energy from the opponent, which can shut off Okidogi’s energy-based ability, remove its special energy, and allow Ultra Necrozma to one-shot Okidogi. A bold, clever tech that turned an apparent weakness into a meta solution — and it carried Rafael all the way to the final.

1st — Lucas Stano — Psychic Spread

Closing out the Top 8 with style, Lucas Stano piloted an off-radar Psychic Spread list. The deck centers on Gourgeist, Uxie, and Mismagius, each leveraging Eerie Voice / Painful Memories style attacks that place damage counters across the opponent’s board for a single Psychic energy.

The list’s coup de grâce is Dusknoir with Sinister Hand, an ability that lets Lucas move damage counters freely between the opponent’s Pokémon, focusing them to secure precise KOs. Gourgeist’s second attack, Spirit Scream, for two Psychic energies, can leave both Active Pokémon at just 10 HP, setting up immediate follow-up KOs.

Lucas read the metagame perfectly — he exploited the popularity of Ghouls’s Fighting lists and the general absence of Machoke techs to freely spread damage and dictate board state. A sharp meta call and flawless execution earned him a well-deserved title.

Final Thoughts

The GLC side event in Belo Horizonte was a showcase of creativity and adaptation — off-meta lists, bold techs, and clean reads of the format all paid dividends. With Fighting asserting dominance, Psychic lists innovating, and Grass and Dragon strategies still delivering surprises, one message was clear: in GLC, readers of the meta who are willing to take smart risks get rewarded.

Big congratulations to everyone who played — and here’s to the next gym battle. 💪✨