Community Gym Leader Challenge Deck Lists

A Guide to Control for Gym Leader Challenge

Twilight wrote a guide to Control Gym Leader Challenge that you don't want to miss. What a great read on the various control archetypes in the best format!

Lost Bomb

Lost Zone Psychic creator, Tzubi, is here with a refresher on the OG list that disrupted the GLC world 2 years ago. This time, Dusknoir partners up with Sableye to wreak havoc on your opponent's board. Check it out!

Whales from Brazil

Brunno Nevs is here from the powerhouse GLC scene in Brazil! Brunno is sharing his many-tournament winning Water list including Wailord and Kyogre.

Wet Boy Summer

Marimbist11 here with a cracked Water deck! Come check out the fastest water deck and see it in action!

Fire Mill - Meltdown

Espio, the king of Fire Mill, is here with the latest and greatest Fire Mill list! Check out how to mill your opponent before they can take their prizes.

Hitmoncombo

Andre Castela is back with another spotlight after winning the GLC Summer Championship and making the CardBoard Warriors Hall of Fame with the Hitmoncombo. Check it out!

Top Deck Simulator

NOLOAF graciously shares with us this exciting and unique Colorless deck list. NOLO says Colorless is king - do you agree?

Leviathan

Wheatr back again with a new whale of a deck! Wailord Control, aka Leviathan, is the latest powerful deck that utilizes a giant wall and control tools to carry you to victory.

Hydro Jet

Accoblubber is back with another amazing article and another amazing deck. Use Water's support lines to attack aggressively and accurately and leave your opponent in the dust!

Let's Get Crazy!

Geffrey Van der Veken drops the hottest mix tape on Crazy Code! Many, many time tournament winner and possible online GLC greatest shares the history and many variations of Crazy Code throughout GLC's lifespan.

Goth Mom Psychic

GLC Handlock? Gothitelle disrupts your opponents gameplan and takes you to 4-0s at locals. Come check out Joey's article on his tournament winning Gothitelle list!

Ancient GarganCoal

AllAboutThatBaisch is back with another banger of a deck. Perhaps the strongest fighting deck at the moment, the new Ancient fighting cards come in handy to make a powerhouse of a setup deck!

Light Metal

D34DM4N14C shares this busted metal list that won a recent online tournament and has done very well overall. It's fast and low to the ground and plays a unique line of metal Pokemon!

Devo-Noir

AllAboutThatBaisch is back with another banger article. This time he explores his badge winning Psychic deck with Dusknoir and friends. It's a very powerful deck that makes great use of the devo TM. Check it out!

Water Control - All Hail the King!

Disrupt your opponent's game plan, control the flow of the game and don't stop until your opponent is out of cards!

Who needs Archeops? - Turbo Colorless

Who needs inconsistent stage 2 Pokemon such as Archeops and Porygon-Z for energy acceleration when you have the Turbo Energize TM and 3 double energies? Come check out a tournament winning list that will surprise you with how fast and consistent it is!

Updating Psychic in a post Paradox Rift Landscape

Subject 00-147 shows us his method for updating his Psychic list now that we are living in the Paradox Rift. Get some ideas for updating your own lists here!

Extreme Speed

Wheatr here with my very own tournament-winning Turbo Fire list! Scorch your opponents and burn them down before they know what hit them!

Vitality Spring

Harri, the newest CardBoard Warriors Water champion, gives us a rundown on his Vitality Spring Blastoise list in great detail! This is a must read, and great way to play water!

Spark Assault -- Opportunist Lightning

Subject 00-147's spread lightning list is a unique blend of powerful, low maintenance attackers, new spread attackers and unique tool choices that combine to overwhelm the opponent.

Dusk Buddies

Watto and Sarmachus elaborate on the newest Psychic hype train, Dusk Buddies! This is a really creative list originally built by Watto and adopted by Sarmachus who played it successfully at NAIC. Come check it out!

Archeops Buster Metal

Accoblubber coming back with another wild list that completely dominates the BDIF! This metal list plays Earthen Shield Bastiodon which nullifies special energy attackers completely. An amazing list with great results so far!

Primal Wings

Andre Castela wrote up a wonderful article on the all-powerful Archeops from his tournament winning Colorless Gym Leader Challenge deck. Come check out what makes Archeops Colorless the top deck and how to play it!

Paralyzing Arcana

Sarmachus shares a spicy and powerful psychic build utilizing some very underrated cards and combos that have never been seen before!

Pillars of the Earth

Leonardo, winner of the original CBW 1K event, is back with a new busted deck, the Seal of Antiquity! Regigigas stall proved to be strong online where he won with this immovable wall of a deck.

Turbo Fairy

Watto shares the details and strategies best performing Fairy deck in GLC history! With placings of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in GLC tournaments, he is only missing one placing to hit for the cycle!

Flying HitmONE Bros

Jeff Baisch dominated the competition with a 4-0 win in a previous CardBoard Warriors GLC webcam event. He details the deck list here and how the Hitmonbros won the night!

Lunar Pain

Subject00147 has reached top cut of many GLC tournaments with this unique and powerful psychic spread deck. 6 prizes at once? Tell me more!

Blue Orb

Baaauz shares his amazing Archie's Kyogre build that he went undefeated with at EUIC. No octillery or Inteleon needed, Archie's is all you need to drown your opponents.

Strangling Vines

Sopko, great friend to the CardBoard Warriors, shares his Grass Control list that he used to win locals. If you're a greedy deck builder, watch out because this list will punish you!

Welcome to the Landfill

Accoblubber is back with another great deck! This Garbodor list shuts down its opponents hard with the best ability lock in Gym Leader Challenge. Hit opponents for 160 damage on turn 2 and never look back!

Fire Mill

Come check out JeoshuaObladi's explosive fire mill list! Leave your opponent's burned, confused and out of cards.

Picking Fights with Single Strike

SoreThumb created a really unique Single Strike Gym Leader Challenge deck list - an underexplored archetype with lots of potential. Check it out!

The Fastest Deck in GLC

Phoenixfire let's us in on how he built the fastest deck in GLC, and zoomed his way to first place in a recent CardBoard Warriors tournament!

Coal Madness

How JeoshuaObladi cracked fighting (with some help from his friends)

Red Banquet

Bcevasco, resident GLC topper, explains his dark list that has won several tournaments. It's a low to the ground dark list that can take knockouts quickly, and win the prize race with Guzzlord's Red Bandquet attack.

An Ancient Spin on a GLC Classic

Accoblubber, AKA Rodger, shares another way to play Colorless, the highest performing type of Silver Tempest. Two energy accelerators? No slaking?! Come find out!

Grand Forest

JeoshuaObladi wrote the full history of the Jumpluff archetype

The Call of the Dragon

Energan shares the dragon list he used to become the CardBoard Warriors Grand Champion and enter the Hall of Fame! Don't miss it!

Infiltrator

Amazing GLC player, Robbie0301, shares his awesome psychic Gym Leader Challenge deck list with us today! Robbie has won several tournaments with this list (or very similar), so read on to learn his secrets!

Primal Law

DaveToy and JeoshuaObladi built a wild one with Dracovish, the vishi fishy. Come see how they won a bunch of tournaments with this list!

3 Prizes, One Turn

Sopko here with his turbo Dark list starring the new Crobat from Silver Tempest!

Flying Metal

Looking for a spicy metal list? Look no further! Sopko shares the Flying Metal deck with us.

Lost Circle

Deck wizard Tzubi is back with another unique addition to the GLC format. Lost Circle is a lost zone spread deck with the turbo Pokestop engine.

Waterstorm

The great flood is coming

HitmonChamps

At long last, JeoshuaObladi shares with us his GLC tournament winning and highly competitive Hitmonbros list.

Revamped Riptide

Water in a ban event? No problem! MrWhatMD shares this unique Swampert and Feraligatr list that was used to get 2nd place!

Toxic Gas

Weezing is one of the most toxic Pokémon in the entire Pokémon universe. Each of Weezing's heads contains a different toxin. So, it should be no surprise that the most toxic deck in the Gym Leader Challenge format features Galarian Weezing.

Turbo Combo

Tzubi tells us about his never before seen Hitmonbros list. Having seen tournament success is a rare feat for a fighting deck. Come learn at the dojo!

A Forest of Giant Plants

Tankmin, a top-tier Gym Leader Challenge player, shares his ridiculously successful grass list with us.

Yoshi's Grass Island

Yoshi shares with us his premier grass list. Want to win a tournament? Look no further.

Death by a Thousand Licks

Maggara's amazing Colorless deck with a thousand win conditions

Bro Code - A guide to Slowbro in GLC

You're going to want to take a look, bro

Double the Heat

Check out the hottest new fire list by Zeno

Fishy's Jump

JeoshuaObladi shares his latest tournament winning list with us - Rapid Strike Water!

Dreams Come Alive

JeoshuaObaldi, one of the great GLC players, shares his tournament winning Psychic list with us!

Blastsire

Want to use the new POGO blastoise? Look no further.

Rain Dancing

Bcevasco won the first tournament of Season 1, learn how he built and played his tournament winning Rain Dance list.

A Dance with Dragons

Taming dragons is no easy task, so pkmnJohn breaks down his tournament winning list for us.

Sasso the unstoppable?

An interview with Sasso, the 15 year old Wunderkind who is taking the Pokemon TCG world by storm.

Astral Radiance Ready Venusaur/Rillaboom

A new and improved venusaur/rillaboom list with a couple of suprising (?) cuts. With the recent colorless control targeted bans, could this archetype become BDIF?