Snorlax Snorlax Stall Tier 2 Stall Basic Single Prize

Stall has long had a presence in Expanded, and was even a top tier deck at times. Given how optimized Expanded decks are, a deck that targets their resources can sometimes be too much to handle. Snorlax Stall does exactly that, through a variety of options: some decks can be shut down by Snorlax locking a Pokémon in the Active Spot, while others are walled by Mimikyu or just ran out of Energy through the use of disruptive Supporters.

As with any Stall deck, the way to win is to have a way to exploit a weakness in each common archetype. Unfortunately for Snorlax, that's hard to do right now. Regidrago, in particular, has a lot of options, and Timeless GX and Trifrost are hard to handle, especially together. There are also cards such as Escape Rope, Silent Lab and Marnie which can feature in many different archetypes and that can be cause problems for Stall.

Note that there are two Japanese-exclusive promos that are often ran in this kind of deck: Palace Book and Players' Ceremony. The closest replacement for both of them would be Tropical Beach, which is hard to come by for most players. It might also possible to build the deck differently, perhaps using Zacian V or even Boxed Orders as a draw engine instead.

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