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Sceptile/Muk
Sceptile ex and Muk ex Types used Major cards Sceptile ex, Sceptile, Muk ex, and Wurmple Era 2004

Sceptile/Muk was a Pokémon Trading Card Game deck archetype that saw moderate success during the 2003-2004 season, though it had largely fallen out of favor by the 2004 World Championships, due in part to its relatively poor matchups against Blaziken-based decks and Gardevoir ex-based decks (such as RAMBO and Gardevoir/Magneton/Delcatty, respectively).

Strategy

Wurmple

Depending on the opponent's deck and the state of the field, Sceptile/Muk focused either on 1) locking down opposing Poké-POWERS and Poké-BODIES with Muk ex's Toxic Gas or 2) attacking the opponent with Sceptile ex while using a combination of the non-ex Sceptile's Energy Trans and Pokémon Nurse to prevent it from being Knocked Out. Many decks of the era relied heavily on Poké-POWERS and Poké-BODIES, so Toxic Gas could greatly hamper an opponent's strategy. Muk ex, though a mediocre attacker on its own, could provide enough of a hindrance to buy time for the user to set up Sceptile ex on the bench. Because Toxic Gas only functioned while Muk ex was active,

Key cards

• Sceptile ex -
• Sceptile -
• Muk ex -
• Wurmple -
• Pokémon Nurse -

Typical decklist

The deck list appearing below is not official; it is meant to represent an average build of the archetype, not specifically constructed for any regional metagame. Being that this is merely an archetype, a player may wish to change any part of this deck when building his or her own version. The list shown assumes an Expedition through EX Hidden Legends format. Potential later additions may be listed in the Possible tech cards section.

Quantity	Card	Type	Rarity
2×	Sceptile ex
2×	Sceptile
2×	Grovyle
4×	Treecko
2×	Muk ex
3×	Grimer
4×	Wurmple
3×	Professor Oak's Research	Su
3×	TV Reporter	Su
3×	Steven's Advice	Su
3×	Professor Elm's Training Method	Su
2×	Oracle	Su
2×	Pokémon Nurse	Su
1×	Town Volunteers	Su
3×	Rare Candy	T
2×	Switch	T
2×	Warp Point	T
1×	Low Pressure System	St
2×	Boost Energy	E
14×	Grass Energy	E	—

Possible tech cards

Sceptile

The following cards were sometimes used in Sceptile/Muk in place of certain cards included in the above list.

• Sceptile -
• Dunsparce -
• Roselia -
• Copycat -
• Pokémon Reversal -

See also

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.