Hello everyone. It’s hard to believe that Dallas could be topped as the largest Regionals in Masters TCG, but it happened. The sheer amount of people in Collinsville created a diverse meta with many different Decks succeeding. Unsurprisingly, Buzzwole-GX decks and Zoroark-GX decks reigned supreme once again. I thought that the new behemoths of Ultra Prism could stand up to the gods of BKT-CIN, but apparently not. Many players strayed from new decks, because of inexperience or inconsistency, in Empoleon or Magnezone.

As for me, I was unable to justify playing Cloverfield into the heavy meta of Buzzwole-GX and Gardevoir-GX/Zoroark-GX I predicted. Unfortunately, my run on Day 1 presented many good matchups I would’ve loved to hit. Espeon-GX/Garbodor was what I settled on because I thought it would be a good enough meta call. Several of them made Day 2, but fizzled out among the matchups presented there. The Parallel City version has a better matchup against Zoroark-GX, so perhaps I would’ve had more success than others.

This article — “The Garbodor Gathering” – A Recap of Collinsville and First Look into Upr Expanded — was originally published on SixPrizes.