Scaling Up Single card interactions are not going to be enough to judge the impact of Bruvac the Grandiloquent, so we turn our attention to suites of cards that all interact in similar ways
There's two builds to the Pikachu ex deck that are especially effective at time of writing: Pikachu ex / Zapdos ex (Focused damage build) Pikachu ex / Zebstrika (Control build) Pikachu ex / Lt Surge (Energy build) We'll go through them all individually, but here's the essential upshot as to why Pikachu ex decks in any form rank highly in the Pokemon TCG Pocket best decks: Pikachu ex's attack is pretty overpowered
While I'm far from a Legacy expert, Isolate might be even better in the older format, since Deathrite Shaman shows up in nearly 50% of decks
Rakdos, the Showstopper bridges the very small gap between coin flip and chaos strategies, inviting you to integrate some coin flip cards and support in a color pair that tends to prefer full chaos decks
On the other hand, you can make this work for you pretty well in the right deck, and its a reasonable ramp engine for red decks