Gdańsk Regional: what the top 8 played

Aarni Karjala won the Gdańsk Regional Championships with Slowking, and the Dragapult 60 that won Louisville and Puebla made the top 8 twice more, in 3rd and 8th. Dragapult held four of the eight seats, and the other four went to four different decks.

Gdańsk ran on 31 October and 1 November in Gdańsk, Poland, with 1,739 players in Masters. The records below are from the Limitless standings, and every name links to the full 60 on its list page.

The top 8

1. Aarni Karjala, Slowking, 14–1–2
2. Finn Lasse Fries, Rocket's Honchkrow, 13–3–1
3. Vincenzo Cipolla, Dragapult, 12–3–1
4. Miloslav Posledni, Crustle, 12–3–1
5. Tord Reklev, Dragapult Dudunsparce, 11–2–2
6. Nathan Bonavia Zammit, Greninja, 11–2–2
7. Maciej Chojnacki, Dragapult, 11–3–1
8. Yoann Barszezak, Dragapult, 11–3–1

The same Dragapult 60, four Regionals running

Cipolla and Barszezak played the same 60, and it is card for card the list Riley McKay won Louisville with. Yuya Kogai took it to 5th at Nice, and Andrew Hedrick and Caleb Rogerson met with it in the Puebla final. That is four Regionals in a row with this exact list in the top 8. The Puebla recap has the earlier variants.

The other two Dragapult players moved further from it:

• Reklev (5th) cut all four Crushing Hammer for a second Dunsparce, a Dudunsparce ex, a Shaymin and a Dawn.
• Chojnacki (7th) went down to two Dragapult ex and dropped the Dunsparce line. In their place the list plays Snorunt and Froslass, Moltres, Yveltal, Special Red Card and one Team Rocket's Watchtower, with one fewer Crushing Hammer, Night Stretcher and Risky Ruins.

Every Dragapult list from Gdańsk is on the Dragapult hub on DeckSequence, beside the Dragapult lists from the earlier Regionals, and each list page shows the opening-hand odds for that exact 60.

The winner, and the other three

Karjala's Slowking is the same 60 Karjala finished 13th with at Louisville. It runs four Slowpoke and three Slowking with four Mega Kangaskhan ex, two Latias ex, two Metagross and two Kyurem, and plays four Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking with four Academy at Night. It is on the Slowking hub.

Fries's Rocket's Honchkrow is three cards off Jose Santos's 8th-place list from Recife. It cuts one Night Stretcher, the Ultra Ball and the Brave Bangle for a Pokégear 3.0, a Team Rocket's Mimikyu and a fourth Poké Pad. It is on the Rocket's Honchkrow hub.

Posledni's Crustle is the lowest Pokémon count in the top 8: ten, made up of four Mega Kangaskhan ex and three each of Dwebble and Crustle. It carries 15 Energy across eight different Energy cards, led by four Mist Energy and four Growing Grass Energy. It is on the Crustle hub.

Bonavia Zammit's Greninja builds its 23 Pokémon around four lines: Greninja ex, Mega Froslass ex, Dusknoir and Mega Starmie ex. Bonavia Zammit played the same 60 at Frankfurt and at Nice before this 6th place. It is on the Greninja hub.

What the lists agreed on

No card made all eight lists. Four made seven: Lillie's Determination, Ultra Ball, Poké Pad and Night Stretcher. Fries's Honchkrow skipped the first two and Posledni's Crustle the last two. Boss's Orders, Buddy-Buddy Poffin, Meowth ex, Fezandipiti ex and Psychic Energy each made six.

Eight lists from one event is a thin sample. What stands out is the spread: Puebla's top 8 was six seats of Dragapult, and Gdańsk's was four Dragapult lists and four decks that each appeared once.

Taking a list home

Each list page has the full 60, its mulligan rate and opening odds, and a button that deals sample opening hands. Copy one into your own decks in DeckSequence and the numbers recalculate as you change it, so you can see what Reklev's Dudunsparce swap does to your openings before you test it. Save the change as a new version and the matches you log stay with the version you played. Deck versions explains how that works.

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