Lol, Marty and TR Shadow fixed the same amphy deck, so I started feeling left out on the whole lightning theme.... Thus, while scrolling through deck submissions, this deck caught my eye.... Lol, I get to fix a Dark amphy deck, ph33r ;x  

Dear Cassidy-
Recently I heard you were promoted to a deck mech on the Pojo and while I was a tad envious I was also really proud that finally a female player like myself was getting recognition in the gaming world because it isn't an easy thing.  Neither is making original decks that win anymore, it seems what with all the Kingdras, Steelixes and Magcargo decks out there now.  But I wanna be different and I cannot get this deck to work!  LOL  I've tweaked it at least four times now and everytime it just tanks so I figured you could help a fellow girlie gamer out and get this deck to work....please!  :)  Basically the strategy is to use the Dark Ampharos to it's fullest by whatever means necessary.  It's a good card and people agree it is but I can't get it work to save my life....so anything you can do would be of great help.  

Thanks-  GeneralCeles


4 Mareep  (the Headbutt one or the Thunder Jolt one)
4 Dark Flaafy
3 Dark Ampharos
3 Iggly  (Gaze, I find Pichu and Magby a bit drastic)
3 Cleffa
2 Smoochum (cause Metal sucks and I seem to run into tons of Steelix)

3 Bill
3 Elm
3 Double Gust
3 Thought Wave Machine
3 Trader
2 Capsule or Super Retrieval ( to power up the Shock Blast if I'm low)
3 Focus
3 Rocket Hideout
3 E. Charge  (to bring back Darkness that's discarded)
3 Double Gust

12 Electric    4 Darkness

So yeah that's my deck, hope you can help me!   

Firstly, you mentioned double gust twice, so I'm assuming that's a typo (or at least I hope it is O.O ).  You're still over one card if I'm counting correctly, but that's ok, we'll fix that later...

Pokemon:

Good God there's a Smoochum in this deck *cowers in fear*.   Lol, I really don't like Smoochum much for removal-- Flips really suck, they never come out to your advantage when it counts =\.  So ditch them, add another cleffa (in MMF it's best to take advantage of the few draw cards out there), add 2 genisis gligar for TecH vs. Tyrouge,  and 2 Tyrouge because TRC just likes Tyrouge in MMF/Standard/Modified/Whatever it's being called now.  The amphy line looks pretty good, but I've talked it over with some friends, and we think that the Neo2 Mareep(headbut) would work better in this deck. The reason being is that, first of all, Neo2 has more HP. Second, with the Genisis Mareep, you gather lightning through its first attack. More lightning on Mareep = More lightning to discard when evolved to Amphy.  Our goal is to discard only 1 lightning from Amphy per attack if possible.

Trainers:

All right, max out on the Bills, Elms and Traders.  Thought Wave Machine.... *sighs* This card is to flip oriented.  And I also don't like the whole "Your turn is over" thing.  It CAN be potentially devistating to your opponent if you get REALLY lucky, but odds are you just waste your turn =\.  Change the bands to Gold Berries and add one. I like Gold Berry better in MMF, and if you happen to come up against a 'rouge, you can always send up gligar.  Drop 2 Energy Charge--again, flip oriented, so one should be fine just in case.  

Energy:

Amphy only needs one Lightning to use its attack, so methinks dropping 4 lighting for 4 recycle energy would be a good idea. Recycle can help pay for retreat costs, and the attack, and best thing is--you get it back once it's discarded.  

Revised Dark Amphy Deck:

19 Pokemon:

2 Tyrouge
2 Gligar (Genisis)
4 Mareep (Discovery)
4 Dark Flaafy
3 Dark Ampharos
4 Cleffa

Trainers: 25

4 Bill
4 Gold Berry
4 Elm
3 Double Gust
4 Trader
2 Capsule
3 Rockets Hideout Gym
1 Energy Charge

Energy: 16

8 Electric
4 Darkness
4 Recycle

Well, that's it for me, wrapping up the Ampharos Deck Fix Week.  I wish you luck, General Celes, have fun stomping archtypes!
~TRC