BASIC STRATEGY

Set up your board by getting Poltchageist in play alongside several Teal Mask Ogerpon ex. Evolve Poltchageist into Sinistcha and attach a Grass Energy to it to power up its Spill the Tea attack, which does 70 damage for each Basic [G] Energy card you discard from your Pokémon in play (up to three). Get additional Basic [G] Energy into play with Teal Mask Ogerpon ex’s Teal Dance Ability, which lets you attach a Basic [G] Energy card to that Teal Mask Ogerpon ex from your hand once each turn.

KEY CARDS

• Sinistcha TWM 22

• Teal Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 25

• Bug Catching Set

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Sinistcha ex TWM 23 as a late game attacker that shuffles your Basic Grass Energy back into the deck.

• Salvatore to increase the odds of a turn one knockout with Sinistcha’s Spill the Tea.

• Additional copies of Earthen Vessel to further ease the difficulty of having energy in hand for Teal Mask Ogerpon ex’s Teal Dance Ability.

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Play down and evolve Grookey and Applin into Thwackey and Dipplin, respectively. With the Festival Grounds stadium card in play, attack with Dipplin’s Do the Wave attack, which does 20 damage for each of your Benched Pokémon. Then, because of the effect of Dipplin’s Festival Lead Ability, attack once again before your opponent starts their turn. With Dipplin in the Active Spot, make use of Thwackey’s Boom Boom Groove Ability, which lets you search your deck for any 1 card if your Active Pokémon has the Festival Lead Ability.

KEY CARDS

• Dipplin TWM 18

• Thwackey TWM 15

• Festival Grounds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Goldeen TWM 44 and/or Swirlix TWM 89 to be present as Basic Pokémon with the Festival Lead Ability, making it easier to take advantage of Thwackey’s Boom Boom Groove Ability.

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BASIC STRATEGY

Evolve Slugma into Magcargo and, with the aid of cards like Ciphermaniac’s Codebreaking, Team Star Grunt, and Morpeko TWM 72, manipulate the top card of your or your opponent’s deck. Then, attack with Magcargo ex’s Ground Burn, which does 140 damage plus 140 more damage for each Energy card discarded in this way.

KEY CARDS

• Magcargo ex TWM 72

• Entei V BRS 22

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Pairing Magcargo ex with the Lost Engine and Magcargo LOR 22, which, as a single Prize Pokémon, does 220 damage for three Energy with its Lost Volcano attack.

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Evolve Chimchar into Infernape with Rare Candy. With Infernape’s Pyro Dance Ability, which lets you attach a Basic [R] and a Basic [F] Energy from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like, power up Koraidon ex’s Kaiser Tackle attack, which does 280 damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon in exchange for doing 60 damage to itself.

KEY CARDS

• Infernape TWM 33

• Koraidon ex TEF 120

• Entei V BRS 22

• Radiant Charizard CRZ 20

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Running Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex in place of Radiant Charizard, opening up the deck’s Radiant spot so that it can run Radiant Greninja in its stead.

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On early turns, use Absol and its Swirling Disaster attack to spread damage on your opponent’s Pokémon. As early as possible, evolve Snorunt into Froslass so that its Freezing Shroud Ability starts to put a damage counter on each Pokémon with an Ability during each Pokémon Checkup. Using Professor Sada’s Vitality and Dark Patch, power up Brute Bonnet’s Relentless Power attack which does 50 damage plus 50 more damage for each damage counter on your opponent’s Active Pokémon.

KEY CARDS

• Brute Bonnet TWM 118

• Froslass TWM 53

• Absol ASR 97

• Professor Sada’s Vitality

• Dark Patch

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Run Froslass as a partner for Greninja ex.

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Evolve Finizen up into the Palafin into the Palafin from Twilight Masquerade. Use its Zero to Hero Ability to then swap it into a Palafin ex from the deck. Attack with Palafin ex’s Giga Impact attack, which does 250 damage but prevents you from attacking with that same Palafin ex on the following turn.

KEY CARDS

• Palafin ex TWM 61

• Palafin TWM 60

• Palafin OBF 62

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Finding Palafin ex a nice, cozy home somewhere in your collection binder.

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Using Miraidon ex’s Tandem Unit, get Shinx into play and then use Rare Candy to evolve it up into Luxray ex. Attack with Luxray ex’s Piercing Gaze attack, which does 120 damage and forces your opponent to reveal their hand and lets you discard one of the cards you find there. Alternatively, attack with Iron Hands ex and its Amp You Very Much attack to take an additional Prize card when taking a knockout, with Iron Thorns ex, or with Miraidon ex itself.

KEY CARDS

• Luxray ex TWM 68

• Miraidon ex SVI 81

• Iron Hands ex PAR 70

• Electric Generator

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Heavy Baton to more easily preserve Energy attached to Iron Hands ex when it is Knocked Out.

• Rescue Board as a pivot option.

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Going second, power up your Pokémon with Miraidon’s Peak Acceleration attack, which does 40 damage and lets you search your deck for 2 Basic Energy cards and attach them to your Future Pokémon in any way you like. Attack with Miraidon’s Sparking Strike, which does 160 damage, or with Miraidon ex’s Repulsion Bolt or Cyber Drive attacks. Boost the attacks of your Future Pokémon with Iron Crown ex’s Cobalt Command Ability, which reads, “Attacks used by your Future Pokémon, except any Iron Crown ex, do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).” To assist in swinging the Prize trade, attack with Iron Hands ex and its Amp You Very Much attack, which does 120 damage and lets you take an additional Prize card when you take a knockout with that attack.

KEY CARDS

• Iron Crown ex TEF 81

• Iron Thorns ex TWM 77

• Iron Hands ex PAR 70

• Miraidon TEF 121

• Future Booster Energy Capsule

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Town Store as an out to Future Booster Energy Capsule.

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Slam down Iron Thorns ex and use its Initialization Ability to cripple your opponent’s setup. Use the decks other disruption options, including Crushing Hammer, Eri, and Technical Machine: Devolution to destroy your opponent’s setup as you slowly whittle away at their Pokémon with Iron Thorns ex’s Volt Cyclone attack, which does 140 damage and makes you move an Energy from Iron Thorns ex to one of your Benched Pokémon.

KEY CARDS

• Iron Thorns ex TWM 77

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Building this deck as the Future Box version instead.

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Evolve Timburr into Conkeldurr with Rare Candy. Use Brute Bonnet’s Toxic Powder Ability, which leaves both Active Pokémon Poisoned if there is an Ancient Booster Energy Capsule attached to Brute Bonnet. Attack with Conkeldurr’s Gutsy Swing attack which does 250 damage and can be used for free when Conkeldurr is affected by a Special Condition, liked Poisoned.

KEY CARDS

• Conkeldurr TWM 105

• Brute Bonnet PAR 123

• Radiant Hisuian Sneasler LOR 123

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Building literally other deck on this list or on the Standard format meta page.

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Evolve Pidgey into Pidgeotto and Froakie into Greninja ex with Rare Candy. Attack with Greninja ex’s Shinobi Blade attack, which does 170 damage and lets you search your deck for any 1 card you like. Alternatively, attack with Greninja ex’s Mirage Barrage, which does 120 damage to 2 of your opponent’s Pokémon.

KEY CARDS

• Greninja ex TWM 106

• Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR 40

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• [Pidgeot ex Version] Earthen Vessel to help find Basic Energy, as needed.

• [Pidgeot ex Version] Unfair Stamp to cripple your opponent and boost your own setup after your opponent takes a knockout.

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BASIC STRATEGY

Evolve Dreepy up into Drakloak to take advantage of its Recon Directive Ability which lets you look at the top two cards of your deck, put one of those cards into your hand, and put the other on the bottom of your deck—or, use Rare Candy to evolve a Dreepy into a Dragapult ex and use its Phantom Dive attack, which does 200 damage and lets you put six damage counters on your opponent’s Benched Pokémon in any way you like. Take turns via spreading the damage counters around or by spreading the right number of damage counters in the right places, and then using Technical Machine: Devolution to rapidly devolve and, by extension, knockout, a number of your opponent’s Evolved Pokémon.

KEY CARDS

• Drakloak TWM 129

• Dragapult ex TWM 130

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Dragapult SIT 89 as a potential single Prize option.

• Dreepy SIT 87 to get a bit of damage in when needed via its lost Energy cost Reckless Charge attack.

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Evolve Pineco up into Forretress ex to use its Exploding Energy Ability which, in exchange for Knocking Out Forretress ex, lets you search your deck for up to 5 Basic Grass Energy and attach them to your Pokémon in any way you like. Attack with Bloodmoon Ursaluna’s Blood Moon attack, which does 240 damage, but the attacking Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex can’t use its Blood Moon attack on your next turn.

KEY CARDS

• Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex TWM 141

• Forretress ex PAF 2

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Running Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex in another deck as the deck tech it was meant to be, giving up the idea that it can reasonably be its own deck and the idea that Forretress ex will ever see any reasonable degree of competitive play.

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