Pokémon Trading Card Game: Deck Guides

Commander deck techs, Standard / Modern / Pioneer / Pauper builds, sideboards, mana bases.

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October 2026

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N's Zoroark ex 137/217 from Ascended Heroes, a 280 HP Stage 1 Darkness Pokémon ex with N's portrait in the corner. Its Trade Ability discards a card to draw 2, and its Night Joker attack, for two Darkness Energy, uses an attack of one of your Benched N's Pokémon. Limitless Labs shows this printing in all 564 N's Zoroark decklists from the first four Regionals of the 2027 season.

🃏Deck GuidesOct 11, 2026·14 min read

Pokémon TCG N's Zoroark ex Deck Guide: Builds and Matchups

N's Zoroark has been the second-most-registered deck at three of the 2027 season's first four Regionals, and it reaches Day 2 more often than the field. Then it stalls: 2 of 42 top-cut seats. We pulled all 564 lists and every match those players finished to find which build works, which cards came with worse results, and where the losses come from.

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Unfair Stamp 165/167 from Twilight Masquerade, a magenta-framed ACE SPEC Item card with ACE SPEC banners down both sides and a red and a green stamp in its artwork, whose text makes both players shuffle their hands into their decks, then gives its player 5 cards and the opponent 2, usable only after one of its player's Pokémon was Knocked Out the turn before.

🃏Deck GuidesOct 2, 2026·14 min read

Pokémon TCG ACE SPEC Cards: All 29 Legal, Ranked by Play

You get one ACE SPEC per deck, and Standard currently offers 29 of them. We pulled all 6,728 Masters decklists from the first three Regionals of the 2027 season to see which one players actually spend that slot on, archetype by archetype, and which ACE SPECs nobody registered at all.

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September 2026

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Dragapult ex from Twilight Masquerade, a Tera Pokémon ex immune to attack damage while Benched, whose Phantom Dive attack puts 200 damage on the Active and spreads 6 damage counters across the opponent Bench — the card at the center of the deck that won the 2026 Pokémon TCG World Championship.

🃏Deck GuidesSep 21, 2026·12 min read

Pokémon TCG Dragapult ex Deck Guide: The Worlds-Winning 60

Dragapult ex is Standard's most-played deck by a clear margin, and it has been since Andrew Hedrick took it to the 2026 World Championship. Here is the exact 60 cards that won Worlds, the three variants the format has split into since, which decks actually beat it, and what happens to the matchup when Mew ex goes legal on September 30.

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July 2026

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Professor's Research, the Supporter card that reads "Discard your hand and draw 7 cards" — the archetypal draw engine card in a Pokémon TCG deck.

🃏Deck GuidesJul 28, 2026·11 min read

Pokémon TCG Deck Building Basics: Ratios, Consistency, and the Draw Engine

Sixty cards, four copies max, one Supporter per turn. Here is the structure that stops a Pokemon TCG deck from bricking: the real card-type ratios, how thick the draw engine has to be, how to build an evolution line that arrives on time, and the prize math behind your attackers.

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