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Pokémon Trading Card Game: Deck Guides

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

7 articles

November 2026

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Mega Excadrill ex 065/084 from Pitch Black, a 340 HP Stage 1 Metal Pokémon ex that evolves from Drilbur, shown with spinning drills for arms. Its Undermine attack does 90 and discards the top 2 cards of the opponent's deck, and Maximum Drilling does 200 plus 130 more with at least 2 extra Energy attached. It has a Fire Weakness.
🃏Deck GuidesNov 1, 2026·12 min read

Pokémon TCG Mega Excadrill Deck Guide: Lists and Matchups

Mega Excadrill ex has been in 713 Regional decklists since Pitch Black, and it has made Day 2 at 11.8% against a field rate of 18.0%. We pulled every one of those lists and every match they played to show what the deck is, which counts moved results, and why it beats Crustle three times in four while losing to the Alakazam decks.

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October 2026

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Slowking 058/142 from Stellar Crown, a 120 HP Stage 1 Psychic Pokémon drawn in a stippled style, wearing its spiked Shellder crown and a red-and-white collar and reaching toward a floating stone and twig. Its Seek Inspiration attack discards the top card of your deck and uses an attack of that Pokémon if it has no Rule Box, and its Super Psy Bolt attack does 120.
🃏Deck GuidesOct 25, 2026·14 min read

Pokémon TCG Slowking Deck Guide: Builds and Matchups

Slowking was the second-most-registered deck at the Nice Regional and the fourth-most across the 2027 season's first six, and it has not won any of them. We pulled all 815 Slowking decklists and every match they played to show how Seek Inspiration turns Kyurem and Metagross into attacks, which card counts came with better results, and which decks it loses to.

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Lillie's Clefairy ex 076/217 from Ascended Heroes, a 190 HP Basic Psychic Pokémon ex drawn as a pink Clefairy leaping past a palm tree with Lillie's portrait in the corner. Its Fairy Zone Ability makes the opponent's Dragon Pokémon weak to Psychic, and its Full Moon Rondo attack does 20 plus 20 more for each Benched Pokémon on both sides.
🃏Deck GuidesOct 23, 2026·14 min read

Pokémon TCG Basic Box Deck Guide: Builds and Matchups

Luc Gantner won the Nice Regional on October 18 with Basic Box, the all-Basic Mega Kangaskhan deck that also won Baltimore. Two wins in six Regionals ties pure Dragapult ex for the most this season. We pulled all 830 Basic Box decklists and every match they played to find what the deck agrees on, what changed between Baltimore and Nice, and which opponents it still loses to.

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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, what the first Regionals of the season say about its matchups, and how Mew ex has actually shown up since 30th Celebration became legal.

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July 2026

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Boss's Orders, the Supporter card that reads "Switch in 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon to the Active Spot" — the gust effect that competes with draw for your one Supporter play each turn.
🃏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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