Ampharos ex (Post-Rotation)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 1,665 views Apr 14, 2025 Updated Apr 16, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Ampharos ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Flaaffy (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iron Hands ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Magnemite (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Mareep (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Miraidon ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Artazon (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Arven (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Counter Catcher (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Electric Generator (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Nest Ball (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Professor's Research (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Strategy: Basically start off the Early Game with Iron Hands ex and start using Amp You Very Much to nuke their Pokémon (Unless they have more than 120 HP). Miraidon's Tandem Unit helps search out your deck for your Lightning Pokémon such as Mareep. Magneton helps recover your Energy and put them back onto Ampharos ex which allows you to do another Thunderstrike Tail. Ampharos can swing up to 280 by discarding 2 Lightning Energy from it, however it falls off short on

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Strategy: Basically start off the Early Game with Iron Hands ex and start using Amp You Very Much to nuke their Pokémon (Unless they have more than 120 HP). Miraidon's Tandem Unit helps search out your deck for your Lightning Pokémon such as Mareep. Magneton helps recover your Energy and put them back onto Ampharos ex which allows you to do another Thunderstrike Tail. Ampharos can swing up to 280 by discarding 2 Lightning Energy from it, however it falls off short on one shotting Pokémon like Zard, Pult, and Gardy. (Basically Pokémon with 290+ HP) Though with the ACE SPEC of choice, Maximum Belt allows Thunderstrike Tail to do 330 Damage Total which one shots basically everything besides Pokémon with 340 HP (excluding Palafin ex due to Weakness). Since you start the Early Game off with Hands, you might as well use Heavy Baton on it to attach all the Energy onto an Ampharos (if it's set at that stage yet) to be able to attack with it. Additionally, Levincia helps recover your Lightning Energy as well, only downside is it goes into your hand and not into Ampharos. Additonally, Joltik helps accelerate energy onto Hands allowing you to Amp You Very Much next turn. Anyways, feel free to make any changes or leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Cut Artazon down to 1 copy and added in Levincia as suggested by @Waffle Enthusiast.

Edit #2: Added 2 Joltik's, and 2 Grass Energies but removed 1 Switch, 1 Iono, and 2 Lightning Energy.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (17)
3 Ampharos ex svp-16
$4.45 Lightning 330
2 Iron Hands ex sv4-70
$0.89 Lightning 230
1 Miraidon ex sv1-81
$0.67 Lightning 220
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.37 Darkness 210
2 Magneton sv8-59
$0.13 Lightning 100
1 Flaaffy sv1-67
$0.17 Lightning 90
2 Magnemite sv3pt5-81
$0.19 Lightning 60
3 Mareep sv1-66
$0.16 Lightning 60
2 Joltik sv7-50
$0.28 Lightning 30
Trainer (31)
1 Artazon sv2-171
$0.27
Trainer (31)
4 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.39
2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
1 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
4 Electric Generator sv1-170
$0.15
1 Heavy Baton sv5-151
$0.20
2 Iono sv2-185
$0.25
1 Levincia sv9-150
$0.15
1 Maximum Belt sv5-154
$0.87
2 Nest Ball sv4pt5-84
$0.31
Trainer (31)
1 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.30
2 Professor's Research sv4pt5-87
$0.19
3 Rare Candy sv4pt5-89
$0.24
1 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
4 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
Energy (12)
2 Basic Grass Energy sve-9
$0.13 Grass
10 Basic Lightning Energy sve-12
$0.07 Lightning

Card Types

Trainer 31
Pokémon 17
Energy 12

Energy Types

Lightning 26
Grass 2
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 11 attacks
11
39.3% of attacks
2 Energy 4 attacks
4
14.3% of attacks
3 Energy 11 attacks
11
39.3% of attacks
4 Energy 2 attacks
2
7.1% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar
Waffle Enthusiast

Interesting list, though wouldn't Levincia be a good stadium as well and you do a 1-1 stadium line of Artazon and Levincia?

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you for your feedback! Levincia does sound like a pretty good stadium for this deck, so I'll add it later today.

XxBlazefire avatar
XxBlazefire

I like it ! Maybe add in joltik and swap some lightning energy for grass so you can set up quicker

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

XxBlazefire Thank you for your feedback! Also, Joltik does seem to be pretty good in this deck so I will add those changes in a bit and sorry for the late response.

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