Chien-Pao ex (Destined Rivals)

Waffle Enthusiast Waffle Enthusiast Standard 1,964 views Jun 14, 2025 Updated Jun 22, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Arctibax (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Baxcalibur (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Chien-Pao ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Frigibax (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Frigibax (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Iron Bundle (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.
  • Revavroom (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.
  • Earthen Vessel (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 has no regulation mark and is not legal in Standard format.
  • Superior Energy Retrieval (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Technical Machine: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Overall a fun deck to use, also this list helped me get 4th Place at my local card shop.

Explanation: Try and go second with this deck for many purposes. Anyways, the main focus on going second is to get out your Pokémon you need and to slowly set up via TM: Evolution to get out your Arctibaxes and Revavroom's. Now the Pokémon you get are really important as flooding your bench is way too risky as it can ruin the game for you, so with that being said, get out 1-2 Chien-Pao ex's, 2 Frigibax,

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Overall a fun deck to use, also this list helped me get 4th Place at my local card shop.

Explanation: Try and go second with this deck for many purposes. Anyways, the main focus on going second is to get out your Pokémon you need and to slowly set up via TM: Evolution to get out your Arctibaxes and Revavroom's. Now the Pokémon you get are really important as flooding your bench is way too risky as it can ruin the game for you, so with that being said, get out 1-2 Chien-Pao ex's, 2 Frigibax, and Latias ex. You should keep Iron Hands hidden but you can also get out Wellspring out to Sob Lock your Opponent. I'd personally recommend going for TM: Evolution. Also, you can use Iron Bundle as an Early Game Gusting option as it can cause a decent KO for you or can be helpful in the Lategame. Anyways, your strategy on getting Knock Out's is by using Superior Energy Retrieval to recover your Energies to then use Baxcalibur's Ability to get your Energy onto Chien-Pao ex and other Pokémon to deal massive damage. Furthermore, Revavroom is your Main Draw Engine since it can draw 6 cards but you discard an Energy from your hand. That is all for this portion of the description. Hope this can help.

Cards to Consider Adding: I'll give a list of cards your could add in.

1. 1 Area Zero Underdepths to have a bigger bench.

2. 2 Pokégear since they can find your supporters.

3. Shaymin to protect your non rule box Pokémon.

4. Secret Box quite better in some matchups but I personally prefer Prime Catcher for the Ace Spec.

That's all I have to say so go ahead and make any other changes you desire and this list has a few elements inspired from @LimeLemon's Destined Rivals variant.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (20)
1 Iron Hands ex sv8pt5-154
$29.49 Lightning 230
3 Chien-Pao ex sv2-261
$29.99 Water 220
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-92
$39.02 Darkness 210
1 Latias ex sv8-239
$187.21 Psychic 210
1 Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex sv6-213
$13.57 Water 210
2 Baxcalibur sv2-210
$34.88 Water 160
1 Regigigas sv8pt5-86
$0.13 Colorless 160
2 Revavroom sv4pt5-193
$1.98 Metal 140
1 Iron Bundle svp-66
$2.58 Water 100
2 Arctibax sv2-209
$16.97 Water 90
2 Frigibax sv4pt5-128
$3.75 Water 70
2 Varoom sv6pt5-43
$0.04 Metal 70
1 Frigibax sv2-208
$25.03 Water 60
Trainer (31)
2 Artazon sv3-229
$1.27
4 Arven sv4pt5-235
$9.76
2 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-265
$16.59
2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv6-223
$11.89
1 Counter Catcher sv4-264
$2.23
2 Earthen Vessel sv6pt5-96
$16.57
2 Iono sv4pt5-237
$25.46
3 Nest Ball sm1-158
$9.20
1 Night Stretcher sv8-251
$8.99
1 Prime Catcher sv5-157
$1.20
Trainer (31)
2 Rare Candy bw10-105
$183.76
4 Superior Energy Retrieval sv2-277
$2.48
2 Technical Machine: Evolution sv4-178
$0.23
3 Ultra Ball bw9-122
$1,199.51
Energy (9)
8 Basic Water Energy sv2-279
$10.34 Water
1 Lightning Energy swsh7-235
$8.47 Lightning

Card Types

Trainer 31
Pokémon 20
Energy 9

Energy Types

Water 12
Metal 4
Colorless 1
Darkness 1
Lightning 1
Psychic 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 5 attacks
5
17.9% of attacks
2 Energy 10 attacks
10
35.7% of attacks
3 Energy 9 attacks
9
32.1% of attacks
4 Energy 4 attacks
4
14.3% of attacks

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Comments

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LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast Interesting list, I'm gonna go test out this build of yours and take some inspiration from it when building the Chien-Pao ex deck I have planned. I also like how your descriptions have improved a lot more, good work!

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LimeLemon Thank you, I've been offline a lot more in order to get better at explaining the decks I make even though I post them randomly. Anyways, good job becoming a Feature Builder and one of the most followed people on the website.

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LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast You're welcome, and that makes sense. Also, thank you as well!

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