Chien-Pao ex & Baxcalibur (BB & WF)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 1,602 views Aug 25, 2025 Updated Aug 31, 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.
  • Dunsparce (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.
  • 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.
  • Earthen Vessel (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Great Ball (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.
  • Super Rod (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • 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

This deck has changed yet again for the current format. (In Destined Rivals, Chien-Pao ex ran TR's Petrel and TR's Factory along with TR's Transceiver but now it runs the Dudunsparce Engine with Enriching Energy and Hilda).

Strategy: I strongly suggest to go second with this deck. Anyways, during your First Turn, try and get out the following Pokémon:

- 1 Chien-Pao ex

- 2 Frigibax

- 2-3 Dunsparce

- Any other Pokémon of your choice.

Getting out the Basic Pokémon with

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This deck has changed yet again for the current format. (In Destined Rivals, Chien-Pao ex ran TR's Petrel and TR's Factory along with TR's Transceiver but now it runs the Dudunsparce Engine with Enriching Energy and Hilda).

Strategy: I strongly suggest to go second with this deck. Anyways, during your First Turn, try and get out the following Pokémon:

- 1 Chien-Pao ex

- 2 Frigibax

- 2-3 Dunsparce

- Any other Pokémon of your choice.

Getting out the Basic Pokémon with 70 HP or less are the easiest to get out due to Buddy-Buddy Poffin, though finding your Big Basic Pokémon can be found via Nest Ball, Ultra Ball, or Great Ball if you're lucky. Anyways, you should also try to attach TM: Evolution to the Pokémon in the Active Spot and attach an Energy to that Pokémon to evolve your Frigibax into an Arctibax and your Dunsparce into a Dudunsparce. Anyways, I will now be moving onto the Pokémon Explanations.

Pokémon Explanations:

Chien-Pao ex's Ability, Shivery Chill, allows you to find up to 2 Basic Water Energies when Chien-Pao ex is in the Active Spot which combines well with Baxcalibur's Ability, Super Cold, where you can attach as many Water Energies from your hand onto any of your Pokémon in any way you like. This also pairs well with Chien-Pao's Attack, Hail Blade, where it does more Damage for each Basic Water Energy you discard from any of your Pokémon.

Dudunsparce is this deck's main Draw Engine as you can draw 3 cards and then shuffle Dudunsparce back into your deck and this combines with the ACE SPEC of choice, Enriching Energy as when it's attached to 1 of your Pokémon, you may draw 4 cards, meaning you can draw 7 cards total when attaching it to Dudunsparce, and then you can shuffle both back into the deck, use Hilda, and repeat the process of drawing cards. This can also be a major weakness of this deck, as if you're not careful enough, you can deck out and lose the game, so be REALLY careful while doing this.

Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex is a backup Attacker and can stall with Sob or you can have a snipe Attacker with Torrential Pump.

Iron Hands ex is here to help against Single Prize Attackers due to its Attack, Amp You Very Much, this especially helps with your matchup against Gardevoir ex.

Iron Bundle provides gust when it is on the Bench.

This concludes the Pokémon Explanations section, so I will now be moving onto Trainer Card Explanations.

Trainer Card Explanations:

Arven helps find your Item and Tool Cards. Hilda finds your Evolution Pokémon and any Energy Card. Great Ball is ran since you'll draw a lot of cards with the upgraded Dudunsparce Engine so you'll easily be able to find your Pokémon with Great Ball due to how thin your deck can become. SER (Superior Energy Retrieval) recovers your Basic Water Energy after you do a massive Attack with Chien-Pao ex. Earthen Vessel provides another way to get out your Basic Energy Cards. Artazon helps find your Basic Non-Rulebox Pokémon. Rare Candy helps you evolve a Frigibax into a Baxcalibur, instantly.

The rest of the Trained Cards should be self-explanatory, so I will not move onto basic combos that you can perform.

Basic Combos:

1.) Chien-Pao ex's Shivery Chill, and Baxcalibur's Super Cold to move the Energy onto your Pokémon in any way you like.

2.) Baxcalibur's Super Cold Ability on any of your other backup Attackers such as Iron Hands ex or Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex.

3.) Superior Energy Retrieval to recovery your Energy and then use Super Cold to get those Energies attached to your Pokémon to deal another massive attack.

4.) Hilda, find Dudunsparce and Enriching Energy, evolve Dunsparce into Dudunsparce, attach Enriching Energy into Dudunsparce, draw 4 cards due to Enriching Energy, and use Runaway Draw.

There are more combos you can perform but you can probably figure that out on your own. Anyways, this concludes the Strategy category, so feel free to make any changes, ask almost any question, or to leave any suggestions!

CTC: The cards that I'd recommend to add into this deck as an alternative for you to try out or try to fit your preferences will be sorted into a list with a brief description for every card. If there any cards here or from your own thoughts/ideas that you'd wish to add into this deck, cut out any cards that you don't find too useful. With this being stated, here is the list:

Pokémon:

- 2-2 Revavroom Line - If you don't like the Dudunsparce Engine, you can use the Revavroom Engine instead.

- 3rd 70 HP Dunsparce - Alternative to the 60 HP Dunsparce.

- 3rd Chien-Pao ex - Provides more consistency.

- 1 Regigigas (PRE) - Helps against Tera Pokémon.

- 2-1-2 Pidgeot ex Line - Alternative to both Revavroom Engine and the Dudunsparce Engine.

Trainer Cards:

- 2 Boss's Orders - Provides gusting options.

- 1-2 Iono Provides disruption.

- 4 Petrels - To go back to the Team Rocket's Engine.

- 2-3 total Nest Balls - Makes finding your Big Basic Pokémon easier, should be used if you cut the Dudunsparce Engine out.

- 2-3 total Ultra Balls - Should be used if you don't use the Dudunsparce Engine.

- 1 Counter Catcher - Provides even more gust.

- 2 TR's Transceivers - For the Team Rocket's Engine.

- Prime Catcher - Provides a great gusting option, alternative ACE SPEC of choice.

- Secret Box - Alternative ACE SPEC of choice, best used for the Team Rocket's Engine.

- 1 Switch - Self-explanatory.

- 1 Air Balloon - Self-explanatory.

Energies:

- 1 Jet Energy - Whichever Pokémon you attached Jet Energy to brings that Pokémon into the Active Spot.

This concludes the CTC (Cards to Consider) category, I hope you found this description helpful! Anyways, feel free to do whatever you want with this deck and have a good day!

Edits:

Edit #0.5: No changes made to the deck, only fixed a slight error in the description.

Card Types

Trainer 31
Pokémon 19
Energy 10

Energy Types

Water 19
Colorless 6
Lightning 2
Darkness 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 6 attacks
6
21.4% of attacks
2 Energy 8 attacks
8
28.6% of attacks
3 Energy 13 attacks
13
46.4% of attacks
4 Energy 1 attack
3.6% of attacks

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Comments

LimeLemon avatar

I apologize for this but I will not be posting decks as much as I previously had, as I am starting to become busy with other things, though, I hope you all have a good day!

inkessant avatar

LimeLemon hey, no worries! irl stuff comes first; no matter how often you post we'll still be happy to see you :)

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inkessant Thank you for your support, I greatly appreciate it! I hope you have a good day!

Pe7son avatar

Is great ball good in this deck? (I want to know)

LimeLemon avatar

Pe7son Personally, I find Great Ball to be good in this deck, though you can always make changes to this deck to fit your own preferences.

fredgmc avatar

i have every one of these cards

old friend

Ronnietheracoon avatar

Congratulations. Just wanted to let you know that my feeling Hangry deck was picked for a deck of the day also.

SLiCK iLLWiLL avatar

Definitely the best current Chien-Pao deck I've seen, thanks for the great list

LimeLemon avatar

Ronnietheracoon Thank you for your support! Also, good job also getting deck of the day!

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SLiCK iLLWiLL Thank you for your feedback! I hope you have a good day!

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Just wait for kyogre from mega evolutions 😀

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