Dragapult ex & Charizard ex (Post-Rotation)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 6,601 views Apr 11, 2025 Updated Apr 17, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Charizard ex (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Charmander (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Charmeleon (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.
  • Iono (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Jacq (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 Turo's Scenario (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.
  • Technical Machine: Evolution (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Strategy: Basically a much more aggressive variant of ZardPult instead of a more slower approach like previous builds people have made. Try to aim for a Phantom Dive early on in a match which potentially be searched by through certain cards in your hand like Tera Orb, Ultra Ball, Rare Candy, Arven, or Jacq. Charizard ex works as a pretty good Mid to Late game attacker. The Dusknoir Line helps snipe your Opponent's Pokémon and gives up a Prize Card in the Process which helps you get closer

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Strategy: Basically a much more aggressive variant of ZardPult instead of a more slower approach like previous builds people have made. Try to aim for a Phantom Dive early on in a match which potentially be searched by through certain cards in your hand like Tera Orb, Ultra Ball, Rare Candy, Arven, or Jacq. Charizard ex works as a pretty good Mid to Late game attacker. The Dusknoir Line helps snipe your Opponent's Pokémon and gives up a Prize Card in the Process which helps you get closer to pulling off Briar. Additionally, you can end a game with Briar if your opponent has exactly 2 Prizes which you can just do a KO with Zard or Pult which can get you 2-3 Prizes winning you a game. The ACE SPEC of choice is Unfair Stamp to help Disrupt your Opponent. Crispin does help get the Energy needed onto Pult. Anyways, feel free to make any changes or leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Removed the Pidgeot Line and a Nest Ball for a 2-1-1 Dusknoir Line. This change was suggested by @AngelSk9k

Edit #2: Removed 1 Fire Energy, 1 Boss's Orders, Cleffa, Sparkling Crystal, and 1 Buddy-Buddy Poffin. I replaced them with 1 Psychic Energy, 1 Counter Catcher (to go to 2), 1 Crispin, Unfair Stamp, and 1 Budew.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (19)
2 Charizard ex sv4pt5-54
$5.43 Darkness 330
2 Dragapult ex sv6-130
$1.86 Dragon 320
1 Fezandipiti ex sv6pt5-38
$3.37 Darkness 210
1 Dusknoir sv8pt5-37
$0.26 Psychic 160
1 Charmeleon sv4pt5-8
$0.17 Fire 90
3 Drakloak sv6-129
$0.29 Dragon 90
1 Dusclops sv8pt5-36
$0.18 Psychic 90
2 Charmander sv3pt5-4
$0.24 Fire 70
3 Dreepy sv6-128
$0.25 Dragon 70
2 Duskull sv8pt5-35
$0.19 Psychic 60
1 Budew sv8pt5-4
$0.18 Grass 30
Trainer (34)
2 Artazon sv2-171
$0.27
4 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.39
1 Briar sv7-132
$0.18
3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin sv5-144
$0.28
2 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
1 Crispin sv7-133
$0.24
3 Iono sv2-185
$0.25
1 Jacq sv1-175
$0.21
1 Nest Ball sv1-181
$0.22
1 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.30
Trainer (34)
1 Professor Turo's Scenario sv4-171
$0.23
4 Rare Candy sv4pt5-89
$0.24
1 Rescue Board sv5-159
$0.24
1 Super Rod sv2-188
$0.30
1 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
1 Technical Machine: Evolution sv4-178
$0.23
1 Tera Orb sv8-189
$0.18
3 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
1 Unfair Stamp sv6-165
$15.24
Energy (7)
4 Basic Fire Energy sve-10
$0.09 Fire
3 Basic Psychic Energy sve-13
$0.14 Psychic

Card Types

Trainer 34
Pokémon 19
Energy 7

Energy Types

Dragon 8
Fire 7
Psychic 7
Darkness 3
Grass 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 10 attacks
10
35.7% of attacks
2 Energy 16 attacks
16
57.1% of attacks
3 Energy 2 attacks
7.1% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar
Waffle Enthusiast

Interesting list, also couldn't the Dudunsparce Line work for this deck as well?

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you for your feedback! Also, yes the Dudunsparce along with many other cards too like Crispin.

Azeroth7 avatar
Azeroth7

Great list! Wouldn't subbing a Drakloak for a Budew work? Just for controlling purposes.

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Azeroth7 Thank you for your feedback! Also, to answer your question, yes you could subbing a Budew in place for a Drakloak could work, however, it does come to a cost of a bit of Draw Support. If you want a Budew in the deck you could sub it in the place of something else like Cleffa as having two Baby Pokémon is kind of odd due to the both of them giving up a prize after you use them.

CALCIUM avatar
CALCIUM

I am getting deck of the day reshiram + charizard (post-rotation)

CALCIUM avatar
CALCIUM

Thanks . 300 views in under a day

AngelSk9k avatar
AngelSk9k

Wanna try this but how are you supposed to deal with wall decks like Milotic? Is the plan to just kill it before it walls you? Wouldn't something like 2 munkidori or a Dusclops line fit in better than the pidgeot line? You already have draw power with drakloak so idk.

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

AngelSk9k Thank you for your feedback! I do see what you mean by your concern. Although, even if the Dusknoir Line were to be in this deck, Wall Decks would still probably counter it. The Dusknoir Line can probably replace the Pidgeot Line. I will start testing this deck again since o have finished testing my other decks that I updated earlier today.

Azeroth7 avatar
Azeroth7

I have been playing this deck since you released it and I've found that, in my opinion, it's weakness is the energy draw. I've been thinking of adding 2 vessels instead of Briar and Professor Turo's Scenario. Just wanted your opinion on that.

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Azeroth7 Thank you for your feedback, also yeah you probably should remove Turo's Scenario and Briar for 2 Vessels which could solve the issue.

Emboar500 avatar
Emboar500

Great list but i think budew works well with pult.

Also Sparkling Crystal could be Unfair Stamp

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Emboar500 I apologize yet again for the late response, though Budew is probably better than Cleffa so I'll go fix that.

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Emboar500 No problem! (Sorry for the late responses)

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