Festival Lead (Journey Together)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 12,438 views Mar 25, 2025 Updated Apr 27, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • 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.
  • Professor's Research (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.
  • Vitality Band (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

Probably the best single prize deck in the current format.

Strategy: Start off the Early Game by setting up your Board such as getting up Applin's, Goldeen, Grookey's, Petilil's and so on. After that try to use TM: Evo to get either a Dipplin, Thwackey, Lilligant, Rabsca, or Seaking up. Also, try to get Festival Grounds into play ASAP to be able to take advantage of the Festival Lead Ability. Thwackey is basically the Pidgeot ex in this build as it lets you search out a card from your deck if

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Probably the best single prize deck in the current format.

Strategy: Start off the Early Game by setting up your Board such as getting up Applin's, Goldeen, Grookey's, Petilil's and so on. After that try to use TM: Evo to get either a Dipplin, Thwackey, Lilligant, Rabsca, or Seaking up. Also, try to get Festival Grounds into play ASAP to be able to take advantage of the Festival Lead Ability. Thwackey is basically the Pidgeot ex in this build as it lets you search out a card from your deck if the Festival Lead Ability is on your Pokémon in the Active Spot. Seaking acts as an early game attacker as you can do 60 Damage and Draw 2 Cards and if Festival Grounds is in play you can do 120 total and Draw 4 Cards Total. Dipplin will need to get setup and try to get a Lilligant up and would be better with both up as it stacks. You can do 200 total if Dipplin attacks twice and do 220-240 total depending if Lilligant is in play. Ig can do 270-290 total with the ACE SPEC of choice, Maximum Belt which does 50 more damage to ex Pokémon. Due to the loss of Roseanne's Backup you can use Colress's Tenacity to get Festival Grounds into play along with an Energy. Additionally, Kieran can allow Dipplin to OHKO Pult with all the modifiers to do 320 and can also be used as a Switch Card as there are instances where Lilligant is trapped in the Active hence the purpose of 2 switches. Thank you to @Kard Knight for suggesting this deck! Anyways, feel free to make any changes or leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Removed Redeemable Ticket, Defiance Band, 1 Boss's Order, 2 Black Belt's Training, 2 Grass Energy, and some other cards that I don't remember. They were replaced with 2 Switches, 1 Kieran, 2 Arven, 1 Vitality Band, Colress's Tenacity, another Petilil and Lilligant, a 2nd Counter Catcher, a 2nd Night Stretcher, and maybe some other changes.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Pokémon (22)
2 Lilligant sv9-7
$0.17 Grass 110
1 Seaking sv8pt5-21
$0.17 Water 110
3 Thwackey sv6-15
$0.96 Grass 100
4 Dipplin sv6-18
$0.14 Grass 80
3 Grookey sv6-14
$0.19 Grass 70
1 Rabsca sv5-24
$0.15 Grass 70
1 Goldeen sv6-44
$0.13 Water 50
2 Petilil sv9-6
$0.04 Grass 50
1 Rellor sv5-23
$0.14 Grass 50
2 Applin sv6-126
$0.16 Dragon 40
2 Applin sv7-12
$0.27 Grass 40
Trainer (33)
2 Arven sv1-166
$0.31
1 Boss’s Orders (Ghetsis) sv2-172
$0.39
4 Bug Catching Set sv6-143
$0.21
1 Colress's Tenacity sv6pt5-57
$0.30
2 Counter Catcher sv4-160
$0.26
4 Festival Grounds sv6-149
$0.12
3 Iono sv2-185
$0.25
1 Kieran sv6-154
$0.18
1 Lana's Aid sv6-155
$0.28
1 Maximum Belt sv5-154
$0.87
Trainer (33)
2 Night Stretcher sv6pt5-61
$0.30
4 Professor's Research sv9-155
$0.20
2 Switch sv1-194
$0.17
1 Technical Machine: Evolution sv4-178
$0.23
3 Ultra Ball sv1-196
$0.19
1 Vitality Band sv1-197
$0.14
Energy (5)
5 Basic Grass Energy sve-9
$0.13 Grass

Card Types

Trainer 33
Pokémon 22
Energy 5

Energy Types

Grass 23
Dragon 2
Water 2

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 14 attacks
14
51.9% of attacks
2 Energy 11 attacks
11
40.7% of attacks
3 Energy 2 attacks
7.4% of attacks

Opening Hand Probability Calculator

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar
Waffle Enthusiast

Interesting deck list, Dragapult ex still nukes this deck but it seems fun to play with.

LimeLemon avatar
LimeLemon

Waffle Enthusiast Thank you for the feedback! Also, yeah it's not the best deck but it can certainly catch some people off guard.

EntomoloMoth avatar
EntomoloMoth

I realised I have a lot of these cards so I will be trying this!

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Lugiawings

EntomoloMoth I have all the cards but the dipplin lol

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LimeLemon

Realized I forgot to add in Redeemable Ticket and the modifications I had made (redeemable ticket doesn't matter in that one though). So I will make the changes now.

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