Galvantula ex (PTCGL Expanded)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Expanded 932 views May 01, 2025 Updated Oct 06, 2025
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Basically item-lock your Opponent almost every single turn. (Note that this build is much better on PTCGL than in real life play).

Strategy: Get your board set up with Joltik's, Torchic's and getting your Support Pokémon when needed. Galvantula can also swing for 220 against Pokémon ex and V. Or you can use the attack Fulgarite which you can get the Energy back pretty quickly with the following cards: Powerglass and Blaziken ex. Powerglass can recover one after you use

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Basically item-lock your Opponent almost every single turn. (Note that this build is much better on PTCGL than in real life play).

Strategy: Get your board set up with Joltik's, Torchic's and getting your Support Pokémon when needed. Galvantula can also swing for 220 against Pokémon ex and V. Or you can use the attack Fulgarite which you can get the Energy back pretty quickly with the following cards: Powerglass and Blaziken ex. Powerglass can recover one after you use Fulgarite's Attack, and when it becomes your turn again if you have both Blaziken's on the field you can get the remaining 2 Energies back onto Galvantula. Though, you could also use Thunder Moutain to make the attack for Galvantula much cheaper by one Lightning Energy. You could potentially combine Sparkling Crystal and Thunder Mountain to item-lock them for a single Energy. Also, Raikou acts as an attacker earlier on and can take advantage of Area Zero Underdepths to do even more damage. You could run Lumineon V instead of Tapu Lele GX as their abilities do quite literally have the same effect but Tapu Lele's no resistance is too great to pass up on. The 3 copies of Crispin help get your Energies into play much easier and Hisuian Heavy Ball can help search out your prizes and let you take one Basic Pokémon and that prize card gets replaced with HHB. Guzma has the same effect as Prime Catcher which is too great to not use in Expanded. Air Balloon helps out quite a bit since it can give any of your Pokémon Free Retreat which is really nice to have in this deck. The other support Pokémon such as Crobat and Dedenne GX should be self-explanatory on why they're in this list. I'm not that great at Expanded yet, so any feedback or suggestions would be helpful!

Extras:

Link to a decently strong Regidrago VSTAR deck for IRL play: https://pokemoncard.io/deck/regidrago-vstar-124397

 

Card Types

Trainer 32
Pokémon 18
Energy 10

Energy Types

Lightning 14
Fire 5
Fighting 3
Grass 3
Darkness 2
Psychic 1

Energy Curve

Distribution of attack energy costs in your deck

1 Energy 10 attacks
10
38.5% of attacks
2 Energy 11 attacks
11
42.3% of attacks
3 Energy 5 attacks
5
19.2% of attacks

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LimeLemon avatar

I'm probably going to make a version for this list that works in the real Expanded format instead of PTCGL. Also, if anyone somehow finds this list good job!

LimeLemon avatar

Seems I forgot to add in Pikachu will go fix that now.

LimeLemon avatar

This deck is quite outdated for the PTCGL Expanded format, but it's still a decent build, somehow forgot to make this public when I first made it, that has been fixed.

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