Gholdengo ex & Dragapult ex (Journey Together)

LimeLemon LimeLemon Standard 10,852 views Mar 25, 2025 Updated May 14, 2025
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Standard Format: Illegal

This deck is not legal in Standard format:

  • Gholdengo 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.
  • 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 (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
  • Pal Pad (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.
  • 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.
  • Vengeful Punch (Regulation Mark: G) is not legal in Standard format. Legal marks: H, I, J.
Deck Primer

This is by far the best way to play Gholdengo ex but I personally prefer the Dudunsparce Build.

Strategy: Going with either first or second works for this deck but I personally prefer going second due to being able to use TM: Evolution on your first turn. Anyways, for your first turn/Early Game, try and get up at least 2-3 Gimmighoul's and 1-2 Dreepy's. You could also get Genesect or Munkidori out if you want. Anyways, if you're going second, I'd recommend to try and use TM: Evolution to

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This is by far the best way to play Gholdengo ex but I personally prefer the Dudunsparce Build.

Strategy: Going with either first or second works for this deck but I personally prefer going second due to being able to use TM: Evolution on your first turn. Anyways, for your first turn/Early Game, try and get up at least 2-3 Gimmighoul's and 1-2 Dreepy's. You could also get Genesect or Munkidori out if you want. Anyways, if you're going second, I'd recommend to try and use TM: Evolution to get a Gholdengo ex and Drakloak. Now moving onwards, you should be able to draw a couple of cards so getting what cards you need shouldn't be that difficult. Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking can quite literally help you win the game since you can just use that card to then draw the cards you need like Energy Search Pro and Counter Catcher or whatever you need like Poffin or an Ultra Ball, you get the point. Turo's Scenario helps you reset a Gholdengo or Pult to remove all of the damage off of them. I'd recommend to put Vengeful Punch onto Genesect in order to use its Ability to shut off their ACE SPEC's and is actually good in some other decks. Now for the ACE SPEC of choice, Energy Search Pro, this doesn't need to be explained but you can quite literally get all of your Energy out in order to do insane damage! Furthermore, if you do want other options, you could use Max Rod or something else like Unfair Stamp but Energy Search Pro is too good to pass up on. Artazon is kind of hard to get out but you don't really need it much hence why it's 1 copy it is nice to have a stadium bump though you could also add in a Jamming Tower if you'd like. Pult opts in as a backup attacker if you cannot use Make it Rain and can help take a few KO's which is quite helpful. As usual, Munkidori, helps move your Damage off of your Pokémon to move it onto to your Opponent's hence why there are 2 copies of Darkness Energy. I don't have much more to say so feel free to make any changes or to leave any suggestions!

Edits:

Edit #1: Removed Pokégears, Turo's Scenario, and Redcue Board. They have been replaced with a second Dragapult ex, 2nd TM: Evo, 2nd Iono, and a Pal Pad.

Edit #2: Fixed the cards to be able to be copied and exported into PTCGL such as making Buddy-Buddy Poffin to Temporal Forces since it's the Free Version. Anyways, for the changes, 1 Iono, 1 Boss's Orders, 1 Psychic Energy, 1 Fire Energy, 2 Crispin, and 1 Dragapult ex have been cut, the purpose of this was this build was kind of lacking in cards so I decided to remove them for much better cards. Now onto the replacements, 1 Turo's Scenario, a 2nd Night Stretcher, 1 Vengeful Punch, 1 Genesect, 2 more Arven making the total 4, 2 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking, and a 2nd Darkness Energy.

Main Deck (60 cards)

Card Types

Trainer 32
Pokémon 17
Energy 11

Energy Types

Metal 9
Psychic 6
Dragon 5
Darkness 3
Fighting 1
Fire 1
Grass 1
Lightning 1
Water 1

Energy Curve

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1 Energy 12 attacks
12
48.0% of attacks
2 Energy 6 attacks
6
24.0% of attacks
3 Energy 7 attacks
7
28.0% of attacks

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Comments

Waffle Enthusiast avatar

Interesting list, I like how it uses Drakloak as a draw engine as well.

LimeLemon avatar

Update: Changes have been made to this deck to make it much more effective.

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