Mew EX/Shedninja

The basic idea behind the deck is to set up a Mew-EX in the Active Spot with a Shedinja on the Bench. You’ll then use Mew to copy Shedinja’s Hopeless Scream, hopefully lots of damage. Generally, the way to accomplish this is to attach a Rainbow Energy to Mew-EX while a Frozen City is in play, placing three or more damage counters onto the Mew, and then equip a Muscle Band to Hopeless Scream for 170 or more.

The most important thing

The basic idea behind the deck is to set up a Mew-EX in the Active Spot with a Shedinja on the Bench. You’ll then use Mew to copy Shedinja’s Hopeless Scream, hopefully lots of damage. Generally, the way to accomplish this is to attach a Rainbow Energy to Mew-EX while a Frozen City is in play, placing three or more damage counters onto the Mew, and then equip a Muscle Band to Hopeless Scream for 170 or more.

The most important thing to remember when playing this deck is that while the damage ceiling is nearly limitless, it comes at a very real cost. Mew-EX is a 120 HP Pokémon that grants your opponent 2 Prizes for KOing it. If our goal is to have at least three damage counters on the Mew, that’s going to drop our HP own to 90, which makes Mew an easy target for any deck that can deal damage at a reasonable pace.

Our answer for this issue comes in the form of cards like Crushing Hammer and Munna BCR. If we can consistently keep our opponent in an Energy drought, or put their Active to Sleep every turn, they won’t be able to do much of anything. This deck is interesting in that it is very aggressive, but cards like this allow it to play almost like a control deck (such as Exeggutor) because of how fragile our Pokémon are.

Traditionally, decks like this one (such as Night March) can win because they can expect to trade favorably with the opponent via attacking with a non-Pokémon-EX. Unfortunately, we don’t really have that option here. We’ll explore some of the ways to get around this in another section, but in most lists you can expect to never attack with a Shedinja. For this reason, the controlling cards we talked about earlier becoming even more important.