Teal Mask Ogerpon ex

Raging Bolt ex [Temporal Forces] first started off as a hyped up partner for Sandy Shocks ex [Paradox Rift], but quickly retreated into the shadows due to limited success. Towards the tail end of the Temporal Forces metagame, a few diehard players started seeing success with various Raging Bolt ex variants, and that seemed to be the start of what was to come next!

With any new set release, players often hype some cards up, like Dragapult ex [Twilight Masquerade], and miss some obvious playables

Raging Bolt ex [Temporal Forces] first started off as a hyped up partner for Sandy Shocks ex [Paradox Rift], but quickly retreated into the shadows due to limited success. Towards the tail end of the Temporal Forces metagame, a few diehard players started seeing success with various Raging Bolt ex variants, and that seemed to be the start of what was to come next!

With any new set release, players often hype some cards up, like Dragapult ex [Twilight Masquerade], and miss some obvious playables from time to time, such as Teal Mask Ogrepon ex [Twilight Masquerade]. Thanks to some early Pokémon TCG Live results from online tournaments, Raging Bolt ex / Teal Mask Ogrepon ex was born, and quickly rose to great success!

The strategy of most aggressive decks is to attack quickly, and this deck follows that idea strongly! You’ll need to acquire Grass Energy in your hand to accelerate to Teal Mask Ogrepon ex, and you can easily grab those Energy with Earthen Vessel [Paradox Rift]. Those Energy allow you to hit for massive numbers with Raging Bolt ex’s Bellowing Thunder, which can allow you to OHKO anything! To power up Raging Bolt ex, you’ll need to use Professor Sada’s Vitality, and that means you’ll need to get Lightning Energy and / or Fighting Energy in your discard pile. Between Ultra Ball [Scarlet and Violet], Earthen Vessel, Squawkabilly ex [Paldea Evolved], and Radiant Greninja [Astral Radiance] that should be fairly achievable. Once you have all of your Energy needed to attack, you keep sending up Raging Bolt ex, unleashing all of your Energy, and applying a lot of damage to your opponents Pokémon! Seems simple enough now, right? 

Sandy Shocks: In a deck where all of the other attackers are worth two Prize Cards each, having a single Prize Card attacking option can be clutch! Sandy Shocks [Temporal Forces] allows you to attack popular single Prize Card Pokémon, like Charmander [Pokémon 151], to offset the Prize trade by offering up a Pokémon that’s only worth a single Prize Card. Additionally, it’s a solid answer to Mimikyu [Paldean Fates], otherwise you wouldn’t have a single option to attack into it.

Energy Retrieval: While Energy Retrieval [Scarlet and Violet] might seem like a basic Item Card, it does have plenty of use cases in this Raging Bolt ex. You can easily find it off of PokéStop [ Pokémon Go], use it to accelerate Energy to your Teal Mask Ogrepon ex in play, or draw cards with Radiant Greninja. Most of the cards in your deck are designed around Energy so the four count of this card is crucial to managing Energy everywhere!

PokéStop: While the two of count of PokéStop might imply that it isn’t one of the main cards in this deck, that would be far from the truth! PokéStop allows us to fetch the many Item Cards out of our deck, and maybe we’ll mill an occasional Energy Card to get back with Professor Sada’s Vitality too! It also counts as a Stadium bump to annoying Stadiums, such as Jamming Tower [Twilight Masquerade] that can shut off our Bravery Charm [Paldea Evolved] from working.