Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 19 lists we counted, this deck runs 18 to 22 Pokémon, 23 to 29 Trainers and 11 to 15 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Psychic, Grass and Water.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « clefairy-ogerpon ». Every card named in that label turns up in the tables below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.

Look at the Energy: 11 to 15 out of 60, when half the 59 decks we track run 10 or fewer. This one carries more than most, and you feel it at the table — it wants to load up a big Pokémon and swing hard, even if that means drawing a spare Energy now and then.

Nothing here needs evolving — everything that attacks is a Basic Pokémon. Put it down, charge it, swing. That is as fast as the game gets, and it makes those turns where you draw nothing far less painful.

On the Trainer side: 7 to 12 Supporters, 10 to 13 Items, 2 to 4 Tools and 3 to 4 Stadiums, out of 23 to 29 — the median across the 59 decks we track being 31. Items edge it without crushing the Supporters. And it runs up to 4 Stadiums, which is no accident: it plans on bumping the one across the table.

What those four families of Trainer actually do, and why the Energy count says so much: how to read a deck list.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Lillie's Clefairy ex and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Lillie's Clefairy ex is in all 19 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Fairy Zone, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « The Weakness of each of your opponent's {N} Pokémon in play is now {P}. (Apply Weakness as ×2.) »

Teal Mask Ogerpon ex is in all 19 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Teal Dance, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may attach a Basic {G} Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, draw a card. »

How Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex actually wins

Latias ex attacks with Eon Blade for 200, and it costs 3 Energy (Psychic, Psychic and Colorless), with 210 HP to absorb the answer. The whole list exists to get it online fast.

Do the arithmetic, it decides your first few turns. One Energy attached a turn, 3 to pay for Eon Blade: with no help you swing on turn 3, and every card that accelerates Energy buys one of those turns back.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games: Latias ex has a Retreat Cost of 2, which is a whole turn to get it back to the Bench.

Lillie's Clefairy ex, Meowth ex, Latias ex, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, Fezandipiti ex and Iron Leaves ex carry the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes TWO Prize cards instead of one when one of them falls. They need six to win: three well-placed knockouts on those cards beat you, where it would take six anywhere else on your Bench.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Latias exBasic	210	Eon Blade	200	Psychic + Psychic + Colorless	Darkness ×2	2
Iron Leaves exBasic	220	Prism Edge	180	Grass + Grass + Colorless	Fire ×2	1
Chien-PaoBasic	120	Icicle Loop	120	Water + Water + Colorless	Metal ×2	1
Meowth exBasic	170	Tuck Tail	60	Colorless + Colorless + Colorless	Fighting ×2	1

The core: the 17 cards every list runs

These 17 cards appear in all 19 lists, without a single exception. That is 43 of the 60 slots. The other 17 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 43 slots break down: 20 Trainers, 13 Pokémon, 10 Energy. The balance is a normal one, so it is the cards themselves, more than the split, that give this deck its character.

14 of those 17 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Lillie's Clefairy ex (3 to 4), Meowth ex (2 to 3) and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex (2 to 3), plus 11 more. Everybody runs them, the last copy is arguable.

What "3 to 4" means in the copies column, what the "TWM 130" code under each name is for, and why we count dozens of lists instead of one: how to read a deck list.

The cards present in every list counted, with the number of copies

Copies	Card	Printing	Kind	Rotation
3–4	Lillie's Clefairy ex	JTG 56	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Meowth ex	POR 62	Pokémon	stays
2	Latias ex	SSP 76	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	TWM 25	Pokémon	leaves
1	Chien-Pao	SSP 56	Pokémon	leaves
1–2	Fezandipiti ex	ASC 142	Pokémon	leaves
1	Iron Leaves ex	TEF 25	Pokémon	leaves
3–4	Area Zero Underdepths	SCR 131	Trainer	leaves
3–4	Energy Switch	MEG 115	Trainer	stays
3–4	Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
1–4	Crispin	SCR 133	Trainer	leaves
2–3	Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–4	Lillie's Pearl	JTG 151	Trainer	stays
1–2	Cyrano	SSP 170	Trainer	leaves
5–7	Grass Energy	MEE 1	Energy	stays
2–3	Psychic Energy	MEE 5	Energy	stays
1–4	Telepathic Psychic Energy	POR 88	Energy	stays

The 37 cards that change from list to list

37 cards fight over the 17 slots that are left: 3 above three lists in four, 22 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Mega Kangaskhan ex at 95 %, Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex at 84 % and Water Energy at 84 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Prime Catcher, at 53 %: 10 of 19 players took it, 9 put something else there. Read its text before you decide. Right at the bottom, Raging Bolt ex at 16 % and Mega Lopunny ex at 16 %: personal ideas, only worth copying if you know why.

Why a card at 45 % is not a bad card, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

The cards some lists run and others don't, most common first

Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
95 %18/19	Mega Kangaskhan ex	2–4	MEG 104	Pokémon
84 %16/19	Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 64	Pokémon
84 %16/19	Water Energy	1	MEE 3	Energy
74 %14/19	Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
68 %13/19	Paldean Tauros	1	SSP 18	Pokémon
68 %13/19	Night Stretcher	1–2	ASC 196	Trainer
68 %13/19	Fire Energy	1–2	MEE 2	Energy
53 %10/19	Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
42 %8/19	Lillie's Determination	2–3	MEG 119	Trainer
42 %8/19	Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
37 %7/19	Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
37 %7/19	Dusk Ball	3–4	SSP 175	Trainer
32 %6/19	Energy Retrieval	1	SVI 171	Trainer
32 %6/19	Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
32 %6/19	Prism Energy	1–2	ASC 216	Energy
16 %3/19	Raging Bolt ex	2	TEF 123	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Mega Lopunny ex	1	PFL 84	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Passimian	1	SSP 111	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Black Belt's Training	1	JTG 143	Trainer
16 %3/19	Fighting Energy	2	MEE 6	Energy
16 %3/19	Lightning Energy	2	MEE 4	Energy
11 %2/19	Buneary	1	MEG 107	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Frillish	1	WHT 44	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Iron Crown ex	1	TEF 81	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
5 %1/19	Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Buneary	1	PFL 83	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
5 %1/19	Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
5 %1/19	Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
5 %1/19	Pokémon Catcher	1	POR 82	Trainer
5 %1/19	Mist Energy	2	TEF 161	Energy

What Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 54 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 17 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

Where the money goes, though, we can name: it is Lillie's Clefairy ex, Meowth ex, Latias ex, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, Fezandipiti ex and Iron Leaves ex, by a distance. The 20 Trainer slots in the core cost next to nothing, and you probably own some already. This deck runs no ACE SPEC card at all.

Then there is time. 8 of the 17 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Latias ex, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, Chien-Pao and Fezandipiti ex, plus 4 more. The core table marks each of them. The date belongs to the publisher, and we do not have it.

What Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Darkness, Fire, Metal and Fighting, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 27 of the 59 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Excadrill ex, Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex and Slowking (Metagross), plus 24 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

Do not stop at this table, though. This deck sets up fast, so what troubles it looks less like a Weakness and more like an opponent who absorbs your first hits and answers harder.

Going the other way, your attackers are Psychic, Grass and Water, and 19 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, N's Zoroark ex and Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex deck list?

There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 19 tournament lists harvested on 16 August 2026, 17 cards turn up in every single one — 43 slots out of 60. The remaining 17 change from player to player, with 37 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

How many lists is this counted on, and where do they come from?

19 lists, played across 13 different tournaments, harvested on 16 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 19 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex?

With the whole core: 17 cards, 43 slots. Inside it, buy the 20 Trainer slots and the 10 Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into your next deck. Leave Lillie's Clefairy ex, Meowth ex, Latias ex, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, Fezandipiti ex and Iron Leaves ex for last, because that is the bill. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Mega Kangaskhan ex at 95 % and Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex at 84 %.

What beats Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex?

Its attackers are Weak to Darkness, Fire, Metal and Fighting, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 27 of the 59 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Excadrill ex, Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Slowking and N's Zoroark ex, among others.

Will Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 8 core cards out of 17 carry the letter H, starting with Latias ex, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, Chien-Pao and Fezandipiti ex, plus 4 more.

Are a lot of people playing Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex?

We have read 19 lists of it, which puts it 59th of the 59 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 54 entries for it, 0.21 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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