Doublade deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it
We took 20 lists of this deck, played across 20 tournaments by 20 people who never talked to each other, and counted every card in every one. 5 cards turn up in all of them, 16 slots out of 60. The remaining 44 are fought over by 73 different cards, and that is almost always where a game is won.
- 5 cards show up in all 20 lists, no exceptions: 16 of your 60 slots. Of those, 2 are Trainers, 14 are Pokémon and 0 are Energy. Start there, nobody argues about them.
- Your big card is Aegislash, 150 HP. Metal Slash hits for 230, and it costs you 4 Energy (Metal, Colorless, Colorless and Colorless).
- The sharpest disagreement is over Hilda: 10 of the 20 lists run it. The table below has all 73 cards fighting over the 44 free slots.
- Your attackers are Weak to Fire, and 6 of the 59 decks we track attack in that type: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Ethan's Typhlosion and Ceruledge ex, among others. They are listed at the bottom, with the card that does the damage.
What Doublade looks like when you open the box
Across the 20 lists we counted, this deck runs 21 to 25 Pokémon, 24 to 31 Trainers and 7 to 14 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Metal.
On results pages and on stream you will see it written « doublade-por ». Every card named in that label turns up in the tables below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.
The bit they tack on the end, « POR », is a set code: Perfect Order. They spell it out because several cards share that name, and this deck plays that particular printing.
Look at the Energy: 7 to 14 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.
It takes a while to set up. Aegislash is a Stage 2 Pokémon: you put down the baby, you evolve it, and then you evolve it again. Three cards stacked before anything attacks. That is what the hardest-hitting decks cost you, and it is also where they crack — a fast opponent can bury you before the line is standing.
On the Trainer side: 10 to 14 Supporters, 10 to 17 Items, 0 to 3 Tools and 0 to 4 Stadiums, out of 24 to 31 — 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 fills the 60 slots
- Pokémon
- 21–25
- Trainers
- 24–31
- Energy
- 7–14
- Supporters
- 10–14
- Items
- 10–17
- Tools
- 0–3
- Stadiums
- 0–4
A range means the lists disagree with each other.
How Doublade actually wins
Aegislash attacks with Metal Slash for 230, and it costs 4 Energy (Metal, Colorless, Colorless and Colorless), with 150 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, 4 to pay for Metal Slash: with no help you swing on turn 4, and every card that accelerates Energy buys one of those turns back.
Here is the detail that quietly loses games: Aegislash has a Retreat Cost of 3, which is a whole turn to get it back to the Bench.
Genesect ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes TWO Prize cards instead of one when Genesect ex falls. They need six to win: three well-placed knockouts on that card beat you, where it would take six anywhere else on your Bench.
| Pokémon | HP | Attack | Damage | Cost | Weakness | Retreat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AegislashStage 2 | 150 | Metal Slash | 230 | Metal + Colorless + Colorless + Colorless | Fire ×2 | 3 |
| Genesect exBasic | 220 | Protect Charge | 150 | Metal + Metal + Colorless | none | 2 |
| DoubladeStage 1 | 100 | Weaponized Swords | 60× | Colorless + Colorless | Fire ×2 | 2 |
| HonedgeBasic | 70 | Cut | 10 | Colorless | Fire ×2 | 2 |
The core: the 5 cards every list runs
These 5 cards appear in all 20 lists, without a single exception. That is 16 of the 60 slots. The other 44 are decided player by player.
Look at how those 16 slots break down: 2 Trainers, 14 Pokémon, 0 Energy. Pokémon dominate, which is unusual: this deck needs bodies on the board, and it depends on any single attacker less than it looks.
2 of those 5 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Genesect ex (2 to 3) and Boss's Orders (2 to 3). 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.
| Copies | Card | Printing | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Aegislash | POR 58 | Pokémon |
| 4 | Doublade | POR 57 | Pokémon |
| 4 | Honedge | POR 56 | Pokémon |
| 2–3 | Genesect ex | BLK 67 | Pokémon |
| 2–3 | Boss's Orders | MEG 114 | Trainer |
The 73 cards that change from list to list
73 cards fight over the 44 slots that are left: 7 above three lists in four, 43 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.
The most agreed on first: Fezandipiti ex at 90 %, Shaymin at 90 % and Poké Pad at 90 %, plus 4 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.
The dividing line runs through Hilda, at 50 %: 10 of 20 players took it, 10 put something else there. Read its text before you decide. Right at the bottom, Dunsparce at 25 % and Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex at 25 %: 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.
| Lists running it | Card | Copies | Printing | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 %18/20 | Fezandipiti ex | 1 | ASC 142 | Pokémon |
| 90 %18/20 | Shaymin | 1 | DRI 10 | Pokémon |
| 90 %18/20 | Poké Pad | 1–4 | POR 81 | Trainer |
| 85 %17/20 | Night Stretcher | 1–3 | ASC 196 | Trainer |
| 85 %17/20 | Buddy-Buddy Poffin | 1–4 | TEF 144 | Trainer |
| 80 %16/20 | Sacred Ash | 1–3 | DRI 168 | Trainer |
| 80 %16/20 | Metal Energy | 1–12 | MEE 8 | Energy |
| 70 %14/20 | Battle Cage | 1–3 | PFL 85 | Trainer |
| 70 %14/20 | Dawn | 1–4 | PFL 87 | Trainer |
| 60 %12/20 | Team Rocket's Petrel | 1–4 | DRI 176 | Trainer |
| 60 %12/20 | Lillie's Determination | 2–4 | MEG 119 | Trainer |
| 60 %12/20 | Lana's Aid | 1–2 | TWM 155 | Trainer |
| 60 %12/20 | Ignition Energy | 2–4 | WHT 86 | Energy |
| 55 %11/20 | Air Balloon | 1–2 | ASC 181 | Trainer |
| 55 %11/20 | Team Rocket's Transceiver | 2–4 | DRI 178 | Trainer |
| 55 %11/20 | Precious Trolley | 1 | SSP 185 | Trainer |
| 50 %10/20 | Hilda | 1–4 | WHT 84 | Trainer |
| 45 %9/20 | Energy Recycler | 1 | DRI 164 | Trainer |
| 45 %9/20 | Switch | 1–2 | MEG 130 | Trainer |
| 45 %9/20 | Psychic Energy | 2–5 | MEE 5 | Energy |
| 40 %8/20 | Steven's Beldum | 2–3 | DRI 143 | Pokémon |
| 40 %8/20 | Steven's Metagross ex | 2 | DRI 145 | Pokémon |
| 40 %8/20 | Steven's Metang | 1 | DRI 144 | Pokémon |
| 40 %8/20 | Rare Candy | 1–2 | MEG 125 | Trainer |
| 40 %8/20 | Special Red Card | 1–2 | CRI 82 | Trainer |
| 40 %8/20 | Ultra Ball | 1–3 | MEG 131 | Trainer |
| 35 %7/20 | Dudunsparce | 2–3 | TEF 129 | Pokémon |
| 35 %7/20 | Brock's Scouting | 1–3 | JTG 146 | Trainer |
| 30 %6/20 | Latias ex | 1–2 | SSP 76 | Pokémon |
| 30 %6/20 | Max Rod | 1 | PRE 116 | Trainer |
| 25 %5/20 | Dunsparce | 1–3 | JTG 120 | Pokémon |
| 25 %5/20 | Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex | 1 | TWM 141 | Pokémon |
| 25 %5/20 | Pokégear 3.0 | 2–4 | SVI 186 | Trainer |
| 20 %4/20 | Psyduck | 1 | ASC 39 | Pokémon |
| 20 %4/20 | Gwynn | 3–4 | PBL 78 | Trainer |
| 20 %4/20 | Philippe | 1–2 | CRI 79 | Trainer |
| 20 %4/20 | Brave Bangle | 1 | WHT 80 | Trainer |
| 20 %4/20 | Team Rocket's Watchtower | 1 | DRI 180 | Trainer |
| 20 %4/20 | Xerosic's Machinations | 1 | SFA 64 | Trainer |
| 20 %4/20 | Magnetic Metal Energy | 1–2 | CRI 85 | Energy |
| 15 %3/20 | Dunsparce | 2–3 | TEF 128 | Pokémon |
| 15 %3/20 | Joltik | 2 | SCR 50 | Pokémon |
| 15 %3/20 | Fan Rotom | 1 | SCR 118 | Pokémon |
| 15 %3/20 | Team Rocket's Factory | 1 | DRI 173 | Trainer |
| 15 %3/20 | Grass Energy | 3–4 | MEE 1 | Energy |
| 15 %3/20 | Lightning Energy | 3–4 | MEE 4 | Energy |
| 15 %3/20 | Enriching Energy | 1 | SSP 191 | Energy |
| 10 %2/20 | Alomomola | 1 | BLK 24 | Pokémon |
| 10 %2/20 | Budew | 1 | ASC 16 | Pokémon |
| 10 %2/20 | Hop's Cramorant | 1 | JTG 138 | Pokémon |
| 10 %2/20 | Meowth ex | 1 | POR 62 | Pokémon |
| 10 %2/20 | Jamming Tower | 1 | TWM 153 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Drakloak | 3 | TWM 129 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Dreepy | 3 | TWM 128 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Beldum | 2 | TEF 113 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Metang | 2 | TEF 114 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Dragapult ex | 1 | TWM 130 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Flutter Mane | 1 | TEF 78 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Lillie's Clefairy ex | 1 | JTG 56 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Mega Skarmory ex | 1 | POR 55 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Metagross | 1 | CRI 61 | Pokémon |
| 5 %1/20 | Prism Tower | 3 | CRI 80 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Crispin | 2 | SCR 133 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Cyrano | 1 | SSP 170 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Energy Search | 1 | POR 72 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Full Metal Lab | 1 | TEF 148 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Handheld Fan | 1 | TWM 150 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Kieran | 1 | TWM 154 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Nighttime Mine | 1 | ASC 197 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Redeemable Ticket | 1 | JTG 156 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Salvatore | 1 | TEF 160 | Trainer |
| 5 %1/20 | Mist Energy | 4 | TEF 161 | Energy |
| 5 %1/20 | Fire Energy | 2 | MEE 2 | Energy |
What Doublade costs to build, and how long it will last
You need 78 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 5 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 Genesect ex, by a distance. The 2 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, and the answer is a good one: not one of the 5 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. This deck walks through the change whole.
What Doublade struggles against
The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fire, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 6 of the 59 decks we track attack in exactly that type.
Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Ethan's Typhlosion and Ceruledge ex, plus 3 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 spends three cards getting Aegislash standing, and the deck that hurts you most this season may simply be the one that swings before your line is up, without ever touching your Weakness.
Going the other way, your attackers are Metal, and 8 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass, Dhelmise and Greninja ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.
They double the damage they put on you
| Deck | Their card | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex | Blaziken ex | Fire |
| Ethan's Typhlosion | Ethan's Typhlosion | Fire |
| Ceruledge ex | Ceruledge ex | Fire |
| Blaziken / N's Zoroark ex | Blaziken ex | Fire |
| Flareon ex / Noctowl | Flareon ex | Fire |
| Mega Charizard X ex | Mega Charizard X ex | Fire |
You double the damage you put on them
| Deck | Their card | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass | Froslass | Metal |
| Dhelmise | Lillie's Clefairy ex | Metal |
| Greninja ex | Mega Froslass ex | Metal |
| Mega Starmie ex / Froslass | Mega Froslass ex | Metal |
| Froslass / Munkidori | Froslass | Metal |
| Lillie's Clefairy ex | Lillie's Clefairy ex | Metal |
| Lillie's Clefairy ex / Teal Mask Ogerpon ex | Chien-Pao | Metal |
| Mega Diancie ex / Dusknoir | Mega Diancie ex | Metal |
Questions people ask
- What is the Doublade deck list?
- There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 20 tournament lists harvested between 11 August 2026 and 16 August 2026, 5 cards turn up in every single one — 16 slots out of 60. The remaining 44 change from player to player, with 73 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.
- How many lists is this counted on, and where do they come from?
- 20 lists, played across 20 different tournaments, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 16 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 20 were read card by card, and every card recognised.
- Where do I start if I want to build Doublade?
- With the whole core: 5 cards, 16 slots. Inside it, buy the 2 Trainer slots and the 0 Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into your next deck. Leave Genesect 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 Fezandipiti ex at 90 % and Shaymin at 90 %.
- What beats Doublade?
- Its attackers are Weak to Fire, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 6 of the 59 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Ethan's Typhlosion, Ceruledge ex and Blaziken / N's Zoroark ex, among others.
- Will Doublade survive the next rotation?
- Yes, whole: not one of the 5 core cards carries the letter H. At equal price, that is the argument that should settle where your money goes.
- Are a lot of people playing Doublade?
- We have read 20 lists of it, which puts it 57th 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.
Where all of this comes from
20 lists from play.limitlesstcg.com, played across 20 events, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 16 August 2026. The 78 cards named here were read against poko's own catalogue, built on the public TCGdex API. No prices on this page, for want of a fresh enough reading. The TCGplayer link in the cost section is a shop link, labelled as one right where it stands.
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