Dragapult ex / Froslass deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Dragapult ex / Froslass looks like when you open the box

Across the 16 lists we counted, this deck runs 20 to 22 Pokémon, 29 to 31 Trainers and 9 to 10 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Psychic, Fire and Water.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « dragapult-froslass ». 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: 9 to 10 out of 60, exactly the median of the 91 decks we track. It draws neither too much nor too little, so this is not where its games are won or lost.

It takes a while to set up. Dragapult ex 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: 9 to 12 Supporters, 15 to 18 Items, 0 to 2 Tools and 2 to 3 Stadiums, out of 29 to 31 — the median across the 91 decks we track being 31. Items dominate, so expect long turns where you chain five or six before you swing. And it runs up to 3 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

Dragapult ex and Froslass give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Dragapult ex is in all 16 lists, 2 copies of it.

Froslass is in all 16 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Freezing Shroud, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « During Pokémon Checkup, put 1 damage counter on each Pokémon that has an Ability (both yours and your opponent's), except any Froslass. »

How Dragapult ex / Froslass actually wins

Dragapult ex attacks with Phantom Dive for 200, and it costs 2 Energy (Fire and Psychic), with 320 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, 2 to pay for Phantom Dive: with no help you swing on turn 2, and every card that accelerates Energy buys one of those turns back.

Good news on mobility: Dragapult ex retreats for 1 Energy. You can pull it out of the Active spot without throwing away your turn, and that matters enormously when your opponent lands something nasty on it.

Dragapult ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes TWO Prize cards instead of one when Dragapult 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.

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

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Dragapult exStage 2	320	Phantom Dive	200	Fire + Psychic	none	1
DrakloakStage 1	90	Dragon Headbutt	70	Fire + Psychic	none	1
FroslassStage 1	90	Frost Smash	60	Water + Colorless	Metal ×2	1
MunkidoriBasic	110	Mind Bend	60	Psychic + Colorless	Darkness ×2	1

The core: the 18 cards every list runs

These 18 cards appear in all 16 lists, without a single exception. That is 52 of the 60 slots. The other 8 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 52 slots break down: 25 Trainers, 18 Pokémon, 9 Energy. The balance is a normal one, so it is the cards themselves, more than the split, that give this deck its character.

17 of those 18 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Drakloak (3 to 4), Dreepy (3 to 4) and Munkidori (2 to 3), plus 14 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	Drakloak	TWM 129	Pokémon	leaves
3–4	Dreepy	TWM 128	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Munkidori	TWM 95	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Dragapult ex	TWM 130	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Froslass	TWM 53	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Snorunt	ASC 46	Pokémon	stays
1–2	Budew	ASC 16	Pokémon	leaves
2–4	Buddy-Buddy Poffin	TEF 144	Trainer	leaves
3–4	Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
3–4	Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
2–4	Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
2–4	Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–3	Crispin	SCR 133	Trainer	leaves
2–3	Night Stretcher	ASC 196	Trainer	leaves
1	Special Red Card	CRI 82	Trainer	stays
2–3	Darkness Energy	MEE 7	Energy	stays
3–4	Fire Energy	MEE 2	Energy	stays
3–4	Psychic Energy	MEE 5	Energy	stays

The 29 cards that change from list to list

29 cards fight over the 8 slots that are left: 2 above three lists in four, 18 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Meowth ex at 88 % and Unfair Stamp at 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Yveltal, at 50 %: 8 of 16 players took it, 8 put something else there. Read its text before you decide. Right at the bottom, Mega Froslass ex at 25 % and Jamming Tower 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.

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

Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
88 %14/16	Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
75 %12/16	Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
69 %11/16	Area Zero Underdepths	1–2	SCR 131	Trainer
56 %9/16	Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
50 %8/16	Yveltal	1	MEG 88	Pokémon
50 %8/16	Rare Candy	1–2	MEG 125	Trainer
44 %7/16	Rosa's Encouragement	1	POR 84	Trainer
38 %6/16	Dawn	1	PFL 87	Trainer
31 %5/16	Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
31 %5/16	Team Rocket's Watchtower	2	DRI 180	Trainer
31 %5/16	Team Rocket's Petrel	1–3	DRI 176	Trainer
25 %4/16	Mega Froslass ex	1	ASC 47	Pokémon
25 %4/16	Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
19 %3/16	Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
13 %2/16	Maractus	1	JTG 8	Pokémon
13 %2/16	Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
13 %2/16	Judge	1	POR 76	Trainer
13 %2/16	Bubbly Water Energy	1	CRI 84	Energy
13 %2/16	Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
13 %2/16	Water Energy	1	MEE 3	Energy
6 %1/16	Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
6 %1/16	Pokégear 3.0	2	SVI 186	Trainer
6 %1/16	Risky Ruins	2	MEG 127	Trainer
6 %1/16	Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	2	DRI 179	Trainer
6 %1/16	Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
6 %1/16	Hilda	1	WHT 84	Trainer
6 %1/16	Hyper Aroma	1	TWM 152	Trainer
6 %1/16	Scoop Up Cyclone	1	TWM 162	Trainer
6 %1/16	Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer

The most common Dragapult ex / Froslass list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 52 slots come from the core, the cards all 16 lists run. The remaining 8 come from the table just above, working down it: the cards the most players chose, each at its most common copy count, until the total lands on 60.

This list is nobody's list in particular. It takes, slot by slot, what the most people played, under the same guardrails a judge would hold you to: four copies of a card at most, one ACE SPEC, and a split that stays inside what these 16 lists actually showed. It comes to 21 Pokémon, 30 Trainers and 9 Energy.

A word on what it measures, because it changes what you can expect from it. The lists we read are the ones from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament. So there is no losing list to hold up against them, and "the cards that win" is not a sentence this count knows how to write. What you have in front of you is what the players finishing near the top bring most often. Start there.

The text under the table is the one the game expects. Copy it, open the deck manager, paste, and the list builds itself. Names in there are in English, with the set code and collector number right beside them: that pair points at one card and one only, whatever language you play in.

There is no price total on this page. The readings we have are Cardmarket's, in euros, and the shop link further down sends you to TCGplayer, which quotes in dollars. Putting a euro figure next to a dollar shop would be one currency too many. The French and German pages carry the total.

How to read the percentages in the table above, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

Pokémon: 21
4 Drakloak TWM 129
4 Dreepy TWM 128
3 Munkidori TWM 95
2 Dragapult ex TWM 130
2 Froslass TWM 53
2 Snorunt ASC 46
1 Budew ASC 16
1 Meowth ex POR 62
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
1 Yveltal MEG 88

Trainer: 30
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Poké Pad POR 81
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
3 Crispin SCR 133
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Unfair Stamp TWM 165
2 Area Zero Underdepths SCR 131
1 Rare Candy MEG 125
1 Rosa's Encouragement POR 84

Energy: 9
3 Darkness Energy MEE 7
3 Fire Energy MEE 2
3 Psychic Energy MEE 5

Total Cards: 60

What Dragapult ex / Froslass costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 47 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 18 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 Dragapult ex, by a distance. The 25 Trainer slots in the core cost next to nothing, and you probably own some already. All 16 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 12 took Unfair Stamp, 2 took Legacy Energy and 1 took Hyper Aroma. The flex table shows you all 4. You are allowed ONE ACE SPEC card in your whole deck, so a single copy covers it whatever it costs. New to this deck? Take Unfair Stamp and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 9 of the 18 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Drakloak, Dreepy, Munkidori and Dragapult ex, plus 5 more. The core table marks each of them. The date belongs to the publisher, and we do not have it.

What Dragapult ex / Froslass struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Metal and Darkness, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 23 of the 91 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking (Metagross) and N's Zoroark ex, plus 20 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 Dragapult ex 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 Psychic, Fire and Water, and 14 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Mega Lucario ex and Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Dragapult ex / Froslass deck list?

There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 16 tournament lists harvested on 16 August 2026, 18 cards turn up in every single one — 52 slots out of 60. The remaining 8 change from player to player, with 29 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

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

Where do I start if I want to build Dragapult ex / Froslass?

With the whole core: 18 cards, 52 slots. Inside it, buy the 25 Trainer slots and the 9 Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into your next deck. Leave Dragapult 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 Meowth ex at 88 % and Unfair Stamp at 75 %.

What beats Dragapult ex / Froslass?

Its attackers are Weak to Metal and Darkness, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 23 of the 91 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking, N's Zoroark ex and Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass, among others.

Will Dragapult ex / Froslass survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 9 core cards out of 18 carry the letter H, starting with Drakloak, Dreepy, Munkidori and Dragapult ex, plus 5 more.

Are a lot of people playing Dragapult ex / Froslass?

We have read 16 lists of it, which puts it 72th of the 91 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 16 entries for it, 0.06 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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