Flygon ex deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Flygon ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 9 lists we counted, this deck runs 14 to 20 Pokémon, 34 to 36 Trainers and 5 to 12 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Fighting.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « flygon-ex-ssp ». 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, « SSP », is a set code: Surging Sparks. They spell it out because several cards share that name, and this deck plays that particular printing.

Look at the Energy: 5 to 12 out of 60, when half the 91 decks we track run 10 or more. This one is lean. It lives on cheap attacks and leans on Trainers to find the right Energy at the right moment rather than stockpiling it.

It takes a while to set up. Flygon 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: 10 to 12 Supporters, 19 to 21 Items, 0 to 3 Tools and 1 to 3 Stadiums, out of 34 to 36 — 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 card in this deck's name actually does

Flygon ex gives this deck its name. Here is what is written on it.

Flygon ex is in all 9 lists, 3 copies of it. Its attack Sonic Peridot costs 3 Energy (Water, Fighting and Metal) and has no damage number printed next to it. That is why you will not find it in the attacker table lower down, which sorts by printed damage. Everything it does lives in its text: « This attack does 100 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon ex and Pokémon V. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance. »

How Flygon ex actually wins

Flygon ex attacks with Reversing Storm for 130, and it costs 1 Energy (Fighting), with 310 HP to absorb the answer. The whole list exists to get it online fast.

One Energy to attack is enormous, and it means the attack cost will never be what slows you down. What slows you down here is getting Flygon ex up. Once the line is standing you swing every turn with nothing to recharge, and you can start again immediately when your attacker falls.

Good news on mobility: Flygon 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.

Flygon ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes TWO Prize cards instead of one when Flygon 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
Flygon exStage 2	310	Reversing Storm	130	Fighting	Grass ×2	1
VibravaStage 1	90	Cutting Wind	50	Fighting + Colorless	Grass ×2	1
TrapinchBasic	70	Double Headbutt	10×	Fighting	Grass ×2	1

The core: the 10 cards every list runs

These 10 cards appear in all 9 lists, without a single exception. That is 31 of the 60 slots. The other 29 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 31 slots break down: 22 Trainers, 9 Pokémon, 0 Energy. Trainers outweigh everything else put together, which is the mark of a deck that goes and fetches its cards rather than waiting to draw them.

9 of those 10 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Trapinch (2 to 4), Flygon ex (2 to 3) and Vibrava (1 to 2), plus 6 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
2–4	Trapinch	PFL 51	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Flygon ex	SSP 106	Pokémon	leaves
1–2	Vibrava	SSP 105	Pokémon	leaves
4	Buddy-Buddy Poffin	TEF 144	Trainer	leaves
2–4	Hilda	WHT 84	Trainer	stays
3–4	Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
3–4	Rare Candy	MEG 125	Trainer	stays
2–3	Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–3	Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
1–2	Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays

The 36 cards that change from list to list

36 cards fight over the 29 slots that are left: 11 above three lists in four, 21 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Dudunsparce at 89 %, Dunsparce at 89 % and Fan Rotom at 89 %, plus 8 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Acerola's Mischief, at 44 %: 4 of 9 players took it, 5 put something else there. Read its text before you decide. Right at the bottom, Bastiodon at 22 % and Antique Armor Fossil at 22 %: 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
89 %8/9	Dudunsparce	3	TEF 129	Pokémon
89 %8/9	Dunsparce	2	TEF 128	Pokémon
89 %8/9	Fan Rotom	1–2	SCR 118	Pokémon
89 %8/9	Kecleon	2	SSP 150	Pokémon
89 %8/9	Dunsparce	1	JTG 120	Pokémon
89 %8/9	Dark Bell	3–4	PBL 75	Trainer
89 %8/9	Premium Power Pro	4	MEG 124	Trainer
89 %8/9	Air Balloon	2	ASC 181	Trainer
89 %8/9	Battle Cage	2–3	PFL 85	Trainer
89 %8/9	Rocky Fighting Energy	4	POR 87	Energy
89 %8/9	Enriching Energy	1	SSP 191	Energy
44 %4/9	Acerola's Mischief	1	MEG 113	Trainer
44 %4/9	Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
33 %3/9	Team Rocket's Petrel	1	DRI 176	Trainer
33 %3/9	Tremendous Bomb	1	PBL 82	Trainer
22 %2/9	Bastiodon	1	PBL 62	Pokémon
22 %2/9	Antique Armor Fossil	1	PBL 72	Trainer
22 %2/9	Magnetic Metal Energy	1	CRI 85	Energy
22 %2/9	Mist Energy	1	TEF 161	Energy
11 %1/9	Snorunt	3	ASC 46	Pokémon
11 %1/9	Lunatone	2	MEG 74	Pokémon
11 %1/9	Mega Froslass ex	2	ASC 47	Pokémon
11 %1/9	Solrock	2	MEG 75	Pokémon
11 %1/9	Archeops	1	WHT 51	Pokémon
11 %1/9	Ethan's Sudowoodo	1	DRI 93	Pokémon
11 %1/9	Fighting Gong	4	MEG 116	Trainer
11 %1/9	Night Stretcher	4	ASC 196	Trainer
11 %1/9	Crispin	2	SCR 133	Trainer
11 %1/9	Antique Plume Fossil	1	WHT 79	Trainer
11 %1/9	Tarragon	1	POR 85	Trainer
11 %1/9	Team Rocket's Watchtower	1	DRI 180	Trainer
11 %1/9	Wally's Compassion	1	MEG 132	Trainer
11 %1/9	Fighting Energy	6	MEE 6	Energy
11 %1/9	Water Energy	3	MEE 3	Energy
11 %1/9	Metal Energy	2	MEE 8	Energy
11 %1/9	Neo Upper Energy	1	TEF 162	Energy

The most common Flygon ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 31 slots come from the core, the cards all 9 lists run. The remaining 29 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 9 lists actually showed. It comes to 19 Pokémon, 36 Trainers and 5 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: 19
4 Trapinch PFL 51
3 Flygon ex SSP 106
2 Vibrava SSP 105
3 Dudunsparce TEF 129
2 Dunsparce TEF 128
2 Fan Rotom SCR 118
2 Kecleon SSP 150
1 Dunsparce JTG 120

Trainer: 36
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
4 Hilda WHT 84
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Rare Candy MEG 125
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Poké Pad POR 81
1 Ultra Ball MEG 131
4 Dark Bell PBL 75
4 Premium Power Pro MEG 124
2 Air Balloon ASC 181
2 Battle Cage PFL 85
1 Acerola's Mischief MEG 113
1 Special Red Card CRI 82

Energy: 5
4 Rocky Fighting Energy POR 87
1 Enriching Energy SSP 191

Total Cards: 60

What Flygon ex costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 46 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 10 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 Flygon ex, by a distance. The 22 Trainer slots in the core cost next to nothing, and you probably own some already. All 9 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 8 took Enriching Energy and 1 took Neo Upper Energy. 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 Enriching Energy and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 3 of the 10 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Flygon ex, Vibrava and Buddy-Buddy Poffin. The core table marks each of them. The date belongs to the publisher, and we do not have it.

What Flygon ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Grass, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 18 of the 91 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Festival Lead (Thwackey), Alakazam / Dudunsparce (Shaymin) and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex, plus 15 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 Flygon 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 Fighting, and 34 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex, Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex and Dragapult ex / Dusknoir, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Flygon ex deck list?

There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 9 tournament lists harvested on 16 August 2026, 10 cards turn up in every single one — 31 slots out of 60. The remaining 29 change from player to player, with 36 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

9 lists, played across 9 different tournaments, harvested on 16 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 9 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Flygon ex?

With the whole core: 10 cards, 31 slots. Inside it, buy the 22 Trainer slots and the 0 Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into your next deck. Leave Flygon 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 Dudunsparce at 89 % and Dunsparce at 89 %.

What beats Flygon ex?

Its attackers are Weak to Grass, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 18 of the 91 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Festival Lead, Alakazam / Dudunsparce, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex and Beedrill ex, among others.

Will Flygon ex survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 3 core cards out of 10 carry the letter H, starting with Flygon ex, Vibrava and Buddy-Buddy Poffin.

Are a lot of people playing Flygon ex?

We have read 9 lists of it, which puts it 87th of the 91 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 9 entries for it, 0.03 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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