What is the Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity deck list?

There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 20 tournament lists harvested on 11 August 2026, 9 cards turn up in every single one — 36 slots out of 60. The remaining 24 change from player to player, with 71 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 on 11 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. Every one of them was read card by card, and every card was recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build this deck?

With the whole core: 9 cards, 36 slots. Inside that core, buy the Trainers and Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into other decks — and leave the 1 ex Pokémon for last, because they are the bill. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on.

What beats this deck?

Its attackers are Weak to Grass and Fighting, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. Of the decks we track, 18 play an attacker of that type: Alakazam / Dudunsparce, Beedrill ex, Ceruledge ex and Crustle, among others. One caveat. Weakness tells you where to look first. What settles the game sits further along.

Will this deck survive the next rotation?

Yes, and without losing anything. No core card carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. That is a real argument when you are deciding where to put your money.

Are these numbers current?

The lists were harvested on 11 August 2026, and the harvest runs every night. Every new list joins the count, so the percentages on this page move on their own as the format moves. When a card crosses over from the flex table into the core, that is the players moving first and the count following them.

Meta deck20 lists · 20 events · 11 August 2026

Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

We took 20 lists of this deck and counted every card in every one of them. They come from 20 different tournaments, built by 20 people who never talked to each other. What all of them run is the core of the deck: 9 cards, 36 slots out of 60. The rest — 71 cards fighting over what is left — is where players disagree, and that is usually where a game is won.

Published 11 August 2026Data updated 11 August 2026

THE SHORT VERSION

9 cards show up in all 20 lists we counted. No exceptions. That is 36 of your 60 slots. If you are building this deck, start there — nobody argues about those.
Your big card is Mega Sharpedo ex, 330 HP. Hungry Jaws hits for 120+, and it costs you 2 Energy (Darkness and Darkness).
71 cards change from list to list. That is exactly where a good player tunes the deck for what they expect to face, and the table below tells you how many lists run each one.
This deck has a Weakness printed right on its cards: Grass and Fighting. 18 of the decks we track attack in exactly that type. They are listed at the bottom, with the card that does the damage.

What this deck looks like when you open the box

Across the 20 lists we counted, this deck runs 15 to 20 Pokémon, 31 to 37 Trainers and 8 to 11 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Darkness.

Limitless files it under « sharpedo-toxtricity », and that is the label you will see on results pages and on stream. Every card named in it turns up in the core below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.

Look at the Energy count first: 8 to 11 out of 60. No single number tells you more about how a deck breathes. A lot of Energy means it wants to load up one big Pokémon and swing hard. Very little means it lives on cheap attacks and on Trainers to dig out whatever it is missing.

It sets up fast. Mega Sharpedo ex is a Stage 1 Pokémon: a Basic, one evolution on top, and you are attacking. Two cards instead of three. You lose fewer turns building, and you rebuild much more easily when an early knockout lands on you.

On the Trainer side: 8 to 14 Supporters, 11 to 22 Items, 2 to 4 Tools and 2 to 4 Stadiums. Worth saying out loud, because everyone forgets it once a tournament: you only get ONE Supporter a turn, while you can chain as many Items as you like. So a deck full of Items takes longer, louder turns than a deck full of Supporters.

What fills the 60 slots

Pokémon: 15–20
Trainers: 31–37
Energy: 8–11
Supporters: 8–14
Items: 11–22
Tools: 2–4
Stadiums: 2–4

A range means the lists disagree with each other.

How it actually wins

Mega Sharpedo ex attacks with Hungry Jaws for 120+, and it costs 2 Energy (Darkness and Darkness). It has 330 HP to absorb the answer. Everything else in the list is built around getting that card online.

Do the arithmetic with us, because it decides your first few turns. You attach one Energy a turn by hand. Mega Sharpedo ex wants 2. With no help, that means you swing on turn 2 at the earliest. Every card in this deck that accelerates Energy or fetches a Pokémon buys back a turn on that count, and at this level a turn is a game.

Good news on mobility: Mega Sharpedo ex retreats for 0 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.

1 of the core Pokémon carry the « ex » suffix. Those are the big ones: high HP, attacks that hurt, and the price tag to match. They also cost you more when they fall — an opponent takes extra Prize cards for knocking out an ex, so every trade you lose there walks you towards the loss faster than you think.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness
Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Mega Sharpedo exStage 1	330	Hungry Jaws	120+	Darkness + Darkness	Grass ×2	0
ToxtricityStage 1	140	Gentle Slap	100	Darkness + Darkness + Colorless	Fighting ×2	2
CarvanhaBasic	70	Reckless Charge	30	Darkness	Grass ×2	1
ToxelBasic	70	Playful Kick	20	Darkness + Colorless	Fighting ×2	1

The core: the 9 cards every list runs

These 9 cards appear in all 20 lists, without a single exception. That is 36 of the 60 slots. The other 24 are decided player by player.

This is the most useful table on the page, and nobody publishes it. Everywhere else you get one list, from one player, who won one tournament. Fine — but you have no way of telling which parts of it were the deck and which parts were that person's idea on the day. Counting 20 lists settles the question by itself: what 20 people put in their deck without talking to each other IS the deck.

A word on the count column. We give you the number that comes up most often, and where the lists disagree we give you the range instead. A card sitting at "3 to 4" is one everybody plays but whose fourth copy is up for debate. That is exactly the kind of slot you reclaim when you want to fit an idea of your own.

The code next to the name — "TWM 130" and the like — is the set and the collector number, printed at the bottom of the card. We show you the printing the lists use most often, because two cards can share a name and have completely different attacks. Check that number before you buy anything.

The cards present in every list counted, with the number of copies
Copies	Card	Printing	Kind
3–4	Carvanha	PFL 60	Pokémon
2–3	Mega Sharpedo ex	PFL 61	Pokémon
2–3	Toxel	PFL 67	Pokémon
2	Toxtricity	PFL 68	Pokémon
2–4	Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer
3–4	Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer
1–4	Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer
2–3	Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer
6–11	Darkness Energy	MEE 7	Energy

What changes from one list to the next

71 cards show up in some lists and not in others. The percentage tells you how many lists run each one: at 50%, half the players want it and the other half deliberately chose something else.

Do not read this table as a ranking from best to worst. A card sitting at 80% is one four players in five find useful and the fifth cut on purpose, usually because they were expecting a different field. That disagreement is worth something on its own.

Here is how to use it when you build. Take the whole core first, no arguing. Then walk down this list and stop on every card you do not understand: read its text, work out what it is answering. A card you cannot explain is a card you will misplay, even if the champion had it in their list.

And if this is your first time with the deck, build the boring version — the full core plus the most common cards from here. Understand the deck before you start tinkering with it. That order is the only one that works.

The cards some lists run and others don't, most common first
Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
95 %19/20	Munkidori	1–3	TWM 95	Pokémon
90 %18/20	Buddy-Buddy Poffin	1–4	TEF 144	Trainer
90 %18/20	Mega Signal	1–3	MEG 121	Trainer
85 %17/20	Pecharunt ex	1–2	SFA 39	Pokémon
85 %17/20	Gravity Mountain	1–4	SSP 177	Trainer
80 %16/20	Binding Mochi	2–3	PRE 95	Trainer
65 %13/20	Janine's Secret Art	1–3	PRE 112	Trainer
65 %13/20	Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
65 %13/20	Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
55 %11/20	Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
45 %9/20	Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
35 %7/20	Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
35 %7/20	Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
35 %7/20	Wally's Compassion	1–2	MEG 132	Trainer
30 %6/20	Mega Kangaskhan ex	1–3	MEG 104	Pokémon
30 %6/20	Energy Switch	1–3	MEG 115	Trainer
30 %6/20	Judge	1–4	POR 76	Trainer
25 %5/20	Yveltal	1	MEG 88	Pokémon
25 %5/20	Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
25 %5/20	Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
20 %4/20	Buneary	1–2	PFL 83	Pokémon
20 %4/20	Mega Lopunny ex	1	PFL 84	Pokémon
20 %4/20	Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
20 %4/20	Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–3	DRI 180	Trainer
15 %3/20	Dudunsparce	1–3	TEF 129	Pokémon
15 %3/20	Pokégear 3.0	1–2	SVI 186	Trainer
15 %3/20	Risky Ruins	1–2	MEG 127	Trainer
10 %2/20	Tatsugiri	1–2	TWM 131	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Dudunsparce ex	1	JTG 121	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Dunsparce	1	JTG 120	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Crushing Hammer	2–4	POR 71	Trainer
10 %2/20	Battle Cage	1–2	PFL 85	Trainer
10 %2/20	Dark Bell	1–2	PBL 75	Trainer
10 %2/20	Kofu	2	SCR 138	Trainer
10 %2/20	Team Rocket's Factory	2	DRI 173	Trainer
10 %2/20	Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
10 %2/20	Energy Retrieval	1	SVI 171	Trainer
10 %2/20	Handheld Fan	1	TWM 150	Trainer
10 %2/20	Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
10 %2/20	Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
10 %2/20	Prism Energy	1–2	ASC 216	Energy
5 %1/20	Dunsparce	3	TEF 128	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Brute Bonnet	2	TWM 118	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Okidogi ex	2	SFA 36	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Chi-Yu	1	PBL 59	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Mega Absol ex	1	MEG 86	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Seviper	1	PFL 62	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	2	TEF 145	Trainer
5 %1/20	Hilda	2	WHT 84	Trainer
5 %1/20	AZ's Tranquility	1	CRI 76	Trainer
5 %1/20	Colress's Tenacity	1	SFA 57	Trainer
5 %1/20	Cyrano	1	SSP 170	Trainer
5 %1/20	Drayton	1	SSP 174	Trainer
5 %1/20	Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
5 %1/20	Eri	1	TEF 146	Trainer
5 %1/20	Gravity Gemstone	1	SCR 137	Trainer
5 %1/20	Hand Trimmer	1	TEF 150	Trainer
5 %1/20	Iris's Fighting Spirit	1	JTG 149	Trainer
5 %1/20	Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
5 %1/20	Repel	1	MEG 126	Trainer
5 %1/20	Team Rocket's Transceiver	1	DRI 178	Trainer
5 %1/20	Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
5 %1/20	Mist Energy	2	TEF 161	Energy
5 %1/20	Shadowy Darkness Energy	2	PBL 83	Energy

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

You need 80 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 9 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

What we can tell you is where the money goes. 1 ex Pokémon in the core, and they are almost the whole bill. The Trainers and basic Energy are near enough free, or already in your box. This deck runs no ACE SPEC card at all.

And here is a genuinely good piece of news: not one core card carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. This deck walks through the change with its skeleton intact. At equal price, that is the argument that should settle it.

One last piece of old-player advice. Never build a deck card by card starting with the prettiest one. Start with the core Trainers: they are cheap, they carry over into other decks, and they are what makes the machine run. Buy the expensive Pokémon last, once you know you actually enjoy the deck.

What this deck struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Grass and Fighting. A card with a Weakness takes DOUBLE damage from an attacker of that type. Of the decks we track, 18 attack in exactly that type.

Here is how the table below is built. The Weakness is printed on your cards, the type of the attacker across the table is printed on theirs, and the fact that this particular deck really does play that attacker is counted off its own lists. You can check every line of it with the cards in your hand.

One limit, while we are here. Weakness alone does not decide a match. A deck can double your damage and still lose because it sets up too slowly, or crush you without ever touching your Weakness. This table tells you where to look first. What settles the game sits further along.

Going the other way, your attackers are Darkness — and 19 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

They double the damage they put on you

Harvested decks that attack into this deck's Weakness, and those whose Weakness this deck hits
Deck	Their card	Type
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	Shaymin	Grass
Beedrill ex	Beedrill ex	Grass
Ceruledge ex	Solrock	Fighting
Crustle	Crustle	Grass
Erika's Victreebel	Erika's Victreebel	Grass
festival-lead	Thwackey	Grass
Flareon ex / Noctowl	Leafeon ex	Grass
Greninja ex	Greninja ex	Fighting
Hop's Trevenant	Shaymin	Grass
Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama	Mega Lucario ex	Fighting
Mega Lucario ex	Mega Lucario ex	Fighting
Meganium / Hydrapple ex	Meganium	Grass
Mega Zygarde ex / Barbaracle	Mega Zygarde ex	Fighting
Ethan's Typhlosion	Shaymin	Grass
Meganium / Arboliva ex	Arboliva ex	Grass
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex	Team Rocket's Spidops	Grass
Cynthia's Garchomp ex	Cynthia's Garchomp ex	Fighting
Okidogi / Barbaracle	Bloodmoon Ursaluna	Fighting

You double the damage you put on them

Harvested decks that attack into this deck's Weakness, and those whose Weakness this deck hits
Deck	Their card	Type
Alakazam / Dudunsparce	Kadabra	Darkness
basic-box-m	Latias ex	Darkness
Blaziken / N's Zoroark ex	Munkidori	Darkness
Dhelmise	Banette	Darkness
Dragapult ex / Dudunsparce	Munkidori	Darkness
Dragapult ex / Dusknoir	Dusknoir	Darkness
Dragapult ex	Munkidori	Darkness
Froslass / Munkidori	Munkidori	Darkness
Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass	Munkidori	Darkness
Hop's Trevenant	Hop's Trevenant	Darkness
Mega Absol ex	Latias ex	Darkness
Mega Chandelure ex	Mega Chandelure ex	Darkness
N's Zoroark ex	Munkidori	Darkness
Raging Bolt ex	Latias ex	Darkness
Mega Starmie ex / Dusknoir	Dusknoir	Darkness
Mega Starmie ex / Froslass	Munkidori	Darkness
Toxtricity	Munkidori	Darkness
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex	Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex	Darkness
Slowking	Latias ex	Darkness

Questions people ask

What is the Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity deck list?: There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 20 tournament lists harvested on 11 August 2026, 9 cards turn up in every single one — 36 slots out of 60. The remaining 24 change from player to player, with 71 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 on 11 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. Every one of them was read card by card, and every card was recognised.
Where do I start if I want to build this deck?: With the whole core: 9 cards, 36 slots. Inside that core, buy the Trainers and Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into other decks — and leave the 1 ex Pokémon for last, because they are the bill. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on.
What beats this deck?: Its attackers are Weak to Grass and Fighting, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. Of the decks we track, 18 play an attacker of that type: Alakazam / Dudunsparce, Beedrill ex, Ceruledge ex and Crustle, among others. One caveat. Weakness tells you where to look first. What settles the game sits further along.
Will this deck survive the next rotation?: Yes, and without losing anything. No core card carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. That is a real argument when you are deciding where to put your money.
Are these numbers current?: The lists were harvested on 11 August 2026, and the harvest runs every night. Every new list joins the count, so the percentages on this page move on their own as the format moves. When a card crosses over from the flex table into the core, that is the players moving first and the count following them.

Where all of this comes from

The 20 lists come from play.limitlesstcg.com, which publishes the decks played at official tournaments. They were harvested on 11 August 2026 across 20 different events, then read card by card against poko's own card catalogue (built from the public TCGdex API) to recover what each card actually does. Card prices appear nowhere on this page: we do not have them, and nothing here links to a shop.

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