Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This deck was not the first one I made over the Chaos Rising season, but it was the first one to reach a satisfactory state, so it’s coming up first. (“Sundae School” was first constructed during the Perfect Order season as my representative Water-type deck.) This doesn’t cover any type in particular, though it does use Fighting Energy because Paldean Tauros, the one used in this deck, needs Fighting Energy.
That first deck will be showcased later.
POKÉMON (8)
4x Paldean Tauros (Phantasmal Flames)
4x Tauros (Chaos Rising)
TRAINERS (42)
1x Battle Cage
3x Boss’s Orders
3x Brave Bangle
3x Brock’s Scouting
4x Colress’s Tenacity
2x Fighting Gong
4x Lillie’s Determination
3x Naveen
2x Night Stretcher
4x Poké Pad
1x Precious Trolley
4x Risky Ruins
1x Special Red Card
2x Switch
2x Tarragon
3x Team Rocket’s Petrel
ENERGY (10)
10x Fighting Energy
As you can see, I only have Tauros in this deck. (If there was a Tauros ex, I’d have that there too. 8 Pokémon is not a lot.) This is because Phantasmal Flames Paldean Tauros (based on the Combat Breed, for the record) has an attack that does 40 damage for each Pokémon you have with “Tauros” in its name that has damage, and for just 1 Fighting Energy. That means both Paldean Tauros, including itself, and regular Tauros, are eligible, as well as theoretically any other variant on Tauros. Play it in Expanded, and you can also use Tauros GX from Sun & Moon, whose Mad Bull-GX attack would help a lot.
It’s a recurring thing in the TCG, by the way, to have Tauros deal more damage scaling up with damage placed on Tauros, to integrate in its signature “power from anger” trait.
As you can have up to 6 Tauros of some variation in play, its Raging Charge attack reaches up to 240 damage. Not that impressive of an amount, but for 1 Fighting Energy on a Basic Pokémon, this is an amount reachable on the second turn, with 200 on the first turn (as the Tauros you start with can’t have taken any damage by the end of your first turn…though Team Rocket’s Venture Bomb could help with that).
I chose Chaos Rising Tauros for the Target Together attack, which strikes the Bench for an average of 150 damage (50 damage for each Pokémon you have in play with “Tauros” in its name). If all goes right, you can even prevent the opponent from setting up by taking out their Pokémon on there before they can evolve.
With so few Pokémon, it opens up room for large amounts of Trainers. Precious Trolley is important but not essential for the big burst starts; Team Rocket’s Petrel is in there mainly to help get Precious Trolley out. Risky Ruins, however, is a must, allowing you to immediately deal damage to Tauros and instantly charge up Raging Charge, and can also be searched out through Petrel, or through Colress’s Tenacity.
Brave Bangle brings the attack power up to 270. Should they have entered the field with damage from Risky Ruins, the total accrued damage will be 290. I wonder if I should throw in Black Belt’s Training too, though my approach has been to keep throwing Tauros at the opponent until they go down, and with an Energy cost of just 1, I can keep doing so every turn as long as I have an Energy to attach each turn. It can two-hit any Pokémon ex, including Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, allowing me to keep up in the Prize race.
Because the Tauros will go down quickly, Night Stretcher and Tarragon are necessary to get both the Pokémon and Energy back in my hand. Only Night Stretcher can bring back fainted Kantonian Tauros, though Paldean Tauros is the main attacker, so it’s more likely I have to bring back Paldean Tauros because it’s more likely they’ll wind up in the discard pile.
I have not just Precious Trolley, but Poké Pad, Fighting Gong, Brock’s Scouting, Naveen, and Lillie’s Determination to help me get out as many Tauros as possible as soon as possible too.
The first match at 00:00, while it doesn’t have the ideal 200-damage first-turn blitz, does get me to 240 damage by the second turn, which allowed me to outpace the fast-moving, higher-damage Mega Abomasnow ex deck.
The second match at 03:46 was more drawn out and instead illustrates the deck’s capacity to handle more drawn out matches. This one was a rarely seen Magcargo ex (which I used towards the start of my Pokémon TCG Live coverage with “Snail Box,” seen here: youtu.be/PKynPoZ7tnA
With the new cards that have come out since, Magcargo ex can use Mega Evolution Gumshoos’s “Evidence Gathering” Ability to ensure an Energy is always at the top of your deck without the need for a Stadium card, though I don’t know how they would put an Energy card at the top of the opponent’s deck without Team Star Grunt, which has since rotated out.. They also use Surging Sparks Azumarill to do 230 damage for 1 Psychic Energy if they have a Tera Pokémon in play (which Magcargo ex is), in combination with Lillie’s Clefairy ex to fight Dragapult ex.
This deck was not the first one I made over the Chaos Rising season, but it was the first one to reach a satisfactory state, so it’s coming up first. (“Sundae School” was first constructed during the Perfect Order season as my representative Water-type deck.) This doesn’t cover any type in particular, though it does use Fighting Energy because Paldean Tauros, the one used in this deck, needs Fighting Energy.
That first deck will be showcased later.
POKÉMON (8)
4x Paldean Tauros (Phantasmal Flames)
4x Tauros (Chaos Rising)
TRAINERS (42)
1x Battle Cage
3x Boss’s Orders
3x Brave Bangle
3x Brock’s Scouting
4x Colress’s Tenacity
2x Fighting Gong
4x Lillie’s Determination
3x Naveen
2x Night Stretcher
4x Poké Pad
1x Precious Trolley
4x Risky Ruins
1x Special Red Card
2x Switch
2x Tarragon
3x Team Rocket’s Petrel
ENERGY (10)
10x Fighting Energy
As you can see, I only have Tauros in this deck. (If there was a Tauros ex, I’d have that there too. 8 Pokémon is not a lot.) This is because Phantasmal Flames Paldean Tauros (based on the Combat Breed, for the record) has an attack that does 40 damage for each Pokémon you have with “Tauros” in its name that has damage, and for just 1 Fighting Energy. That means both Paldean Tauros, including itself, and regular Tauros, are eligible, as well as theoretically any other variant on Tauros. Play it in Expanded, and you can also use Tauros GX from Sun & Moon, whose Mad Bull-GX attack would help a lot.
It’s a recurring thing in the TCG, by the way, to have Tauros deal more damage scaling up with damage placed on Tauros, to integrate in its signature “power from anger” trait.
As you can have up to 6 Tauros of some variation in play, its Raging Charge attack reaches up to 240 damage. Not that impressive of an amount, but for 1 Fighting Energy on a Basic Pokémon, this is an amount reachable on the second turn, with 200 on the first turn (as the Tauros you start with can’t have taken any damage by the end of your first turn…though Team Rocket’s Venture Bomb could help with that).
I chose Chaos Rising Tauros for the Target Together attack, which strikes the Bench for an average of 150 damage (50 damage for each Pokémon you have in play with “Tauros” in its name). If all goes right, you can even prevent the opponent from setting up by taking out their Pokémon on there before they can evolve.
With so few Pokémon, it opens up room for large amounts of Trainers. Precious Trolley is important but not essential for the big burst starts; Team Rocket’s Petrel is in there mainly to help get Precious Trolley out. Risky Ruins, however, is a must, allowing you to immediately deal damage to Tauros and instantly charge up Raging Charge, and can also be searched out through Petrel, or through Colress’s Tenacity.
Brave Bangle brings the attack power up to 270. Should they have entered the field with damage from Risky Ruins, the total accrued damage will be 290. I wonder if I should throw in Black Belt’s Training too, though my approach has been to keep throwing Tauros at the opponent until they go down, and with an Energy cost of just 1, I can keep doing so every turn as long as I have an Energy to attach each turn. It can two-hit any Pokémon ex, including Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, allowing me to keep up in the Prize race.
Because the Tauros will go down quickly, Night Stretcher and Tarragon are necessary to get both the Pokémon and Energy back in my hand. Only Night Stretcher can bring back fainted Kantonian Tauros, though Paldean Tauros is the main attacker, so it’s more likely I have to bring back Paldean Tauros because it’s more likely they’ll wind up in the discard pile.
I have not just Precious Trolley, but Poké Pad, Fighting Gong, Brock’s Scouting, Naveen, and Lillie’s Determination to help me get out as many Tauros as possible as soon as possible too.
The first match at 00:00, while it doesn’t have the ideal 200-damage first-turn blitz, does get me to 240 damage by the second turn, which allowed me to outpace the fast-moving, higher-damage Mega Abomasnow ex deck.
The second match at 03:46 was more drawn out and instead illustrates the deck’s capacity to handle more drawn out matches. This one was a rarely seen Magcargo ex (which I used towards the start of my Pokémon TCG Live coverage with “Snail Box,” seen here: youtu.be/PKynPoZ7tnA
With the new cards that have come out since, Magcargo ex can use Mega Evolution Gumshoos’s “Evidence Gathering” Ability to ensure an Energy is always at the top of your deck without the need for a Stadium card, though I don’t know how they would put an Energy card at the top of the opponent’s deck without Team Star Grunt, which has since rotated out.. They also use Surging Sparks Azumarill to do 230 damage for 1 Psychic Energy if they have a Tera Pokémon in play (which Magcargo ex is), in combination with Lillie’s Clefairy ex to fight Dragapult ex.
