Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This was a deck I used for the Perfect Order era, but with Water support cards like Great Haul Net and Bubbly Energy, and the game having daily missions asking you to use Water Pokémon or attach Water Energy due to Chaos Rising featuring Mega Greninja ex, I continued using this deck through the Chaos Rising season. It is a pretty nontraditional deck, even for my standards, in that it grows in power exponentially rather than linearly, but requires a lot of dedicated setup and maybe some luck with coin flips.
POKÉMON (20)
4x N’s Vanillite (Ascended Heroes)
2x N’s Vanillish (Ascended Heroes)
4x N’s Vanilluxe (Ascended Heroes)
4x Snom (Temporal Forces)
3x Frosmoth (Mega Evolution)
1x Fezandipiti ex (Shrouded Fable OR Ascended Heroes)
1x Shaymin (Destined Rivals)
1x Patrat (Chaos Rising)
TRAINERS (32)
2x Boss’s Orders
3x Buddy-Buddy Poffin
2x Counter Gain
2x Dawn
1x Enhanced Hammer
2x Great Haul Net
2x Hilda
4x Lillie’s Determination
1x Night Stretcher
2x N’s PP Up
3x Poké Pad
1x Precious Trolley
3x Rare Candy
1x Rosa’s Encouragement
3x Surfing Beach
ENERGY (8)
2x Bubbly W Energy
6x Water Energy
This is a deck you won’t see at the Indianapolis Regionals…or any regionals for that matter, as it still feels incomplete and far too slow. But when it works, like in this match, it works! You see, most decks scale upwards linarly, or in the case of Raging Bolt ex or Slowking, begin at a high amount of power and remain there for the rest of the game. This deck starts out incredibly weak but scales exponentially; if the opponent allows it to stick around for too long, it will eventually eat large chunks out of their whole board.
There are two main attackers this time, and both must appear in quantity for the deck to work to its fullest. You begin with Frosmoth, who has no Abilities but a single attack, Chilling Wings, which deals 20 damage to all of the opponent’s Pokémon, then puts their Active Pokémon to Sleep. This is to start the way for N’s Vanilluxe to take over later (I recommend using Chilling Wings at least twice, if possible), whose first attack, Snow Coating, doubles the number of damage counters on all of the opponent’s Pokémon. This will build up turn after turn until it reaches amounts able to knock out non-ex Pokémon, then Pokémon ex, then Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, and by then, you’ve probably won.
An important distinction here is damage versus damage counters. Frosmoth deals damage, so it can get blocked by Shaymin’s “Flower Curtain” or the Bench effects of Tera Pokémon ex. N’s Vanilluxe drops damage counters, so it can get blocked by Battle Cage, Mist Energy, Rocky F Energy (hence the Enhanced Hammer), the effects of Team Rocket’s Articuno’s “Repelling Veil,” or the effects of Empoleon ex’s “Emperor’s Stance.” None of these effects block the other, so by starting damage onto a Tera Pokémon ex in the Active Spot with Chilling Wings, for instance, you lay the groundwork for a knockout some turns later. In addition, Chilling Wings is affected by Weakness, as you can see here, but Snow Coating does not.
Because this deck remains at the full 6 Prizes for far longer than most other decks, it can make good use of not just Lillie’s Determination to shuffle your hand back and draw 8 cards, but Counter Gain to reduce the costs of N’s Vanilluxe’s attacks by 1 Colorless (doesn’t work with Frosmoth because it doesn’t use Colorless Energy in its attack cost) and Rosa’s Encouragement to immediately power up a new N’s Vanilluxe. And because of this deck’s emphasis on drawing cards and searching for Pokémon, it isn’t hard to always have a new N’s Vanilluxe ready. Getting Fezandipiti ex out early is important to go through your deck fast enough to avoid losing before you can accumulate enough damage.
One major hindrance to this deck is removal of damage counters. Most healing effects can be safely ignored because they only work on themselves, but Munkidori and its “Adrena-Brain” can work on any of their Pokémon. In addition to using Boss’s Orders to draw it out and knocking it out with N’s Vanilluxe’s Blizzard attack, I put Patrat from Chaos Rising in there because its Ability, “Watchful Eyes,” prevents movement of damage counters from one Pokémon to another, locking on “Adrena-Brain.” Because Battle Cage is so problematic for this deck’s strategy, and you need to switch out Frosmoth for N’s Vanilluxe, I went with Surfing Beach, bumping off their Battle Cage. Boss’s Orders also works well in pulling a Tera Pokémon ex into the Active Spot, where it can take damage from Chilling Wings and allow N’s Vanilluxe to place damage counters on it afterward.
This was a deck I used for the Perfect Order era, but with Water support cards like Great Haul Net and Bubbly Energy, and the game having daily missions asking you to use Water Pokémon or attach Water Energy due to Chaos Rising featuring Mega Greninja ex, I continued using this deck through the Chaos Rising season. It is a pretty nontraditional deck, even for my standards, in that it grows in power exponentially rather than linearly, but requires a lot of dedicated setup and maybe some luck with coin flips.
POKÉMON (20)
4x N’s Vanillite (Ascended Heroes)
2x N’s Vanillish (Ascended Heroes)
4x N’s Vanilluxe (Ascended Heroes)
4x Snom (Temporal Forces)
3x Frosmoth (Mega Evolution)
1x Fezandipiti ex (Shrouded Fable OR Ascended Heroes)
1x Shaymin (Destined Rivals)
1x Patrat (Chaos Rising)
TRAINERS (32)
2x Boss’s Orders
3x Buddy-Buddy Poffin
2x Counter Gain
2x Dawn
1x Enhanced Hammer
2x Great Haul Net
2x Hilda
4x Lillie’s Determination
1x Night Stretcher
2x N’s PP Up
3x Poké Pad
1x Precious Trolley
3x Rare Candy
1x Rosa’s Encouragement
3x Surfing Beach
ENERGY (8)
2x Bubbly W Energy
6x Water Energy
This is a deck you won’t see at the Indianapolis Regionals…or any regionals for that matter, as it still feels incomplete and far too slow. But when it works, like in this match, it works! You see, most decks scale upwards linarly, or in the case of Raging Bolt ex or Slowking, begin at a high amount of power and remain there for the rest of the game. This deck starts out incredibly weak but scales exponentially; if the opponent allows it to stick around for too long, it will eventually eat large chunks out of their whole board.
There are two main attackers this time, and both must appear in quantity for the deck to work to its fullest. You begin with Frosmoth, who has no Abilities but a single attack, Chilling Wings, which deals 20 damage to all of the opponent’s Pokémon, then puts their Active Pokémon to Sleep. This is to start the way for N’s Vanilluxe to take over later (I recommend using Chilling Wings at least twice, if possible), whose first attack, Snow Coating, doubles the number of damage counters on all of the opponent’s Pokémon. This will build up turn after turn until it reaches amounts able to knock out non-ex Pokémon, then Pokémon ex, then Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, and by then, you’ve probably won.
An important distinction here is damage versus damage counters. Frosmoth deals damage, so it can get blocked by Shaymin’s “Flower Curtain” or the Bench effects of Tera Pokémon ex. N’s Vanilluxe drops damage counters, so it can get blocked by Battle Cage, Mist Energy, Rocky F Energy (hence the Enhanced Hammer), the effects of Team Rocket’s Articuno’s “Repelling Veil,” or the effects of Empoleon ex’s “Emperor’s Stance.” None of these effects block the other, so by starting damage onto a Tera Pokémon ex in the Active Spot with Chilling Wings, for instance, you lay the groundwork for a knockout some turns later. In addition, Chilling Wings is affected by Weakness, as you can see here, but Snow Coating does not.
Because this deck remains at the full 6 Prizes for far longer than most other decks, it can make good use of not just Lillie’s Determination to shuffle your hand back and draw 8 cards, but Counter Gain to reduce the costs of N’s Vanilluxe’s attacks by 1 Colorless (doesn’t work with Frosmoth because it doesn’t use Colorless Energy in its attack cost) and Rosa’s Encouragement to immediately power up a new N’s Vanilluxe. And because of this deck’s emphasis on drawing cards and searching for Pokémon, it isn’t hard to always have a new N’s Vanilluxe ready. Getting Fezandipiti ex out early is important to go through your deck fast enough to avoid losing before you can accumulate enough damage.
One major hindrance to this deck is removal of damage counters. Most healing effects can be safely ignored because they only work on themselves, but Munkidori and its “Adrena-Brain” can work on any of their Pokémon. In addition to using Boss’s Orders to draw it out and knocking it out with N’s Vanilluxe’s Blizzard attack, I put Patrat from Chaos Rising in there because its Ability, “Watchful Eyes,” prevents movement of damage counters from one Pokémon to another, locking on “Adrena-Brain.” Because Battle Cage is so problematic for this deck’s strategy, and you need to switch out Frosmoth for N’s Vanilluxe, I went with Surfing Beach, bumping off their Battle Cage. Boss’s Orders also works well in pulling a Tera Pokémon ex into the Active Spot, where it can take damage from Chilling Wings and allow N’s Vanilluxe to place damage counters on it afterward.
