“ex Starter Decks” Revealed Featuring Greninja ex, Decidueye ex, Clefable ex, and More!

[Water Pokémon Master]

As we posted back in January, more “ex Starter Decks” will release on July 7th featuring Decidueye ex, Victini ex, Greninja ex, Miraidon ex, Clefable ex, Koraidon ex, Houndoom ex, or Melmetal ex. They will cost 550 yen each.
The decks were just revealed during the livestream for Japan’s Champions League tournament in Niigata.

A “Random ex Starter Deck” will also release containing one of ten random decks. The deck will either be one of the eight above or two “secret” decks you can only get from this package. The two secret decks haven’t been revealed yet.

Thanks goes to Toine L., Bangiras, and JustInBasil for the card...

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[Platinum Espresso]

Very curious what Clefable has. LOR Clefairy can flood energy onto a whole set prior to evolving, so if it's any good that fairly consistent in-built support will make it worth keeping an eye on.

 

[Alex Leblanc]

Very curious what Clefable has. LOR Clefairy can flood energy onto a whole set prior to evolving, so if it's any good that fairly consistent in-built support will make it worth keeping an eye on.

It seems solid. Ability says pokemon with energy have no retreat, and the attack effect is moving from any of your pokemon to your other pokemon however you want

 

[Platinum Espresso]

It seems solid. Ability says pokemon with energy have no retreat, and the attack effect is moving from any of your pokemon to your other pokemon however you want

That synergizes terrifyingly with LOR Clefairy and Zacian V CEL. Bit more boss vulnerable than Gardevoir though, as you place energy at the end of the turn rather than during, but the extra deck space and lack of self damage will at least make it a budget rogue alternative. Plus, you can swing with Clefairy instead for smaller targets like lost box.

 

[Platinum Espresso]

A 4 energy cost scaling attack on a stage 1 metal type 2 prizer? Dialga VStar lets you skip the opponent's turn, why would you use Melmetal over it?

 

[Chimecho3000]

I'm sad there isn't a Colorless type ex.

 

[Mimikeon]

I'm sad there isn't a Colorless type ex.

There are still two unrevealed decks.

 

[steffenka]

There are still two unrevealed decks.

I wonder if that'll be a Dragon and a Colorless, since it fits with the last two types

 

[bbb888]

Decidueye's translation is incomplete. Its Ability can also switch Decidueye with a Benched mon if it is Active. In other words, it can move freely between Bench and Active Spot.

 

[machamps_fifth_hand]

The secret decks finna be secret rare decks I bet

 

[creg22]

Decidueye and Greninja seem like the best ones here, though all of them are super bland, decidueye at least has decent synergy with the H decidueye.

 

[creg22]

A 4 energy cost scaling attack on a stage 1 metal type 2 prizer? Dialga VStar lets you skip the opponent's turn, why would you use Melmetal over it?

These are pre built decks for beginners, they aren't meant to be viable

 

[N's Rhyperior]

Clefable ex - this seems interesting since we have Clefairy that could accelerate up to 4 energy at once and free retreat on an ex. IIRC, no decks rn that could take adv of locking your opponent in the active spot. Seems a thing to keep an eye on. Altho the Clefairy still has bad attack tho, 20x is low for the meta rn. We have things like Gardevoir who has skyrocketed HP of 310, and Clefairy takes 16 energy to KO a Gardevoir, in which a Drifloon can do a better job than that. 2/4-5
Decidueye ex - 2/2/3 why? There's a reason why BKT Zoroark's ability will never be reprinted, and this is one of them.
Melmetal ex - why tho? 2/2-3
Greninja ex - I still need a good Frogadier, this Greninja is nuts for 2 energy, hitting Vs and basic ex? I know Irida is a thing but, would it be nice to rely on that Supporter card to speed up the evolution? 2/2/3-4
Victini ex- Fire still sucks and they still are. 220 flat is just bland nowadays. 3
Houndoom ex - wth? 3/3
Miraidon ex/ Koraidon ex - idk man, seems kinda mid. 3/3

 

[Yaginku]

These are obviously ex-es "for beginners" (aka "give us money for bad cards"), but it feels very nostalgic to see cards that don't give you every resource for free and have reasonable damage numbers. This is how the SV era should have looked like.

 

[Monarch]

Creatures after forgetting the Primarina line

 

[Raptor877]

Decidueye's translation is incomplete. Its Ability can also switch Decidueye with a Benched mon if it is Active. In other words, it can move freely between Bench and Active Spot.

Correct, this is true. They even specify it on their youtube channel that it can move to the active spot and then switch back to the bench when it needs to retreat using this ability.

 

[Bewear The TERRIBLE]

Clefable the astronaut! ??‍?

 

[Bewear The TERRIBLE]

Decidueye's translation is incomplete. Its Ability can also switch Decidueye with a Benched mon if it is Active. In other words, it can move freely between Bench and Active Spot.

That's so cool! ??

 

[Bewear The TERRIBLE]

Creatures after forgetting the Primarina line
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OMG I hate that there isn't a V for Primarina and only 1 GX for it. They literally need to start giving it some love or it'll literally shriek like a siren and start eating sailors! One of the best starter designs imo. ?‍?

 

[Da idiot]

Decidueye and Greninja seem like the best ones here, though all of them are super bland, decidueye at least has decent synergy with the H decidueye.

That’s true. I hadn’t considered that. Sounds like it would make a really cool and fun deck with depth and skill, even though it probably wont be competitive succesful