Blissey ex

What Blissey ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 20 lists we counted, this deck runs 13 to 20 Pokémon, 26 to 38 Trainers and 9 to 14 Energy. Its attacks do not ask for any particular type of Energy.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « blissey-ex ». Every card named in that label turns up in the tables below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.

Look at the Energy: 9 to 14 out of 60, when half the 117 decks we track run 11 or fewer. This one carries more than most, and you feel it at the table — it wants to load up a big Pokémon and swing hard, even if that means drawing a spare Energy now and then.

It sets up fast. Blissey 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.

Look at the Trainers: 26 to 38 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 117 decks we track. Inside that, 9 to 18 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 12 to 21 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 74 of the 117 decks we track bring that many or more. Only one Stadium sits on the table at a time: the one you play sends the one already there to the discard pile.

What Tools and Stadiums do — the two Trainer families we skipped here — and why the Energy count says so much: how to read a deck list.

What the card in this deck's name actually does

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

Blissey ex is in all 20 lists, 3 copies of it. Its Ability is called Happy Switch, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may move a Basic Energy from 1 of your Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. »

How Blissey ex actually wins

Blissey ex attacks with Return for 180. It needs 3 Colorless Energy attached, and it has 300 HP. And the number is not everything the card says. There is one more line printed under the attack, and it is the one everybody skips: "You may draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand."

The cost of Return decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 3. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 3. Except you are not on your own. Chansey, which the list runs 4 of, has an attack called Lucky Attachment that attaches Energy from your hand on top of the one you already play. That attack takes your attack for the turn, so count it as a setup turn. That is how this deck gets itself charged.

There is another trick in this list, and the whole of it happens in one turn. Team Rocket's Petrel goes into your deck for a Trainer card and puts it in your hand. Precious Trolley is one, and it puts as many Basic Pokémon as you like onto your Bench in one go. A full Bench on turn one is what decides the game in a deck with lines to build. One rule to know: Precious Trolley is an ACE SPEC card. You are allowed just ONE ACE SPEC in your whole deck, so a second copy is never coming, and taking this one means giving up every other. One detail that matters: Team Rocket's Petrel is a Supporter, so that turn you play no other Supporter. Items all still go through.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Blissey ex back to the Bench you have to discard 4 Energy attached to it. Retreating does not cost you your turn, you can step back and still swing right after. What it costs you is the 4 Energy you spent 4 turns attaching, and you start that climb again from nothing. Pack a card that moves it for free, or send it up knowing it stays up.

Blissey ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when Blissey ex falls. They need 6 to win: 3 well-placed knockouts on that card beat you, where it would take 6 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
Close Blissey exStage 1	300	Return	180		Fighting ×2	4
Close ChanseyBasic	120	Boundless Power	80		Fighting ×2	2

The core: the 7 cards every list runs

These 7 cards appear in all 20 lists, without a single exception. That is 22 of the 60 slots. The other 38 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 22 slots break down: 15 Trainers, 7 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.

5 of those 7 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Chansey (3 to 4), Blissey ex (3 to 4) and Boss's Orders (2 to 4), plus 2 more. Add those spreads up and you get 9 copies the 20 lists do not agree on, inside the core itself.

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
3–4	Close Chansey	TWM 133	Pokémon	leaves
3–4	Close Blissey ex	TWM 134	Pokémon	leaves
4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
1–3	Close Night Stretcher	ASC 196	Trainer	leaves
1–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays

The 75 cards that change from list to list

75 cards fight over the 38 slots that are left: 5 above three lists in four, 51 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Switch at 85 %, Munkidori at 75 % and Team Rocket's Petrel at 75 %, plus 2 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Special Red Card, at 50 %: 10 of 20 players took it, 10 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex (5 lists out of 20) and Crustle (5 lists out of 20).

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
85 %17/20	Close Switch	1–4	MEG 130	Trainer
75 %15/20	Close Munkidori	2–4	TWM 95	Pokémon
75 %15/20	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	4	DRI 176	Trainer
75 %15/20	Close Precious Trolley	1	SSP 185	Trainer
75 %15/20	Darkness Energy	2–4	MEE 7	Energy
65 %13/20	Close Meowth ex	1–2	POR 62	Pokémon
60 %12/20	Close Air Balloon	1	ASC 181	Trainer
60 %12/20	Grass Energy	4–10	MEE 1	Energy
50 %10/20	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
45 %9/20	Close Team Rocket's Factory	2	DRI 173	Trainer
40 %8/20	Close Joltik	2	SCR 50	Pokémon
40 %8/20	Close Crispin	2–3	SCR 133	Trainer
40 %8/20	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
40 %8/20	Lightning Energy	4	MEE 4	Energy
40 %8/20	Psychic Energy	1–9	MEE 5	Energy
35 %7/20	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
35 %7/20	Close Galvantula ex	1	SCR 51	Pokémon
35 %7/20	Close Pokégear 3.0	3–4	SVI 186	Trainer
35 %7/20	Close Area Zero Underdepths	2–3	SCR 131	Trainer
35 %7/20	Close Jumbo Ice Cream	1–2	PFL 91	Trainer
35 %7/20	Close Energy Search	1	POR 72	Trainer
35 %7/20	Fighting Energy	1–5	MEE 6	Energy
30 %6/20	Close Hilda	2	WHT 84	Trainer
30 %6/20	Close Ignition Energy	4	WHT 86	Energy
25 %5/20	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1–2	TWM 112	Pokémon
25 %5/20	Close Crustle	1–2	DRI 12	Pokémon
25 %5/20	Close Dwebble	1–2	DRI 11	Pokémon
25 %5/20	Close Glass Trumpet	1–3	SCR 135	Trainer
25 %5/20	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	1–2	TEF 144	Trainer
25 %5/20	Close Prism Tower	2	CRI 80	Trainer
20 %4/20	Close Teal Mask Ogerpon ex	3	TWM 25	Pokémon
20 %4/20	Close Latias ex	1	SSP 76	Pokémon
20 %4/20	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1–2	JTG 56	Pokémon
20 %4/20	Close Heavy Baton	2	TEF 151	Trainer
15 %3/20	Close Pikachu ex	2	SSP 57	Pokémon
15 %3/20	Close Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
15 %3/20	Close Galvantula	1	SFA 2	Pokémon
15 %3/20	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
15 %3/20	Close Light Ball	2	ASC 191	Trainer
15 %3/20	Close Bianca's Devotion	1	TEF 142	Trainer
15 %3/20	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
15 %3/20	Metal Energy	3	MEE 8	Energy
10 %2/20	Close Chewtle	2	SCR 43	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Close Drednaw	2	SCR 44	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Close Chien-Pao	1	SSP 56	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Close Mega Absol ex	1	MEG 86	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Close Wo-Chien	1	SSP 15	Pokémon
10 %2/20	Close Bug Catching Set	2	TWM 143	Trainer
10 %2/20	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
10 %2/20	Close Mist Energy	2–3	TEF 161	Energy
5 %1/20	Close Cofagrigus	3	WHT 40	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Yamask	3	SSP 82	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna	2	PRE 54	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Chi-Yu	2	PBL 59	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Electrike	1	MEG 49	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Enamorus	1	TWM 93	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Manectric	1	PBL 24	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Mega Manectric ex	1	MEG 50	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Pecharunt ex	1	SFA 39	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Smoochum	1	SSP 75	Pokémon
5 %1/20	Close Wondrous Patch	4	PFL 94	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	3	DRI 179	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Brock's Scouting	2	JTG 146	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Energy Retrieval	2	SVI 171	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Fighting Gong	2	MEG 116	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Morty's Conviction	2	TEF 155	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Nighttime Mine	2	ASC 197	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Risky Ruins	2	MEG 127	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Tera Orb	2	SSP 189	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Xerosic's Machinations	2	SFA 64	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Counter Gain	1	SSP 169	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Surfer	1	SSP 187	Trainer
5 %1/20	Close Team Rocket's Transceiver	1	DRI 178	Trainer

The most common Blissey ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 22 slots come from the core, the cards all 20 lists run. The remaining 38 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 guardrails a judge would hold you to: never more than four copies of a card, and one ACE SPEC. Behind the core it took 18 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 16 Pokémon, 31 Trainers and 13 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 20 lists we counted are all from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament. Nobody publishes the lists of the players who lost. So what you have in front of you is what the players finishing near the top bring most often.

The text under the table is the one the game expects: copy it, paste it into the deck manager, and the list builds itself.

There is no price total on this page. Our readings are in euros, taken on the European market, and that is not the currency you pay in. A figure you would have to convert in your head is worse than no figure at all. The French and German pages carry the total.

Why we only read lists from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament, and what that changes about every percentage on this page: how to read a deck list.

Pokémon: 16
4 Chansey TWM 133
3 Blissey ex TWM 134
4 Munkidori TWM 95
1 Meowth ex POR 62
2 Joltik SCR 50
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
1 Galvantula ex SCR 51

Trainer: 31
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
2 Poké Pad POR 81
1 Switch MEG 130
4 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176
1 Precious Trolley SSP 185
1 Air Balloon ASC 181
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
2 Team Rocket's Factory DRI 173
3 Crispin SCR 133
2 Judge POR 76
1 Jumbo Ice Cream PFL 91

Energy: 13
3 Darkness Energy MEE 7
4 Grass Energy MEE 1
4 Lightning Energy MEE 4
2 Psychic Energy MEE 5

Total Cards: 60

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

You need 82 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 7 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

All 20 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 15 took Precious Trolley, 3 took Hero's Cape and 2 took Unfair Stamp. 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 Precious Trolley and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 3 of the 7 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Chansey, Blissey ex and Night Stretcher. The core table marks every one of them. In copies, that is 9 of the 22 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Blissey ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Fighting, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 14 of the 117 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Cynthia's Garchomp ex, plus 11 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

This table counts one thing, Weakness, and that comes to 14 decks out of the 117 we track. The other 103 do not attack into yours, and this table says nothing about them. You will still run into them.

Going the other way, none of the 117 decks we track have an attacker Weak to your types. So you are not going to win trades on Weakness — you will have to win them on raw damage.