Ceruledge ex deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Ceruledge ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 33 lists we counted, this deck runs 12 to 17 Pokémon, 24 to 29 Trainers and 18 to 22 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Fighting, Fire, Psychic and Metal.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « ceruledge-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: 18 to 22 out of 60, when half the 97 decks we track run 10 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. Ceruledge 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: 24 to 29 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 7 to 11 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 12 to 19 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 3 Stadiums, and 91 of the 97 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.

How Ceruledge ex actually wins

Ceruledge ex attacks with Raging Amethyst for 280. It needs 3 Energy, 1 Fire, 1 Psychic and 1 Metal attached, and it has 270 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: "Discard all Energy from this Pokémon."

The cost of Raging Amethyst 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. We have not found anything in this list that attaches Energy faster than that, so plan on holding out for 2 turns before you swing. Those turns still get played: you fill your Bench, you build your lines, and you keep something back to rebuild with when your attacker falls.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Ceruledge ex back to the Bench you have to discard 2 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 2 Energy you spent 2 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.

Ceruledge ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when Ceruledge 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 Ceruledge exStage 1	270	Raging Amethyst	280	Fire + Psychic + Metal	Water ×2	2
Close SolrockBasic	110	Cosmic Beam	70	Fighting	Grass ×2	1
Close LunatoneBasic	110	Power Gem	50	Fighting + Fighting	Grass ×2	1

The core: the 7 cards every list runs

These 7 cards appear in all 33 lists, without a single exception. That is 35 of the 60 slots. The other 25 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 35 slots break down: 8 Trainers, 7 Pokémon, 20 Energy. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 35 of the 60 slots are the same for everybody, when half the 97 decks we track fix 34 or fewer. Fewer choices left to you than usual, and fewer ways to get them wrong.

6 of those 7 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Ceruledge ex (2 to 3), Solrock (2 to 3) and Fighting Gong (3 to 4), plus 3 more. Add those spreads up and you get 14 copies the 33 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
2–3	Close Ceruledge ex	SSP 36	Pokémon	leaves
2	Close Lunatone	MEG 74	Pokémon	stays
2–3	Close Solrock	MEG 75	Pokémon	stays
3–4	Close Fighting Gong	MEG 116	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
10–14	Fighting Energy	MEE 6	Energy	stays
3–8	Fire Energy	MEE 2	Energy	stays

The 44 cards that change from list to list

44 cards fight over the 25 slots that are left: 6 above three lists in four, 27 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Carmine at 97 %, Night Stretcher at 97 % and Poké Pad at 94 %, plus 3 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Fezandipiti ex, at 55 %: 18 of 33 players took it, 15 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Special Red Card (8 lists out of 33) and Charcadet (5 lists out of 33).

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
97 %32/33	Close Carmine	2–4	TWM 145	Trainer
97 %32/33	Close Night Stretcher	2–4	ASC 196	Trainer
94 %31/33	Close Poké Pad	2–4	POR 81	Trainer
94 %31/33	Close Boss's Orders	1–4	MEG 114	Trainer
88 %29/33	Close Charcadet	2–4	SSP 32	Pokémon
85 %28/33	Close Drilbur	1–2	TEF 85	Pokémon
70 %23/33	Close Prism Tower	1–2	CRI 80	Trainer
61 %20/33	Close Explorer's Guidance	1–4	TEF 147	Trainer
55 %18/33	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
45 %15/33	Close Brilliant Blender	1	SSP 164	Trainer
45 %15/33	Close Mist Energy	2–4	TEF 161	Energy
39 %13/33	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
39 %13/33	Close Lillie's Determination	2–4	MEG 119	Trainer
39 %13/33	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
36 %12/33	Close Pokémon Catcher	3–4	POR 82	Trainer
36 %12/33	Close Briar	1	SCR 132	Trainer
27 %9/33	Close Air Balloon	1	ASC 181	Trainer
24 %8/33	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
15 %5/33	Close Charcadet	1–2	SSP 33	Pokémon
15 %5/33	Close Charcadet	1–4	PFL 19	Pokémon
15 %5/33	Close Chi-Yu	1	MEG 31	Pokémon
12 %4/33	Close Armarouge	1	PBL 12	Pokémon
12 %4/33	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
9 %3/33	Close Charcadet	3–4	PBL 11	Pokémon
9 %3/33	Close Buneary	1	PFL 83	Pokémon
9 %3/33	Close Mega Lopunny ex	1	PFL 84	Pokémon
9 %3/33	Close Naveen	2	POR 79	Trainer
9 %3/33	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
9 %3/33	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
6 %2/33	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
6 %2/33	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2–3	TEF 144	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Dudunsparce	2	TEF 129	Pokémon
3 %1/33	Close Dunsparce	2	JTG 120	Pokémon
3 %1/33	Close Ceruledge	1	SSP 35	Pokémon
3 %1/33	Close Pokégear 3.0	4	SVI 186	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Area Zero Underdepths	2	SCR 131	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Blowtorch	1	PFL 86	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Crispin	1	SCR 133	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Lucian	1	TWM 157	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
3 %1/33	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer

The most common Ceruledge ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 35 slots come from the core, the cards all 33 lists run. The remaining 25 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 10 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 13 Pokémon, 27 Trainers and 20 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 33 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. The readings we have are Cardmarket's, in euros, and the shop link further down sends you to TCGplayer, which quotes in dollars. Putting a euro figure next to a dollar shop would be one currency too many. 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: 13
3 Ceruledge ex SSP 36
2 Lunatone MEG 74
2 Solrock MEG 75
4 Charcadet SSP 32
1 Drilbur TEF 85
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142

Trainer: 27
4 Fighting Gong MEG 116
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
4 Carmine TWM 145
3 Night Stretcher ASC 196
3 Poké Pad POR 81
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
2 Prism Tower CRI 80
4 Explorer's Guidance TEF 147
1 Brilliant Blender SSP 164

Energy: 20
14 Fighting Energy MEE 6
6 Fire Energy MEE 2

Total Cards: 60

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

You need 51 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 33 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 15 took Brilliant Blender, 13 took Legacy Energy and 3 took Unfair Stamp. The flex table shows you all 5. 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 Brilliant Blender and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 7 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Ceruledge ex. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 3 of the 35 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Ceruledge ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Water and Grass, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 39 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Festival Lead (Seaking), Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass and Raging Bolt ex (Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex), plus 36 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 39 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 58 do not attack into yours, and this table says nothing about them. You will still run into them.

Going the other way, your attackers are Fighting, Fire, Psychic and Metal, and 55 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex, Mega Excadrill ex and Festival Lead, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Ceruledge ex deck list?

There isn't one, so we built one for you: all 60 cards are written out further up this page. Across 33 tournament lists harvested between 11 August 2026 and 3 September 2026, 7 cards turn up in every single one, 35 slots out of 60. The remaining 25 change from player to player, with 44 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

How many lists is this counted on, and where do they come from?

33 lists, played across 31 different tournaments, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 3 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 33 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Ceruledge ex?

With the whole core: 7 cards, 35 slots. Inside it, buy the 8 Trainer slots and the 20 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 7 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Carmine at 97 % and Night Stretcher at 97 %.

What beats Ceruledge ex?

Its attackers are Weak to Water and Grass, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 39 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Festival Lead, Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass, Raging Bolt ex and Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex, among others.

Will Ceruledge ex survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 1 core cards out of 7 carry the letter H, starting with Ceruledge ex.

Are a lot of people playing Ceruledge ex?

We have read 33 lists of it, which puts it 39th of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 251 entries for it, 0.62 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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