Dragapult ex / Froslass deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Dragapult ex / Froslass looks like when you open the box

Across the 21 lists we counted, this deck runs 20 to 23 Pokémon, 28 to 31 Trainers and 9 to 10 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Psychic, Fire and Water.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « dragapult-froslass ». 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 10 out of 60, exactly the median of the 97 decks we track. It draws neither too much nor too little, so this is not where its games are won or lost.

It takes a while to set up. Dragapult ex is a Stage 2 Pokémon: you put down the baby, you evolve it, and then you evolve it again. Three cards stacked before anything attacks. That is what the hardest-hitting decks cost you, and it is also where they crack — a fast opponent can bury you before the line is standing.

Look at the Trainers: 28 to 31 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 9 to 12 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 15 to 18 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.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Dragapult ex and Froslass give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Dragapult ex is in all 21 lists, 2 copies of it.

Froslass is in all 21 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Freezing Shroud, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « During Pokémon Checkup, put 1 damage counter on each Pokémon that has an Ability (both yours and your opponent's), except any Froslass. »

How Dragapult ex / Froslass actually wins

Dragapult ex attacks with Phantom Dive for 200. It needs 2 Energy, 1 Fire and 1 Psychic attached, and it has 320 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: "Put 6 damage counters on your opponent's Benched Pokémon in any way you like."

The cost of Phantom Dive decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 2. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 2. We have not found anything in this list that attaches Energy faster than that, so plan on holding out for a turn 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.

Good news on mobility: pulling Dragapult ex back to the Bench costs you 1 Energy attached to it, and that is all. Retreating does not cost you your turn, so you step back and swing anyway. That matters enormously the day your opponent lands something nasty on it.

Dragapult ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when Dragapult 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 Dragapult exStage 2	320	Phantom Dive	200	Fire + Psychic	none	1
Close DrakloakStage 1	90	Dragon Headbutt	70	Fire + Psychic	none	1
Close FroslassStage 1	90	Frost Smash	60	Water + Colorless	Metal ×2	1
Close MunkidoriBasic	110	Mind Bend	60	Psychic + Colorless	Darkness ×2	1

The core: the 17 cards every list runs

These 17 cards appear in all 21 lists, without a single exception. That is 49 of the 60 slots. The other 11 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 49 slots break down: 22 Trainers, 18 Pokémon, 9 Energy. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 49 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.

17 of those 17 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Drakloak (3 to 4), Dreepy (3 to 4) and Munkidori (2 to 3), plus 14 more. Add those spreads up and you get 20 copies the 21 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 Drakloak	TWM 129	Pokémon	leaves
3–4	Close Dreepy	TWM 128	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Munkidori	TWM 95	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Dragapult ex	TWM 130	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Froslass	TWM 53	Pokémon	leaves
2–3	Close Snorunt	ASC 46	Pokémon	stays
1–2	Close Budew	ASC 16	Pokémon	leaves
2–4	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	TEF 144	Trainer	leaves
3–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
3–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer	stays
2–3	Close Crispin	SCR 133	Trainer	leaves
2–3	Close Night Stretcher	ASC 196	Trainer	leaves
2–3	Darkness Energy	MEE 7	Energy	stays
3–4	Fire Energy	MEE 2	Energy	stays
3–4	Psychic Energy	MEE 5	Energy	stays

The 37 cards that change from list to list

37 cards fight over the 11 slots that are left: 3 above three lists in four, 25 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Meowth ex at 90 %, Special Red Card at 76 % and Unfair Stamp at 76 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Team Rocket's Watchtower, at 48 %: 10 of 21 players took it, 11 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 2 copies. Right at the bottom of the table, Jamming Tower (5 lists out of 21) and Team Rocket's Petrel (5 lists out of 21).

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
90 %19/21	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
76 %16/21	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
76 %16/21	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
62 %13/21	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
62 %13/21	Close Yveltal	1	MEG 88	Pokémon
57 %12/21	Close Area Zero Underdepths	1–2	SCR 131	Trainer
48 %10/21	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–2	DRI 180	Trainer
43 %9/21	Close Rare Candy	1–2	MEG 125	Trainer
38 %8/21	Close Rosa's Encouragement	1	POR 84	Trainer
33 %7/21	Close Mega Froslass ex	1	ASC 47	Pokémon
29 %6/21	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
29 %6/21	Close Dawn	1	PFL 87	Trainer
24 %5/21	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
24 %5/21	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–3	DRI 176	Trainer
24 %5/21	Water Energy	1	MEE 3	Energy
19 %4/21	Close Risky Ruins	1–2	MEG 127	Trainer
14 %3/21	Close Brock's Scouting	2	JTG 146	Trainer
14 %3/21	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Maractus	1	JTG 8	Pokémon
10 %2/21	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
10 %2/21	Close Judge	1	POR 76	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Bubbly Water Energy	1	CRI 84	Energy
10 %2/21	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
5 %1/21	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Pokégear 3.0	2	SVI 186	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	2	DRI 179	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Hilda	1	WHT 84	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Hyper Aroma	1	TWM 152	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Pokémon Catcher	1	POR 82	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Scoop Up Cyclone	1	TWM 162	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer

What Dragapult ex / Froslass costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 54 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 17 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

All 21 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 16 took Unfair Stamp, 2 took Legacy Energy and 1 took Hero's Cape. 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 Unfair Stamp and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 9 of the 17 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Drakloak, Dreepy, Munkidori and Dragapult ex, plus 5 more. The core table marks every one of them. In copies, that is 24 of the 49 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Dragapult ex / Froslass struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Metal and Darkness, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 22 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking (Metagross) and N's Zoroark ex, plus 19 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 22 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 75 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 Psychic, Fire and Water, and 15 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Mega Lucario ex and Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Dragapult ex / Froslass deck list?

There isn't one. Across 21 tournament lists harvested between 16 August 2026 and 5 September 2026, 17 cards turn up in every single one, 49 slots out of 60. The remaining 11 change from player to player, with 37 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

21 lists, played across 21 different tournaments, harvested between 16 August 2026 and 5 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 21 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Dragapult ex / Froslass?

With the whole core: 17 cards, 49 slots. Inside it, buy the 22 Trainer slots and the 9 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 18 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Meowth ex at 90 % and Special Red Card at 76 %.

What beats Dragapult ex / Froslass?

Its attackers are Weak to Metal and Darkness, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 22 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking, N's Zoroark ex and Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex / Froslass, among others.

Will Dragapult ex / Froslass survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 9 core cards out of 17 carry the letter H, starting with Drakloak, Dreepy, Munkidori and Dragapult ex, plus 5 more.

Are a lot of people playing Dragapult ex / Froslass?

We have read 21 lists of it, which puts it 77th of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 22 entries for it, 0.05 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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