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

What Froslass / Munkidori looks like when you open the box

Across the 30 lists we counted, this deck runs 16 to 21 Pokémon, 30 to 37 Trainers and 7 to 11 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Water and Psychic.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « froslass-munkidori ». 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: 7 to 11 out of 60, when half the 97 decks we track run 10 or more. This one is lean. It lives on cheap attacks and leans on Trainers to find the right Energy at the right moment rather than stockpiling it.

It sets up fast. Froslass 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: 30 to 37 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 8 to 14 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 13 to 23 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

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

Froslass is in all 30 lists, 3 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. »

Munkidori is in all 30 lists, 4 copies of it. Its Ability is called Adrena-Brain, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, if this Pokémon has any {D} Energy attached, you may move up to 3 damage counters from 1 of your Pokémon to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. »

How Froslass / Munkidori actually wins

Froslass attacks with Frost Smash for 60. It needs 2 Energy, 1 Water and 1 Colorless attached, and it has 90 HP.

The cost of Frost Smash 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 Froslass 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.

Not one ex Pokémon in the core, and only 21 of the 97 decks we track are in that position. It is a hidden advantage: every knockout your opponent takes is worth a single Prize, so they need 6, where 3 would do against a deck stuffed with ex cards.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Close FroslassStage 1	90	Frost Smash	60	Water + Colorless	Metal ×2	1
Close MunkidoriBasic	110	Mind Bend	60	Psychic + Colorless	Darkness ×2	1
Close SnoruntBasic	70	Chilly	10	Water	Metal ×2	1

The core: the 9 cards every list runs

These 9 cards appear in all 30 lists, without a single exception. That is 33 of the 60 slots. The other 27 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 33 slots break down: 18 Trainers, 11 Pokémon, 4 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.

9 of those 9 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Munkidori (3 to 4), Snorunt (3 to 4) and Froslass (3 to 4), plus 6 more. Add those spreads up and you get 18 copies the 30 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 Munkidori	TWM 95	Pokémon	leaves
3–4	Close Snorunt	ASC 46	Pokémon	stays
3–4	Close Froslass	TWM 53	Pokémon	leaves
1–4	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	TEF 144	Trainer	leaves
3–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer	stays
1–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
2–4	Close Night Stretcher	ASC 196	Trainer	leaves
2–6	Darkness Energy	MEE 7	Energy	stays

The 65 cards that change from list to list

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

The most agreed on first: Budew at 93 %, Mega Froslass ex at 90 % and Air Balloon at 90 %, plus 3 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Crispin, at 53 %: 16 of 30 players took it, 14 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Dark Bell (7 lists out of 30) and Nighttime Mine (7 lists out of 30).

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
93 %28/30	Close Budew	1–3	ASC 16	Pokémon
90 %27/30	Close Mega Froslass ex	1–2	ASC 47	Pokémon
90 %27/30	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
87 %26/30	Water Energy	1–5	MEE 3	Energy
83 %25/30	Close Pokégear 3.0	2–4	SVI 186	Trainer
83 %25/30	Close Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
70 %21/30	Close Yveltal	1–4	MEG 88	Pokémon
63 %19/30	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
60 %18/30	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
60 %18/30	Close Prism Energy	2–4	ASC 216	Energy
57 %17/30	Close Risky Ruins	1–3	MEG 127	Trainer
57 %17/30	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
53 %16/30	Close Crispin	1–4	SCR 133	Trainer
43 %13/30	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
40 %12/30	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
37 %11/30	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
37 %11/30	Psychic Energy	1–2	MEE 5	Energy
33 %10/30	Close Ting-Lu	1–2	TWM 110	Pokémon
33 %10/30	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
30 %9/30	Close Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	2	TWM 64	Pokémon
27 %8/30	Close Hilda	1–3	WHT 84	Trainer
23 %7/30	Close Dark Bell	2–3	PBL 75	Trainer
23 %7/30	Close Nighttime Mine	1–2	ASC 197	Trainer
20 %6/30	Close Energy Search	1	POR 72	Trainer
17 %5/30	Close Paldean Tauros	1	SSP 18	Pokémon
17 %5/30	Close Crushing Hammer	3–4	POR 71	Trainer
17 %5/30	Close Gwynn	3	PBL 78	Trainer
17 %5/30	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–3	DRI 180	Trainer
17 %5/30	Close Larry's Skill	1–2	PRE 115	Trainer
17 %5/30	Close Team Rocket's Factory	1	DRI 173	Trainer
17 %5/30	Fire Energy	2	MEE 2	Energy
13 %4/30	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
13 %4/30	Close Counter Gain	1	SSP 169	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Uxie	2	SSP 78	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Elgyem	1	BLK 40	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Pecharunt ex	1	SFA 39	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Yveltal	1	SFA 35	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Dusk Ball	4	SSP 175	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Binding Mochi	2	PRE 95	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Hassel	1–2	TWM 151	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Judge	2	POR 76	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Colress's Tenacity	1	SFA 57	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Energy Switch	1	MEG 115	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Gravity Mountain	1	SSP 177	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Iris's Fighting Spirit	1	JTG 149	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Precious Trolley	1	SSP 185	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
7 %2/30	Close Shadowy Darkness Energy	2–4	PBL 83	Energy
7 %2/30	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
3 %1/30	Close Eevee	1	SSP 143	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Ethan's Sudowoodo	1	DRI 93	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Maractus	1	JTG 8	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Sylveon	1	PRE 40	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Tatsugiri	1	TWM 131	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Team Rocket's Articuno	1	DRI 51	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Morty's Conviction	2	TEF 155	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Janine's Secret Art	1	PRE 112	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Scoop Up Cyclone	1	TWM 162	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer

The most common Froslass / Munkidori list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 33 slots come from the core, the cards all 30 lists run. The remaining 27 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 14 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 18 Pokémon, 32 Trainers and 10 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 30 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.

One thing to fix before you play: there is no ACE SPEC card in these 60. Players split that slot so many ways that none of their cards climbed high enough to get in, and 28 of the 30 lists carry one. Take Unfair Stamp, the most chosen, and drop a card from the bottom of the table to make room.

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: 18
4 Munkidori TWM 95
4 Snorunt ASC 46
3 Froslass TWM 53
2 Budew ASC 16
2 Mega Froslass ex ASC 47
1 Yveltal MEG 88
1 Shaymin DRI 10
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142

Trainer: 32
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Poké Pad POR 81
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
3 Night Stretcher ASC 196
2 Air Balloon ASC 181
3 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186
3 Ultra Ball MEG 131
2 Risky Ruins MEG 127
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
1 Crispin SCR 133
2 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176

Energy: 10
4 Darkness Energy MEE 7
3 Water Energy MEE 3
3 Prism Energy ASC 216

Total Cards: 60

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

You need 74 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 9 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

28 of these 30 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 11 took Unfair Stamp, 10 took Secret Box and 2 took Legacy Energy. The flex table shows you all 6. 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. 4 of the 9 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Munkidori, Froslass, Buddy-Buddy Poffin and Night Stretcher. The core table marks every one of them. In copies, that is 14 of the 33 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Froslass / Munkidori 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 Water and Psychic, 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 Froslass / Munkidori deck list?

There isn't one, so we built one for you: all 60 cards are written out further up this page. Across 30 tournament lists harvested between 11 August 2026 and 2 September 2026, 9 cards turn up in every single one, 33 slots out of 60. The remaining 27 change from player to player, with 65 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

30 lists, played across 28 different tournaments, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 2 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 30 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Froslass / Munkidori?

With the whole core: 9 cards, 33 slots. Inside it, buy the 18 Trainer slots and the 4 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 11 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Budew at 93 % and Mega Froslass ex at 90 %.

What beats Froslass / Munkidori?

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 Froslass / Munkidori survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 4 core cards out of 9 carry the letter H, starting with Munkidori, Froslass, Buddy-Buddy Poffin and Night Stretcher.

Are a lot of people playing Froslass / Munkidori?

We have read 30 lists of it, which puts it 44th of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 107 entries for it, 0.26 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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