Lillie's Clefairy ex deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Lillie's Clefairy ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 30 lists we counted, this deck runs 19 to 23 Pokémon, 27 to 31 Trainers and 9 to 10 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Psychic.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « lillie-clefairy ». 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.

Nothing here needs evolving — everything that attacks is a Basic Pokémon. Put it down, charge it, swing. That is as fast as the game gets, and it makes those turns where you draw nothing far less painful.

Look at the Trainers: 27 to 31 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 9 to 11 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 11 to 15 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 57 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 card in this deck's name actually does

Lillie's Clefairy ex gives this deck its name. Here is what is written on it.

Lillie's Clefairy ex is in all 30 lists, 4 copies of it. Its Ability is called Fairy Zone, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « The Weakness of each of your opponent's {N} Pokémon in play is now {P}. (Apply Weakness as ×2.) »

How Lillie's Clefairy ex actually wins

Lillie's Clefairy ex attacks with Full Moon Rondo. It needs 2 Energy, 1 Psychic and 1 Colorless attached, and it has 190 HP. Watch the damage box: "20+" is not a total. Here is what the card prints, word for word: "This attack does 20 more damage for each Benched Pokémon (both yours and your opponent's)."

The cost of Full Moon Rondo 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. Except you are not on your own. Wondrous Patch, which the list runs 3 of, digs Energy out of your discard pile and puts it back on one of your Pokémon. That is where this deck buys its turns, and it is the first thing to look for in your opening hand.

Good news on mobility: pulling Lillie's Clefairy 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.

Lillie's Clefairy ex carries the "ex" suffix, and your opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of one when Lillie's Clefairy 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 Lillie's Clefairy exBasic	190	Full Moon Rondo	20+	Psychic + Colorless	Metal ×2	1

The core: the 7 cards every list runs

These 7 cards appear in all 30 lists, without a single exception. That is 21 of the 60 slots. The other 39 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 21 slots break down: 12 Trainers, 4 Pokémon, 5 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.

7 of those 7 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Lillie's Clefairy ex (3 to 4), Ultra Ball (2 to 4) and Boss's Orders (2 to 3), plus 4 more. Add those spreads up and you get 10 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
3–4	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	JTG 56	Pokémon
2–4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer
2–3	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer
2–3	Close Wondrous Patch	PFL 94	Trainer
2–3	Close Lillie's Pearl	JTG 151	Trainer
4–5	Psychic Energy	MEE 5	Energy
1–4	Close Telepathic Psychic Energy	POR 88	Energy

The 55 cards that change from list to list

55 cards fight over the 39 slots that are left: 16 above three lists in four, 38 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Mega Kangaskhan ex at 97 %, Meowth ex at 97 % and Latias ex at 97 %, plus 13 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Koraidon ex, at 73 %: 22 of 30 players took it, 8 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Special Red Card (5 lists out of 30) and Black Belt's Training (4 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
97 %29/30	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	3–4	MEG 104	Pokémon
97 %29/30	Close Meowth ex	3–4	POR 62	Pokémon
97 %29/30	Close Latias ex	2–3	SSP 76	Pokémon
97 %29/30	Close Fezandipiti ex	1–2	ASC 142	Pokémon
97 %29/30	Close Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	1–2	TWM 64	Pokémon
97 %29/30	Close Area Zero Underdepths	3–4	SCR 131	Trainer
97 %29/30	Close Crispin	3–4	SCR 133	Trainer
97 %29/30	Close Dusk Ball	3–4	SSP 175	Trainer
97 %29/30	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	2	TEF 145	Trainer
97 %29/30	Close Cyrano	1	SSP 170	Trainer
97 %29/30	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
97 %29/30	Water Energy	1–3	MEE 3	Energy
97 %29/30	Fire Energy	1–3	MEE 2	Energy
93 %28/30	Close Chien-Pao	1	SSP 56	Pokémon
93 %28/30	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
80 %24/30	Fighting Energy	1–2	MEE 6	Energy
73 %22/30	Close Koraidon ex	1	ASC 121	Pokémon
17 %5/30	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
13 %4/30	Close Black Belt's Training	1	JTG 143	Trainer
10 %3/30	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
10 %3/30	Close Paldean Tauros	1	SSP 18	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Pecharunt ex	1	SFA 39	Pokémon
7 %2/30	Close Terapagos ex	1	SCR 128	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Kadabra	4	MEG 55	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Abra	3	MEG 54	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Alakazam	3	MEG 56	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Abra	1	TWM 80	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Buneary	1	MEG 107	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Chi-Yu	1	TWM 39	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Iron Crown ex	1	TEF 81	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Koraidon ex	1	TEF 120	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Mega Lopunny ex	1	PFL 84	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Munkidori	1	TWM 95	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Passimian	1	SSP 111	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Rabsca	1	TEF 24	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Rellor	1	TEF 23	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
3 %1/30	Close Poké Pad	4	POR 81	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Lillie's Determination	3	MEG 119	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Urbain	3	ASC 214	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2	TEF 144	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Cheren	2	WHT 81	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Forest of Vitality	2	MEG 117	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Rare Candy	2	MEG 125	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Air Balloon	1	ASC 181	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Energy Retrieval	1	SVI 171	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Judge	1	POR 76	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Night Stretcher	1	ASC 196	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Prism Tower	1	CRI 80	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer
3 %1/30	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
3 %1/30	Darkness Energy	2	MEE 7	Energy
3 %1/30	Close Enriching Energy	1	SSP 191	Energy

The most common Lillie's Clefairy ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 21 slots come from the core, the cards all 30 lists run. The remaining 39 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 17 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 22 Pokémon, 28 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.

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: 22
4 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56
4 Mega Kangaskhan ex MEG 104
4 Meowth ex POR 62
3 Latias ex SSP 76
2 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
2 Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 64
1 Chien-Pao SSP 56
1 Moltres PFL 14
1 Koraidon ex ASC 121

Trainer: 28
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
3 Wondrous Patch PFL 94
2 Lillie's Pearl JTG 151
4 Area Zero Underdepths SCR 131
4 Crispin SCR 133
4 Dusk Ball SSP 175
2 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 145
1 Cyrano SSP 170
1 Prime Catcher TEF 157

Energy: 10
4 Psychic Energy MEE 5
1 Telepathic Psychic Energy POR 88
2 Water Energy MEE 3
1 Fire Energy MEE 2
2 Fighting Energy MEE 6

Total Cards: 60

What Lillie's Clefairy ex costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 62 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 30 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 29 took Prime Catcher and 1 took Enriching Energy. 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 Prime Catcher and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time, and the answer is a good one: not one of the 7 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. This deck walks through the change whole.

What Lillie's Clefairy ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Metal, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 11 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking (Metagross) and Cinccino ex (Genesect ex), plus 8 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 11 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 86 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, and 6 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Greninja ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Lillie's Clefairy ex 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 25 August 2026, 7 cards turn up in every single one, 21 slots out of 60. The remaining 39 change from player to player, with 55 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 29 different tournaments, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 25 August 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 Lillie's Clefairy ex?

With the whole core: 7 cards, 21 slots. Inside it, buy the 12 Trainer slots and the 5 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 4 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Mega Kangaskhan ex at 97 % and Meowth ex at 97 %.

What beats Lillie's Clefairy ex?

Its attackers are Weak to Metal, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 11 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Excadrill ex, Slowking, Cinccino ex and Steven's Metagross ex, among others.

Will Lillie's Clefairy ex survive the next rotation?

Yes, whole: not one of the 7 core cards carries the letter H. At equal price, that is the argument that should settle where your money goes.

Are a lot of people playing Lillie's Clefairy ex?

We have read 30 lists of it, which puts it 45th 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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