Lillie's Clefairy ex

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

Across the 70 lists we counted, this deck runs 16 to 32 Pokémon, 25 to 36 Trainers and 3 to 16 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: 3 to 16 out of 60, when half the 126 decks we track run 11 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.

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: 25 to 36 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 126 decks we track. Inside that, 8 to 12 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 9 to 19 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 87 of the 126 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 70 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. Crispin does the same job. 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+		Metal ×2	1

The core: the 4 cards every list runs

These 4 cards appear in all 70 lists, without a single exception. That is 10 of the 60 slots. The other 50 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 10 slots break down: 5 Trainers, 4 Pokémon, 1 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.

4 of those 4 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Lillie's Clefairy ex (3 to 4), Wondrous Patch (1 to 4) and Lillie's Pearl (1 to 4), plus 1 more. Add those spreads up and you get 10 copies the 70 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
1–4	Close Wondrous Patch	PFL 94	Trainer
1–4	Close Lillie's Pearl	JTG 151	Trainer
1–4	Close Telepathic Psychic Energy	POR 88	Energy

The 121 cards that change from list to list

121 cards fight over the 50 slots that are left: 16 above three lists in four, 99 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Boss's Orders at 99 %, Psychic Energy at 99 % and Meowth ex at 94 %, plus 13 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Moltres, at 56 %: 39 of 70 players took it, 31 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Judge (17 lists out of 70) and Special Red Card (17 lists out of 70).

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
99 %69/70	Close Boss's Orders	2–3	MEG 114	Trainer
99 %69/70	Psychic Energy	2–7	MEE 5	Energy
94 %66/70	Close Meowth ex	1–4	POR 62	Pokémon
94 %66/70	Close Latias ex	1–3	SSP 76	Pokémon
94 %66/70	Close Fezandipiti ex	1–2	ASC 142	Pokémon
89 %62/70	Close Crispin	2–4	SCR 133	Trainer
87 %61/70	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	2–4	MEG 104	Pokémon
86 %60/70	Close Area Zero Underdepths	2–4	SCR 131	Trainer
86 %60/70	Close Cyrano	1–3	SSP 170	Trainer
86 %60/70	Water Energy	1–3	MEE 3	Energy
84 %59/70	Close Chien-Pao	1	SSP 56	Pokémon
84 %59/70	Close Dusk Ball	2–4	SSP 175	Trainer
83 %58/70	Fire Energy	1–3	MEE 2	Energy
81 %57/70	Close Ultra Ball	2–4	MEG 131	Trainer
79 %55/70	Close Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	1–2	TWM 64	Pokémon
76 %53/70	Fighting Energy	1–2	MEE 6	Energy
66 %46/70	Close Koraidon ex	1	ASC 121	Pokémon
61 %43/70	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
56 %39/70	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
56 %39/70	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
43 %30/70	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
30 %21/70	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
24 %17/70	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
24 %17/70	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
19 %13/70	Close Heatran	1–2	PBL 7	Pokémon
16 %11/70	Close Lillie's Determination	2–4	MEG 119	Trainer
14 %10/70	Close Poké Pad	1–4	POR 81	Trainer
13 %9/70	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
11 %8/70	Close Paldean Tauros	1	SSP 18	Pokémon
10 %7/70	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1–2	TWM 112	Pokémon
10 %7/70	Close Mew ex	1–4	30C 66	Pokémon
10 %7/70	Close Rare Candy	2–3	MEG 125	Trainer
10 %7/70	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–3	SVI 186	Trainer
10 %7/70	Darkness Energy	2	MEE 15	Energy
9 %6/70	Close Mystery Garden	2–3	MEG 122	Trainer
9 %6/70	Lightning Energy	1–2	MEE 12	Energy
7 %5/70	Close Duskull	3	PRE 35	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Dusclops	2	PRE 36	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Dusknoir	2	PRE 37	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Okidogi	1	TWM 111	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Togekiss	1	SSP 72	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Togepi	1	SSP 70	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Zeraora	1	SCR 55	Pokémon
7 %5/70	Close Carmine	3	TWM 145	Trainer
7 %5/70	Close Black Belt's Training	1	JTG 143	Trainer
7 %5/70	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
7 %5/70	Close Voltaic Lightning Energy	1	PBL 84	Energy
6 %4/70	Close Unown	1	30C 72	Pokémon
6 %4/70	Close Energy Switch	1	MEG 115	Trainer
6 %4/70	Close Mist Energy	1–3	TEF 161	Energy
4 %3/70	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2–4	TEF 144	Trainer
4 %3/70	Close AZ's Tranquility	1	CRI 76	Trainer
3 %2/70	Close Mega Lopunny ex	1–2	PFL 84	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Munkidori	1–2	TWM 95	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Chi-Yu	1	TWM 39	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Iron Crown ex	1	TEF 81	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Pecharunt ex	1	SFA 39	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Stunfisk	1	ASC 62	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Terapagos ex	1	SCR 128	Pokémon
3 %2/70	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–3	DRI 176	Trainer
3 %2/70	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
3 %2/70	Close Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
3 %2/70	Close Battle Cage	1	PFL 85	Trainer
3 %2/70	Close Energy Retrieval	1	SVI 171	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Dreepy	4	TWM 128	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Dunsparce	4	JTG 120	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Kadabra	4	MEG 55	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Relicanth	4	PBL 17	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Abra	3	MEG 54	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Alakazam	3	MEG 56	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Drakloak	3	TWM 129	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Dudunsparce	3	TEF 129	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Rellor	3	DRI 24	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Bastiodon	2	PBL 62	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Buneary	2	PFL 83	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Capsakid	2	SSP 12	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Jynx	2	PBL 32	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Mr. Mime	2	TEF 63	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Shieldon	2	PBL 61	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Shuppet	2	PBL 33	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Team Rocket's Mimikyu	2	DRI 87	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Tirtouga	2	BLK 22	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Zarude	2	SSP 11	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Abra	1	TWM 80	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Banette	1	PBL 34	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Buneary	1	MEG 107	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Dudunsparce ex	1	JTG 121	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Fan Rotom	1	SCR 118	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Jirachi ex	1	30C 102	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Koraidon ex	1	TEF 120	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Mega Diancie ex	1	PFL 41	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Passimian	1	SSP 111	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Rabsca	1	TEF 24	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Rellor	1	TEF 23	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Tatsugiri	1	TWM 131	Pokémon
1 %1/70	Close Antique Cover Fossil	4	SCR 129	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Explorer's Guidance	4	TEF 147	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Fossil Quarry	4	PBL 76	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Urbain	3	ASC 214	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Antique Armor Fossil	2	PBL 72	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Brock's Scouting	2	JTG 146	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Cheren	2	WHT 81	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Forest of Vitality	2	MEG 117	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Hilda	2	WHT 84	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Nighttime Mine	2	ASC 197	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Crushing Hammer	1	POR 71	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Dangerous Laser	1	SFA 58	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Dark Bell	1	PBL 75	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Lively Stadium	1	SSP 180	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Prism Tower	1	CRI 80	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Sacred Ash	1	DRI 168	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Wally's Compassion	1	MEG 132	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
1 %1/70	Close Bubbly Water Energy	1	CRI 84	Energy
1 %1/70	Close Enriching Energy	1	SSP 191	Energy
1 %1/70	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
1 %1/70	Close Prism Energy	1	ASC 216	Energy

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

Here they are in full, ready to build. 10 slots come from the core, the cards all 70 lists run. The remaining 50 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 20 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 70 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.

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

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

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

Total Cards: 60

How many different cards Lillie's Clefairy ex needs, and how long it will last

You need 125 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 4 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

69 of these 70 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 39 took Prime Catcher, 21 took Unfair Stamp and 5 took Secret Box. The flex table shows you all 7. 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 4 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. 10 of the 126 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Slowking (Metagross), Mega Excadrill ex and Steven's Metagross ex, plus 7 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 10 decks out of the 126 we track. The other 116 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 / Hariyama, Mega Lucario ex and Greninja ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.