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

What Mega Feraligatr ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 21 lists we counted, this deck runs 15 to 24 Pokémon, 24 to 34 Trainers and 8 to 14 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Water.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « mega-feraligatr-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: 8 to 14 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 takes a while to set up. Mega Feraligatr 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: 24 to 34 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 9 to 15 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 9 to 21 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.

How Mega Feraligatr ex actually wins

Mega Feraligatr ex attacks with Mortal Crunch. It needs 3 Energy, 2 Water and 1 Colorless attached, and it has 370 HP. The damage box reads "200+", and that little symbol hides the real decision on this card: 200 to start with, 400 the moment the Pokémon across the table is already damaged.

The cost of Mortal Crunch 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.

Energy is not your only clock. Totodile has to climb two steps before it becomes Mega Feraligatr ex, and an evolution asleep at the bottom of your deck does you no good at all. The list has that covered. Hilda, which the list runs 2 of, goes into your deck for an evolution. Careful, though: only 18 of the 21 lists bring it, so it is a choice, and players are still arguing about it.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Mega Feraligatr ex back to the Bench you have to discard 3 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 3 Energy you spent 3 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.

Mega Feraligatr ex is a Mega Evolution ex, and that is the most expensive rule in the game: your opponent takes 3 Prize cards instead of one the turn it goes down. They need 6 to win the game, so 2 well-placed knockouts on that card beat you, where it would take 6 knockouts 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 Mega Feraligatr exStage 2	370	Mortal Crunch	200+	Water + Water + Colorless	Lightning ×2	3

The core: the 5 cards every list runs

These 5 cards appear in all 21 lists, without a single exception. That is 17 of the 60 slots. The other 43 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 17 slots break down: 9 Trainers, 2 Pokémon, 6 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.

5 of those 5 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Mega Feraligatr ex (2 to 3), Lillie's Determination (2 to 4) and Boss's Orders (1 to 4), plus 2 more. Add those spreads up and you get 13 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
2–3	Close Mega Feraligatr ex	ASC 43	Pokémon
2–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer
1–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer
1–3	Close Rare Candy	MEG 125	Trainer
4–9	Water Energy	MEE 3	Energy

The 83 cards that change from list to list

83 cards fight over the 43 slots that are left: 11 above three lists in four, 58 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Totodile at 95 %, Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 95 % and Poké Pad at 95 %, plus 8 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Snorunt, at 48 %: 10 of 21 players took it, 11 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 4 copies. Right at the bottom of the table, Croconaw (5 lists out of 21) and Team Rocket's Crobat ex (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
95 %20/21	Close Totodile	2–4	TEF 39	Pokémon
95 %20/21	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	1–4	TEF 144	Trainer
95 %20/21	Close Poké Pad	1–4	POR 81	Trainer
95 %20/21	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
86 %18/21	Close Hilda	1–3	WHT 84	Trainer
81 %17/21	Close Feraligatr	1–2	TEF 41	Pokémon
81 %17/21	Close Neo Upper Energy	1	TEF 162	Energy
76 %16/21	Close Munkidori	2–3	TWM 95	Pokémon
76 %16/21	Close Croconaw	2–3	TEF 40	Pokémon
76 %16/21	Close Crispin	1–3	SCR 133	Trainer
76 %16/21	Darkness Energy	2–4	MEE 7	Energy
71 %15/21	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
71 %15/21	Close Ultra Ball	1–3	MEG 131	Trainer
57 %12/21	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
48 %10/21	Close Snorunt	1–4	ASC 46	Pokémon
48 %10/21	Close Risky Ruins	1–4	MEG 127	Trainer
48 %10/21	Close Surfing Beach	1–3	MEG 129	Trainer
43 %9/21	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
43 %9/21	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
38 %8/21	Close Froslass	2–3	TWM 53	Pokémon
38 %8/21	Close Mega Froslass ex	1–2	ASC 47	Pokémon
38 %8/21	Close Dawn	1–3	PFL 87	Trainer
38 %8/21	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
29 %6/21	Close Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
29 %6/21	Close Latias ex	1	SSP 76	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Croconaw	1–3	ASC 42	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Team Rocket's Crobat ex	2	DRI 122	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Team Rocket's Golbat	2–3	DRI 121	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Team Rocket's Zubat	2–3	DRI 120	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Relicanth	1	TEF 84	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Tatsugiri	1	TWM 131	Pokémon
24 %5/21	Close Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
24 %5/21	Close Team Rocket's Energy	2	DRI 182	Energy
19 %4/21	Close Mega Signal	2	MEG 121	Trainer
19 %4/21	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–3	DRI 176	Trainer
19 %4/21	Close Wally's Compassion	1	MEG 132	Trainer
19 %4/21	Close Bubbly Water Energy	1–2	CRI 84	Energy
14 %3/21	Close Jumbo Ice Cream	1–3	PFL 91	Trainer
14 %3/21	Close Pokégear 3.0	2–3	SVI 186	Trainer
14 %3/21	Close Great Haul Net	1–2	CRI 78	Trainer
14 %3/21	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
10 %2/21	Close Yveltal	1	MEG 88	Pokémon
10 %2/21	Close Judge	1–2	POR 76	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Misty's Vitality	1	PBL 80	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Rosa's Encouragement	1	POR 84	Trainer
10 %2/21	Close Prism Energy	1	ASC 216	Energy
5 %1/21	Close Cinderace	4	MEG 28	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Goldeen	3	TWM 44	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Grookey	3	TWM 14	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Thwackey	3	TWM 15	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Totodile	3	ASC 41	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Drakloak	2	TWM 129	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Dreepy	2	TWM 128	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Dudunsparce	2	TEF 129	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Dunsparce	2	TEF 128	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Hoothoot	2	SCR 114	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	2	MEG 104	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Mega Starmie ex	2	POR 21	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Noctowl	2	SCR 115	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Staryu	2	POR 20	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex	2	TWM 64	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Pecharunt ex	1	SFA 39	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Seaking	1	PRE 21	Pokémon
5 %1/21	Close Roto-Stick	2	PRE 127	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	2	DRI 179	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Counter Gain	1	SSP 169	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Energy Search	1	POR 72	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Energy Switch	1	MEG 115	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Grand Tree	1	SCR 136	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Hassel	1	TWM 151	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Precious Trolley	1	SSP 185	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Redeemable Ticket	1	JTG 156	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Tera Orb	1	SSP 189	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
5 %1/21	Close Ignition Energy	3	WHT 86	Energy

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

You need 88 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 5 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: 17 took Neo Upper Energy, 1 took Grand Tree 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 Neo Upper Energy 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 5 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. This deck walks through the change whole.

What Mega Feraligatr ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Lightning, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 5 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik, Iono's Bellibolt ex and Joltik, plus 2 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 5 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 92 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 10 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, Ethan's Typhlosion and Ceruledge ex, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Mega Feraligatr ex deck list?

There isn't one. Across 21 tournament lists harvested between 16 August 2026 and 2 September 2026, 5 cards turn up in every single one, 17 slots out of 60. The remaining 43 change from player to player, with 83 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 2 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 Mega Feraligatr ex?

With the whole core: 5 cards, 17 slots. Inside it, buy the 9 Trainer slots and the 6 Energy first: they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 2 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Totodile at 95 % and Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 95 %.

What beats Mega Feraligatr ex?

Its attackers are Weak to Lightning, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 5 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Mega Manectric ex / Eelektrik, Iono's Bellibolt ex, Joltik and Raging Bolt ex / Iono's Bellibolt ex, among others.

Will Mega Feraligatr ex survive the next rotation?

Yes, whole: not one of the 5 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 Mega Feraligatr ex?

We have read 21 lists of it, which puts it 76th of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 40 entries for it, 0.1 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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