Mega Lucario ex

What Mega Lucario ex looks like when you open the box

Across the 90 lists we counted, this deck runs 13 to 19 Pokémon, 27 to 36 Trainers and 8 to 17 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Fighting.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « mega-lucario-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 17 out of 60, when half the 125 decks we track run 11 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 sets up fast. Mega Lucario ex 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: 27 to 36 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 125 decks we track. Inside that, 7 to 14 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 12 to 24 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 87 of the 125 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 Lucario ex actually wins

Mega Lucario ex attacks with Mega Brave for 270. It needs 2 Fighting Energy attached, and it has 340 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: "During your next turn, this Pokémon can't use Mega Brave."

The cost of Mega Brave 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 it charges itself. Mega Lucario ex, which the list runs 3 of, has an attack called Aura Jab that digs Energy out of your discard pile and puts it back on one of your Pokémon. That attack takes your attack for the turn, so count it as a setup turn. That is how this deck gets itself charged.

Energy is not your only clock. Riolu has to climb a step before it becomes Mega Lucario 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 53 of the 90 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 Lucario ex back to the Bench you have to discard 2 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 2 Energy you spent 2 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 Lucario 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 Lucario exStage 1	340	Mega Brave	270		Psychic ×2	2

The core: the 5 cards every list runs

These 5 cards appear in all 90 lists, without a single exception. That is 22 of the 60 slots. The other 38 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 22 slots break down: 12 Trainers, 3 Pokémon, 7 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 Lucario ex (2 to 4), Fighting Gong (3 to 4) and Lillie's Determination (2 to 4), plus 2 more. Add those spreads up and you get 18 copies the 90 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
2–4	Close Mega Lucario ex	MEG 77	Pokémon
3–4	Close Fighting Gong	MEG 116	Trainer
2–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer
1–4	Close Premium Power Pro	MEG 124	Trainer
5–15	Fighting Energy	MEE 6	Energy

The 101 cards that change from list to list

101 cards fight over the 38 slots that are left: 6 above three lists in four, 77 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Lunatone at 98 %, Solrock at 98 % and Boss's Orders at 98 %, plus 3 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Night Stretcher, at 49 %: 44 of 90 players took it, 46 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Crushing Hammer (18 lists out of 90) and Team Rocket's Petrel (18 lists out of 90).

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
98 %88/90	Close Lunatone	2–3	MEG 74	Pokémon
98 %88/90	Close Solrock	2–3	MEG 75	Pokémon
98 %88/90	Close Boss's Orders	1–4	MEG 114	Trainer
94 %85/90	Close Poké Pad	2–4	POR 81	Trainer
88 %79/90	Close Gravity Mountain	1–3	SSP 177	Trainer
78 %70/90	Close Rocky Fighting Energy	1–4	POR 87	Energy
73 %66/90	Close Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
70 %63/90	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
68 %61/90	Close Dudunsparce	2–3	TEF 129	Pokémon
66 %59/90	Close Dunsparce	2–3	JTG 120	Pokémon
64 %58/90	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	2–4	TEF 144	Trainer
63 %57/90	Close Riolu	1–4	PRE 50	Pokémon
62 %56/90	Close Riolu	1–4	MEG 76	Pokémon
60 %54/90	Close Air Balloon	1–3	ASC 181	Trainer
59 %53/90	Close Hilda	1–3	WHT 84	Trainer
56 %50/90	Close Dudunsparce ex	1	JTG 121	Pokémon
56 %50/90	Close Wally's Compassion	1–3	MEG 132	Trainer
49 %44/90	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
39 %35/90	Close Judge	1–3	POR 76	Trainer
39 %35/90	Close Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
36 %32/90	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
26 %23/90	Close Meowth ex	1–2	POR 62	Pokémon
26 %23/90	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
26 %23/90	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
20 %18/90	Close Crushing Hammer	3–4	POR 71	Trainer
20 %18/90	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
18 %16/90	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
17 %15/90	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
16 %14/90	Close Battle Cage	1–2	PFL 85	Trainer
16 %14/90	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
12 %11/90	Close Rare Candy	2–3	MEG 125	Trainer
12 %11/90	Close Black Belt's Training	1	JTG 143	Trainer
12 %11/90	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1–2	SFA 64	Trainer
11 %10/90	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1–2	TWM 112	Pokémon
10 %9/90	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
10 %9/90	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	1–2	TEF 145	Trainer
10 %9/90	Close Maximum Belt	1	TEF 154	Trainer
9 %8/90	Close Mega Signal	1–2	MEG 121	Trainer
9 %8/90	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–3	SVI 186	Trainer
9 %8/90	Close Salvatore	1–2	TEF 160	Trainer
8 %7/90	Close Togekiss	1–2	SSP 72	Pokémon
8 %7/90	Close Togepi	1–2	SSP 70	Pokémon
8 %7/90	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–2	DRI 180	Trainer
8 %7/90	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
7 %6/90	Close Hariyama	1	MEG 73	Pokémon
7 %6/90	Close Makuhita	1–2	MEG 72	Pokémon
7 %6/90	Close Togetic	1	SSP 71	Pokémon
6 %5/90	Close Mega Zygarde ex	1–2	POR 47	Pokémon
6 %5/90	Close Lucario	1	30C 83	Pokémon
6 %5/90	Close Kieran	1	TWM 154	Trainer
4 %4/90	Close Pokémon Catcher	2–4	POR 82	Trainer
4 %4/90	Close AZ's Tranquility	1–2	CRI 76	Trainer
4 %4/90	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
3 %3/90	Close Dunsparce	1–3	TEF 128	Pokémon
3 %3/90	Close Mew ex	2	30C 66	Pokémon
3 %3/90	Close Munkidori	2	TWM 95	Pokémon
3 %3/90	Close Riolu	1–3	SCR 81	Pokémon
3 %3/90	Close Core Memory	1	POR 70	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Cinderace	4	MEG 28	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Duskull	2–3	PRE 35	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Clefable	2	TWM 79	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Clefairy	2	POR 30	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Dusclops	1–2	PRE 36	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Dusknoir	2	PRE 37	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Mega Audino ex	2	ASC 172	Pokémon
2 %2/90	Close Jumbo Ice Cream	3–4	PFL 91	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Backtrack Badge	1–2	PBL 74	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Carmine	1	TWM 145	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Colress's Tenacity	1	SFA 57	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Crispin	1	SCR 133	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Energy Switch	1	MEG 115	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Festival Grounds	1	TWM 149	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Handheld Fan	1	TWM 150	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Harlequin	1	WHT 83	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Prime Catcher	1	TEF 157	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Tarragon	1	POR 85	Trainer
2 %2/90	Close Team Rocket's Transceiver	1	DRI 178	Trainer
2 %2/90	Darkness Energy	2	MEE 15	Energy
1 %1/90	Close Pikipek	3	PBL 66	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Bastiodon	2	PBL 62	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Okidogi	2	TWM 111	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Shieldon	2	PBL 61	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Toucannon	2	PBL 68	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Trumbeak	2	PBL 67	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna	1	PRE 54	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Marshadow	1	MEG 80	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Okidogi	1	ASC 122	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Patrat	1	CRI 70	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Yveltal	1	30C 100	Pokémon
1 %1/90	Close Antique Armor Fossil	3	PBL 72	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Lucky Helmet	3	TWM 158	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Fossil Quarry	2	PBL 76	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Naveen	1	POR 79	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Nighttime Mine	1	ASC 197	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Precious Trolley	1	SSP 185	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Scoop Up Cyclone	1	TWM 162	Trainer
1 %1/90	Close Prism Energy	3	ASC 216	Energy

The most common Mega Lucario ex list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 22 slots come from the core, the cards all 90 lists run. The remaining 38 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 19 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 17 Pokémon, 34 Trainers and 9 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 90 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 90 of the 90 lists carry one. Take Hero's Cape, 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.

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: 17
3 Mega Lucario ex MEG 77
2 Lunatone MEG 74
2 Solrock MEG 75
2 Dudunsparce TEF 129
3 Dunsparce JTG 120
3 Riolu PRE 50
1 Riolu MEG 76
1 Dudunsparce ex JTG 121

Trainer: 34
4 Fighting Gong MEG 116
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Premium Power Pro MEG 124
3 Boss's Orders MEG 114
4 Poké Pad POR 81
2 Gravity Mountain SSP 177
3 Ultra Ball MEG 131
1 Special Red Card CRI 82
2 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
2 Air Balloon ASC 181
2 Hilda WHT 84
1 Wally's Compassion MEG 132
1 Night Stretcher ASC 196
1 Judge POR 76

Energy: 9
7 Fighting Energy MEE 6
2 Rocky Fighting Energy POR 87

Total Cards: 60

Which decks beat Mega Lucario ex at tournaments

Here is how Mega Lucario ex did against every other deck at tournaments. Real games, real players sitting across the table from each other, and the platform those tournaments run on counts them one by one. All of them were played after 30th Celebration became legal for tournaments, and we read the table on 22 October 2026.

The format matters more than people think. When the next set lands, decks get rebuilt around the new cards, and a matchup that leaned one way can swing the other. What you are reading holds for today's format.

We start with the opponent that gives you the most trouble, because that is where the work is before your next tournament. The further down the list you go, the better it goes for you.

Always look at the number of games next to the score. Six wins out of ten happens on its own, even with a middling deck: it is the same as flipping six heads in ten tries. Six hundred out of a thousand, and luck has nothing to do with it. Below 100 games we show nothing at all, because at that count half the matchups look like they lean one way when they lean nowhere.

Against Dragapult ex: over 205 games, 88 won and 115 lost. 2 ended with no winner.

How many different cards Mega Lucario ex needs, and how long it will last

You need 106 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 5 of which nobody argues about. The rest is where lists differ from one another, and that is where you have room to choose.

All 90 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 32 took Hero's Cape, 23 took Unfair Stamp and 15 took Secret Box. The flex table shows you all 8. 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 Hero's Cape 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 Lucario ex struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Psychic, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 30 of the 125 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: N's Zoroark ex (Munkidori), Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex and Slowking (Latias ex), plus 27 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 30 decks out of the 125 we track. The other 95 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 Fighting, and 41 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex, Latias ex / Mega Kangaskhan ex and Slowking, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.