Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity looks like when you open the box

Across the 49 lists we counted, this deck runs 15 to 21 Pokémon, 31 to 37 Trainers and 8 to 11 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Darkness.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « sharpedo-toxtricity ». 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 11 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.

It sets up fast. Mega Sharpedo 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: 31 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 11 to 22 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 cards in this deck's name actually do

Mega Sharpedo ex and Toxtricity give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Mega Sharpedo ex is in all 49 lists, 3 copies of it.

Toxtricity is in all 49 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Sinister Surge, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, you may use this Ability. Search your deck for a Basic {D} Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Benched {D} Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, place 2 damage counters on that Pokémon. »

How Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity actually wins

Mega Sharpedo ex attacks with Hungry Jaws. It needs 2 Darkness Energy attached, and it has 330 HP. The damage box reads "120+", and that little symbol hides the real decision on this card: 120 to start with, 270 the moment it has taken a hit itself.

The cost of Hungry Jaws 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. Toxtricity, which the list runs 2 of, has an Ability called Sinister Surge: it goes into your deck for Energy and attaches it. An Ability costs you nothing: not your attack, not your card for the turn. That is where this deck buys its turns, and it is the first thing to look for in your opening hand.

Energy is not your only clock. Carvanha has to climb a step before it becomes Mega Sharpedo ex, and an evolution asleep at the bottom of your deck does you no good at all. The list has that covered. Mega Signal, which the list runs 3 of, goes into your deck for an evolution. Careful, though: only 34 of the 49 lists bring it, so it is a choice, and players are still arguing about it.

Good news on mobility: Mega Sharpedo ex retreats for free. You get it back to the Bench without discarding a single Energy, and you can still attack in the same turn. An attacker that comes and goes like that walks out of almost any mess.

Mega Sharpedo 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 Sharpedo exStage 1	330	Hungry Jaws	120+	Darkness + Darkness	Grass ×2	0
Close ToxtricityStage 1	140	Gentle Slap	100	Darkness + Darkness + Colorless	Fighting ×2	2
Close CarvanhaBasic	70	Reckless Charge	30	Darkness	Grass ×2	1
Close ToxelBasic	70	Playful Kick	20	Darkness + Colorless	Fighting ×2	1

The core: the 9 cards every list runs

These 9 cards appear in all 49 lists, without a single exception. That is 36 of the 60 slots. The other 24 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 36 slots break down: 14 Trainers, 11 Pokémon, 11 Energy. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 36 of the 60 slots are the same for everybody, when half the 97 decks we track fix 34 or fewer. Fewer choices left to you than usual, and fewer ways to get them wrong.

8 of those 9 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Carvanha (3 to 4), Mega Sharpedo ex (2 to 4) and Toxel (2 to 3), plus 5 more. Add those spreads up and you get 17 copies the 49 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 Carvanha	PFL 60	Pokémon
2–4	Close Mega Sharpedo ex	PFL 61	Pokémon
2–3	Close Toxel	PFL 67	Pokémon
2	Close Toxtricity	PFL 68	Pokémon
2–4	Close Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer
3–4	Close Poké Pad	POR 81	Trainer
1–4	Close Ultra Ball	MEG 131	Trainer
2–4	Close Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer
6–11	Darkness Energy	MEE 7	Energy

The 74 cards that change from list to list

74 cards fight over the 24 slots that are left: 4 above three lists in four, 55 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Munkidori at 98 %, Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 96 % and Pecharunt ex at 94 %, plus 1 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Team Rocket's Petrel, at 51 %: 25 of 49 players took it, 24 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 2 copies. Right at the bottom of the table, Okidogi ex (9 lists out of 49) and Wally's Compassion (9 lists out of 49).

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 %48/49	Close Munkidori	1–3	TWM 95	Pokémon
96 %47/49	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	1–4	TEF 144	Trainer
94 %46/49	Close Pecharunt ex	1–3	SFA 39	Pokémon
92 %45/49	Close Binding Mochi	2–3	PRE 95	Trainer
69 %34/49	Close Gravity Mountain	1–4	SSP 177	Trainer
69 %34/49	Close Mega Signal	1–3	MEG 121	Trainer
67 %33/49	Close Night Stretcher	1–3	ASC 196	Trainer
61 %30/49	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
53 %26/49	Close Judge	1–4	POR 76	Trainer
51 %25/49	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–4	DRI 176	Trainer
47 %23/49	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
45 %22/49	Close Janine's Secret Art	1–3	PRE 112	Trainer
43 %21/49	Close Tatsugiri	1–2	TWM 131	Pokémon
39 %19/49	Close Special Red Card	1–2	CRI 82	Trainer
37 %18/49	Close Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
37 %18/49	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1–4	DRI 180	Trainer
37 %18/49	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
27 %13/49	Close Mega Lopunny ex	1	PFL 84	Pokémon
27 %13/49	Close Yveltal	1	MEG 88	Pokémon
18 %9/49	Close Okidogi ex	2	SFA 36	Pokémon
18 %9/49	Close Wally's Compassion	1–2	MEG 132	Trainer
16 %8/49	Close Buneary	1	MEG 107	Pokémon
16 %8/49	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
16 %8/49	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
14 %7/49	Close Mega Kangaskhan ex	1–3	MEG 104	Pokémon
12 %6/49	Close Psyduck	1	ASC 39	Pokémon
12 %6/49	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
12 %6/49	Close Energy Switch	1–3	MEG 115	Trainer
12 %6/49	Close Air Balloon	1–2	ASC 181	Trainer
10 %5/49	Close Buneary	1–2	PFL 83	Pokémon
8 %4/49	Close Switch	1	MEG 130	Trainer
6 %3/49	Close Dudunsparce	1–3	TEF 129	Pokémon
6 %3/49	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–2	SVI 186	Trainer
6 %3/49	Close Risky Ruins	1–2	MEG 127	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Mega Absol ex	1–2	MEG 86	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Budew	1	ASC 16	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Dudunsparce ex	1	JTG 121	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Dunsparce	1	JTG 120	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Flutter Mane	1	TEF 78	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Seviper	1	PFL 62	Pokémon
4 %2/49	Close Crushing Hammer	2–4	POR 71	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Battle Cage	1–2	PFL 85	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	2	TEF 145	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Dark Bell	1–2	PBL 75	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Kofu	2	SCR 138	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Team Rocket's Factory	2	DRI 173	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Brock's Scouting	1	JTG 146	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Energy Retrieval	1	SVI 171	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Handheld Fan	1	TWM 150	Trainer
4 %2/49	Close Prism Energy	1–2	ASC 216	Energy
2 %1/49	Close Dunsparce	3	TEF 128	Pokémon
2 %1/49	Close Brute Bonnet	2	TWM 118	Pokémon
2 %1/49	Close Chi-Yu	1	PBL 59	Pokémon
2 %1/49	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
2 %1/49	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
2 %1/49	Close Yveltal ex	1	POR 53	Pokémon
2 %1/49	Close Hilda	2	WHT 84	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close AZ's Tranquility	1	CRI 76	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Colress's Tenacity	1	SFA 57	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Cyrano	1	SSP 170	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Drayton	1	SSP 174	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Enhanced Hammer	1	TWM 148	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Eri	1	TEF 146	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Explorer's Guidance	1	TEF 147	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Gravity Gemstone	1	SCR 137	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Hand Trimmer	1	TEF 150	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Iris's Fighting Spirit	1	JTG 149	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Jamming Tower	1	TWM 153	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Repel	1	MEG 126	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Team Rocket's Transceiver	1	DRI 178	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
2 %1/49	Close Mist Energy	2	TEF 161	Energy
2 %1/49	Close Shadowy Darkness Energy	2	PBL 83	Energy

The most common Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 36 slots come from the core, the cards all 49 lists run. The remaining 24 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 9 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 16 Pokémon, 33 Trainers and 11 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 49 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 49 of the 49 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.

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: 16
4 Carvanha PFL 60
3 Mega Sharpedo ex PFL 61
2 Toxel PFL 67
2 Toxtricity PFL 68
2 Munkidori TWM 95
2 Pecharunt ex SFA 39
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142

Trainer: 33
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
4 Poké Pad POR 81
4 Ultra Ball MEG 131
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
3 Binding Mochi PRE 95
4 Gravity Mountain SSP 177
3 Mega Signal MEG 121
2 Night Stretcher ASC 196
3 Judge POR 76

Energy: 11
11 Darkness Energy MEE 7

Total Cards: 60

What Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 83 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.

All 49 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 23 took Hero's Cape, 18 took Unfair Stamp and 8 took Secret Box. 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 9 core cards carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation. This deck walks through the change whole.

What Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Grass and Fighting, so they take DOUBLE damage from those types. 30 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly those types.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Festival Lead (Thwackey), Mega Lucario ex and Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama, 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 97 we track. The other 67 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 Darkness, and 29 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Alakazam / Dudunsparce, Dragapult ex / Dusknoir and Slowking, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity deck list?

There isn't one, so we built one for you: all 60 cards are written out further up this page. Across 49 tournament lists harvested between 11 August 2026 and 5 September 2026, 9 cards turn up in every single one, 36 slots out of 60. The remaining 24 change from player to player, with 74 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

49 lists, played across 46 different tournaments, harvested between 11 August 2026 and 5 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 49 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity?

With the whole core: 9 cards, 36 slots. Inside it, buy the 14 Trainer slots and the 11 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 Munkidori at 98 % and Buddy-Buddy Poffin at 96 %.

What beats Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity?

Its attackers are Weak to Grass and Fighting, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 30 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Festival Lead, Mega Lucario ex, Mega Lucario ex / Hariyama and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex, among others.

Will Mega Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity survive the next rotation?

Yes, whole: not one of the 9 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 Sharpedo ex / Toxtricity?

We have read 49 lists of it, which puts it 3rd of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 145 entries for it, 0.36 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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