Gardevoir ex is still a respectable deck post-rotation, performing well in Regional Tournaments in Journey Together. Its draw engine helps you find the pieces you need to set up your game plan. With Gardevoir ex‘s ability to pull any number of Psychic Energy from the discard pile and attach them to your Pokémon, you can gain value and access your powerful attacks.
Decklist
Pokémon: 18
3 Ralts SVI 84
2 Kirlia SVI 85
2 Gardevoir ex SVI 86
2 Munkidori TWM 95
1 N's Zorua JTG 97
2 N's Zoroark ex JTG 98
1 Drifloon SVI 89
1 Scream Tail PAR 86
1 Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 56
1 Mew ex MEW 151
1 Fezandipiti ex SFA 38
1 Budew PRE 4
Trainer: 33
4 Iono PAL 185
2 Professor's Research JTG 155
2 Morty's Conviction TEF 155
2 Professor Turo's Scenario PAR 171
1 Jacq SVI 175
3 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144
2 Nest Ball SVI 181
2 Ultra Ball SVI 196
2 Earthen Vessel PAR 163
2 Rare Candy SVI 191
2 Counter Catcher PAR 160
2 Night Stretcher SFA 61
1 Super Rod PAL 188
1 Secret Box TWM 163
2 Bravery Charm PAL 173
1 Rescue Board TEF 159
2 Artazon PAL 171
Energy: 9
7 Psychic Energy SVE 13
2 Darkness Energy SVE 15How to Play
This deck relies heavily on Gardevoir ex‘s ability to attach Psychic Energy to your Pokémon, enabling their attacks and setting you up to win the game. Each time you attach Psychic Energy through Gardevoir ex, you place 2 damage counters on a Pokémon. You can use this to your advantage by moving those damage counters to the opponent’s Pokémon using cards like Munkidori.
Gardevoir ex
To get Gardevoir ex in play, you have to have Ralts in play, evolve it into Kirlia, and then evolve it into Gardevoir ex. However, we can skip the Kirlia step and go from Ralts to Gardevoir ex using Rare Candy, speeding up our strategy and allowing us to get value from Gardevoir ex faster.
Gardevoir ex is our main win condition, and the Psychic Embrace is an important part of this deck’s game plan. We can only pull Psychic Energy from the discard, so Darkness Energy is valuable in our hand and we’ll need to attach them normally without relying on any abilities.
Miracle Force is Gardevoir ex‘s primary attack, capable of knocking out basic Pokémon or severely damaging a threat, making it easier to finish off with damage counters.
Supporting Damage
Munkidori is a valuable card on the bench, capable of moving 3 damage counters from one of your Pokémon to one of your opponent’s Pokémon. You need to attach Darkness Energy to activate Adrena-Brain. Still, Munkidori can remain on the bench, providing support damage to either knock out their Benched Pokémon slowly or help finish off an Active Pokémon.
Scream Tail and Drifloon are Basic Pokemon that can deal a lot of damage based on the number of damage counters on them. We can boost their health using Bravery Charm, enabling us to put more damage counters and knock out a high-health target.
Draw Pokemon
We have to evolve Zoroark ex from Zorua, and from there, we can use its Trade ability to discard 1 card from our hand to draw 2 cards. This adds more resources and synergizes with Gardevoir ex if we discard a Psychic Energy.
Fezandipiti ex offers a draw value with Flip the Script when one of your Pokemon gets Knocked Out. Three card draw every time a Pokemon is knocked out means we can at least get 6 draws in one game if Fezandipiti ex is on the bench early into the game.
Mew ex‘s Restart ability acts as a draw engine, drawing you cards until you have 3 cards in your hand. So if you have a Mew ex on your Bench, you can use up the cards in your hand, drop to below 3 cards, and then draw extra cards to find what you need. Mew ex can also become an attacker with Genome Hacking, copying the opponent’s Active Pokemon’s attack. So this will be dependent on what the Pokemon has in the Active spot, but copying a high-damage attack can knock them out.
Mew ex has no retreat cost, so you can retreat it to the Bench whenever you want and have another Pokemon take its place.
Draw Supporters
Before you play Professor’s Research, make sure you’ve played all relevant cards in your hand before discarding everything to draw 7 cards.
Iono is a must-draw tool that could put you ahead of the opponent. It can also mess up their hand if they’re planning to make a certain play on their upcoming turn.
To play Morty’s Conviction, you have to discard a card from your hand, then you’ll draw a card for each Benched Pokemon on your opponent’s side. So it’s dependent on the number of Pokemon on your opponent’s Bench, but can be worth it if they have three or more.
Powerful Search tools
Earthen Vessel discards a card from your hand and lets you draw 2 Basic Energy, which makes it easier for you to start activating your attacks or to discard the Psychic Energy.
Jacq searches your deck for 2 evolution Pokemon, so you can find Pokemon like Kirlia, Gardevoir ex, and Zoroark ex, adding more consistency to your deck’s strategy by making sure you evolve your Pokemon as early as possible.
Secret Box lets you discard 3 cards from your hand to search your deck for an Item card, a Pokemon tool card, a Supporter card, and a Stadium card and put them into your hand.
Artazon searches your deck for Basic Pokemon with no rule box. So you can find Ralts, Zorua, Munkidori, Scream Tail, and Drifloon. There are a lot of choices to pick from, so depending on what’s missing from our hand and what we need as part of our strategy, we’ll choose the Pokemon to add to our hand.
