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The fourth most played deck in Standard attacks with Pokemon that never touch the board. We walk through a 7-1 tournament list and explain how the topdeck engine actually plays.

The third most played deck in Standard is also one of the cheapest. We walk through a second place tournament list card by card and explain how the Night Joker engine actually plays.

We counted every decklist from five large online events, 792 players in all. Dragapult leads at nearly 20%, the Mega era decks fill the top tables, and the old format's pillars are at zero.

A tournament winning Dragapult ex list explained card by card, how a typical game unfolds, and reproducible matchup win rates from the TCGSeek battle engine.

The hub for our deck building series: deck construction rules, ratios that make decks run, the current archetypes, and how to learn from tournament lists.