The Darkrai ex and Weezing Deck is a Dark-type Offense Deck featuring Darkrai ex from the Space-Time Smackdown Set in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (PTCG Pocket). Read on for the complete list of cards in this deck, basic information on the deck, how to play the deck, and optimal matchups for it!

Darkrai ex Deck Guide

Deck Evaluation

Ace Pokemon						Tier Ranking
Darkrai ex Space-Time Smackdown (A2)			Weezing Genetic Apex (A1)
						Energy Type(s)
						F2P Friendly?
						❌
						Deck Difficulty
						★★
Deck Strengths
Can deal damage simply by attaching Energy. Synergizes with Weezing, which also deals incremental damage with its Gas Leak Ability. Does not share the same weakness to Weezing.
Deck Weaknesses
May struggle against Grass-types with low costing Attacks like Exeggutor ex.

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List of Cards

Darkrai ex Deck List
Pokemon Cards
Weezing ×2				Koffing ×2				Spiritomb ×1				Darkrai ex ×2
Trainer Cards
Koga ×2				Leaf ×2				Giant Cape ×2				Cyrus ×2
Potion ×1				Poke Ball ×2				Professor's Research ×2

Deck Building Guide

Packs Required for Darkrai ex and Weezing Deck

Packs Needed for Darkrai ex and Weezing Deck

How to Play Darkrai ex Deck

How to Play Darkrai ex Deck
Core Combos and Interactions Starting Hand Deck Strategies Game Phases

Darkrai ex Deck Core Combos and Interactions

Combo Card 1	Combo Card 2	Description
Darkrai ex	Weezing	・Build Darkrai in the Bench while dishing out chip damage with its Ability. ・You can focus on providing Darkrai Energy since most of your damage is from Abilities
Weezing	Koga	・Force opponents to shuffle their board around to prevent chip damage from Poison. ・Scoop up Weezing with Koga to prevent your opponent from getting points.

Best Starting Hand

Best Starting Hand

You can start off by filling your field with Koffings to get your Weezings up early so you can scoop them up with Koga when they get enough damage. Meanwhile, Darkrai ex can just sit in your bench getting energy while dealing chip damage to your opponent.

Other Good Starting Cards

Recommended Starting Hand

Spiritomb is a decent low-cost attacker and can punish decks that like to have a lot of Pokemon on their Bench like Mewtwo ex and Pikachu ex. You can use it to stall out for a bit while trying to get your key cards out.

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Darkrai ex Deck Strategies

Darkrai ex Deck Deck Strategies
Gas Leak and Nightmare Aura Cyrus and Spiritomb

Strategy 1: Gas Leak and Nightmare Aura

Gas Leak and Nightmare Aura

Weezing's Gas Leak and Darkrai ex's Nightmare Aura can deal significant chip damage on your opponent while also pressuring them to switch out. While Darkrai builds Energy, Weezing with the Giant Cape can be used to tank damage.

If you notice that your Weezing is getting low, you can scoop it back up to your hand with Koga. Do note that the Giant Cape will be discarded if you do so.

Strategy 2: Cyrus and Spiritomb

By dealing damage to all your opponent's Pokemon, Spiritomb can set up for Darkrai ex to finish off enemies by swapping out your opponent's low HP Pokemon.

Game Phases

Early Game

Key Card(s) Required
Step	Description
1	Prepare to build your board with Koffing and Weezing. Use the Poke Ball or Professor's Research to get Koffing if you don't have it your hand.
2	Leave Darkrai in your bench so you can deal chip damage while buiulding up its Energy.

Mid-Game

Key Card(s) Required
Step	Description
1	Make sure your opponents have some form of damage on them while pressuring them to swap their Pokemon around due to Poison.
2	You can tank more damage if you equip Weezing with the Giant Cape.
3	Once you see the perfect chance to pick your opponents off, swap Darkrai ex in by retreating weezing with Leaf or scooping it up with Koga.

Late Game

Key Card(s) Required
1	Once you see your opponent's Pokemon weakened, you can finish them off with Darkrai ex.
2	You can pull back damaged Pokemon with Cyrus if they decide to switch out.

Darkrai ex Deck Best and Worst Matchups

Best Matchups

Deck	Commentary
Mewtwo ex Decks	Type: ・Can disrupt Gardevoirs by forcibly swapping them out. ・Can outpace damage dealt once Psy Shadow is removed.

Worst Matchups

Deck	Commentary
Low Energy Cost Decks	Type: ・Grass decks can easily exploit Darkrai ex's weakness and heal off damage with Erika. ・Having low cost attacks means they can easily break your set-up.
Heal Decks	Type: ・Cards like Butterfree, Shaymin, and Florges can quickly heal off chip damage. While these are rogue decks, these can easily throw you off tempo if you're not prepared.

Overall Consistency

Darkrai ex and Weezing can pressure your opponent into switching out. Setting up with Spiritomb and following up with Cyrus is great synergy for picking off opponents. While not as great as the Weavile ex version, these cards can still work well together, but can be countered by decks that focus on healing.

How to Beat

Darkrai ex and the other cards in the deck can have trouble taking down an Exeggutor ex that can consistently attack for 60 to 100 damage for only one Energy. If you're not using a Grass deck, you can attempt to outpace it and hope you go second so that you do not fall behind on Energy attachments.

Darkrai ex Deck F2P & Substitutes

Darkrai ex Deck Card Substitutes

Card	Explanation
Koffing	・ More offensive option than Mythical Island Koffing, but can brick if you're unlucky with Professor's Research and Poke Ball.
Rocky Helmet	・ Additional Chip damage when Weezing gets attacked. ・ Can pressure your opponents into switching out giving Darkrai ex another target for its ability.
Shaymin	・ Can be easily splashed in place of Spiritomb for survivability. ・ Only here just for healing, which doesn't really advance the game state

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Darkrai ex Deck Other Viable Options

Card	Possible Cuts
Arbok Line	・Prevent your opponent from switching out making them more susceptible to Darkrai.
Rocky Helmet	・ More offensive option. ・ Additional Chip damage when Weezing gets attacked. ・ Can pressure your opponents into switching out giving Darkrai ex another target for its ability.
Sabrina	・ While Cyrus is preferred, you can swap Sabrina in if you're still trying to pull for him.
Shaymin	・Can be splashed in for more survivability, especially if you're using the Rocky Helmet.

F2P Darkrai ex Deck List

F2P Darkrai ex Deck List
Pokemon Cards
Ekans x2	Arbok x2	Koffing x2	Weezing x2
Darkrai ex x2
Trainer Cards
Poke Ball x2	Koga x2	Sabrina x2	Professor's Research x2
Leaf x2

This deck focuses more on dealing chip damage with Darkrai ex and Weezing and having Arbok be your main attacker. Corner can trap your opponent and succumb to Nightmare Aura and Poison.

This deck is cheaper as you can get most of it in Genetic Apex (Mewtwo). Leaf can also be replaced with X Speed for a more budget option.

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Meta Decks

S Tier Decks
Arceus ex	Giratina ex	-
A+ Tier Decks
Clodsire ex	Shining Revelry Charizard ex	Gholdengo and Dialga ex
Carnivine	Rampardos	Crobat
Magnezone and Skarmory	Exeggutor ex	Heatran
Charizard ex	Palkia ex	Darkrai ex
Weavile ex	Yanmega ex	Origin Forme Palkia
A Tier Decks
Lucario ex	Shining Revelry Pikachu ex	Beedrill ex
Leafeon ex	Garchomp ex	Probopass ex
Infernape ex	Pachirisu ex	Gyarados ex and Greninja
Pikachu ex	Dialga ex	Articuno ex
Gallade ex	Abomasnow	Celebi ex
B Tier Decks
Tinkaton ex	Pawmot	Glaceon ex
Bronzong	Tyranitar	Staraptor
Donphan	Starmie ex and Articuno ex	Dondozo
Wugtrio ex and Palkia ex	Mewtwo ex and Gardevoir	Golem
Pidgeot ex	Scolipede and Weezing	Garchomp
Porygon-Z	Arcanine ex	Dialga ex and Bastiodon
Meowscarada	-	-
C Tier Decks
・Blaine Deck ・Houndoom Deck ・Snorlax Deck ・Lucario Deck ・Pikachu ex and Raichu Deck ・Bibarel ex Deck ・Venusaur ex Deck ・Volkner Deck ・Togekiss Deck ・Aerodactyl ex Deck ・Alakazam and Jynx Deck ・Dragonite Deck ・Machamp ex Deck ・Blastoise ex Deck ・Marowak ex Deck ・Torterra Deck ・Empoleon Deck ・Mismagius ex Deck ・Volcarona and Arcanine ex Deck ・Wigglytuff ex Deck ・Gengar ex Deck ・Magnezone and Marshadow Deck

Off Meta Decks

Core Expansion	Decks
(A2)	・Darkrai ex and Weezing Deck ・Dialga ex and Lickilicky ex Deck ・Magnezone Deck ・Lake Trio Deck ・Rhyperior Deck
(A1a)	・Gyarados ex and Vaporeon Deck ・Mew ex and Weezing Deck ・Vaporeon and Articuno ex Deck
(A1)	・Aerodactyl and Dragonite Deck ・Articuno Deck ・Arbok Lock Deck ・Blastoise Deck ・Brock Deck ・Centiskorch and Moltres ex Deck ・Charizard Deck ・Cinccino Deck ・Dragonite and Weezing Deck ・Eeveelutions and Ditto Deck ・Exeggutor and Alakazam Deck ・Frosmoth Deck ・Gengar ex and Golbat Deck ・Grapploct and Pidgeot Deck ・Greninja Deck ・Greninja and Weezing Deck ・Gyarados Deck ・Kabutops Deck ・Kingler and Articuno ex Deck ・Koga Deck ・Lapras ex and Butterfree Deck ・Lapras ex Deck ・Lickitung and Primeape Deck ・Lickitung Deck ・Lt. Surge Deck ・Melmetal Deck ・Mewtwo ex and Weezing Deck ・Moltres Deck ・Omastar and Articuno ex Deck ・Persian and Mawile Deck ・Poliwrath Deck ・Primeape Deck ・Tentacruel and Greninja Deck ・Venusaur Deck ・Venusaur ex and Weezing Deck ・Victreebel and Exeggutor ex Deck ・Zapdos Deck ・Zapdos ex Deck

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