Discard all your Energy for massive damage in the Pokemon TCG.

The Festival Lead deck is an entirely single-Prize deck designed to swiftly navigate powerful ex and V Pokemon.

It focuses on the Festival Lead Ability, supported by Boom Boom Grove and the Festival Grounds Stadium.

Pokemon TCG Thwackey Dipplin Rabsca

Festival Lead Deck List

The Festival Lead deckrelies on a specific synergy between several different cards.

This includes Thwackey, Dipplin, and Festival Grounds.

Thwackey

Thwackey is the maindraw enginein the Festival Lead deck.

Raging Bolt, Ogerpon, and Sandy Shocks in front of two Pokemon cards for Ogerpon ex and Raging Bolt ex

Omnisearch is a rare ability.

As a result,being able to utilize Thwackey each turn is vital.

It is also easily accomplished since Dipplin is the main attacker in this deck.

The Special Art Rare Iono From Paldea Evolved in the Pokemon TCG.

This unique Ability allows Pokemon that have it touse an attack twice.

This deck utilizesDipplinbecauseit can deallarge amounts of damagecompared to the other Pokemon sharing this Ability.

Swirlix only places two damage counters on one of your opponents Pokemon.

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Festival Lead Dipplin does20 damage for each of your Benched Pokemon.

This allows it to deal up to 100 damage with a full Bench.

For Pokemon with a Weakness for Grass, like Charizard ex and Roaring Moon ex, this is doubled.

Thwackey from the Twilight Masquerade expansion of Pokemon TGC

Festival Grounds

Festival Grounds is essentialfor this deck to work.

In order for Dipplin to use Festival Lead,Festival Grounds must be in play.

Festival Grounds can actually be a helpful counter for some decks that do focus on Special Conditions.

Dipplin from the Twilight Masquerade of Pokemon TCG

This includes those such as theKlawf Hisuian Electrode deck.

This is especially true for those on the Bench.

Rabsca protects your Benched Pokemonfrom attacks as well as the effects of those attacks.

Festival Grounds from the Twilight Masquerade expansion of Pokemon TCG

However, Rabscaprotects against all attacks and effectsin a single Pokemon, saving you Bench space.

This allows you to have more Pokemon in play at once.

In the ideal game, youll be able to secure a Knock Out on your second turn.

Rabsca from the Pokemon TCG

This involves a variety of deck searches and drawing, however, asyoull need several evolved Pokemonin play.

If you do not have Festival Grounds in play, you will not be able to use Dipplins Ability.

One example of this is Noivern ex.

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This attack also does 140 damage.

This will Knock Out every Pokemon played in the Festival Lead deck.

There are also many Pokemon who have attacks that can discard a Stadium in play.

Image of the card Roaring Moon ex in Pokemon TCG, with art by Ryota Murayama

Blissey ex with Cheren and Munkidori

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