Raging Bolt ex Deck List & Guide

Our newest set, Temporal Forces, will introduce the Powerful Raging Bolt ex deck, which will dominate the meta. This guide presents the Decklist and Guide to this up-and-coming deck.

Contents

Raging Bolt ex Deck List

Key Cards In Deck

How To Play Raging Bolt ex deck

Final Verdict

This is the Raging Bolt ex Deck List.

Raging Bolt ex Deck List

• 3 Raging Bolt ex

• 4 Sandy Shocks ex

• 1 Koraidon

• 1 Mew ex

• 1 Squawkabilly ex

• 1 Radiant Greninja

• 4 Nest Ball

• 4 Ultra Ball

• 3 Earthen Vessel

• 2 Switch Cart

• 1 Super Rod

• 1 Prime Catcher

• 1 Pal Pad

• 4 Pokegear 3.0

• 1 Lost Vacuum

• 4 Trekking Shoes

• 2 Pokemon Catcher

• 2 Ancient Booster Energy Capsule

• 4 Professor Sada’s Vitality

• 1 Morty’s Conviction

• 4 Pokestop

• 5 Lightning Energy

• 6 Fighting Energy

The Key cards in the Raging Bolt ex deck are Raging Bolt ex, Sandy Shocks ex, Radiant Greninja and Professor Sada’s Vitality. These specific cards are essential to the running of this deck.

Key Cards In Raging Bolt ex

Raging Bolt ex

Raging Bolt ex is the main attacker of this deck. Raging Bolt ex is powerful because of its attack, Extreme Ascent, which provides the perfect attack that can deal varying amounts of damage. Extreme Ascent, allows the player to deal 70 damage for each energy card they discard from any Pokémon in play. The Extreme Ascent attack does require a lot of energy. Players can resolve this issue by using other Ancient cards.

Raging Bolt ex is an Ancient Pokemon card, granting access to cards such as Professor Sada’s Vitality, Ancient Booster Energy Capsule, and Earthen Vessel. Additionally, Raging Bolt ex possesses a potent ability. Raging Bolt ex also has a strong ability. The ability, Bursting Roar, allows the player to discard their hand and draw 6 cards, it could be beneficial at the beginning of a game.

Card Type / HP / Stage: Dragon / 240 / Basic

[C] Bursting Roar: Discard your hand and draw 6 cards.

[L][F] Climactic Descent: 70x damage. You may discard any amount of Basic Energy from your Pokémon. This attack does 70 damage for each card you discard in this way.

Weakness / Resistance / Retreat Cost: / / 3

Sandy Shocks ex

Sandy Shocks is included in this deck for its ability to attach fighting energy from the discard pile to itself. It can attach an energy per turn. You can only use this ability if the opponent has four or fewer prize cards. This card can quickly ramp up damage for Raging Bolt ex in the late game.

Sandy Shocks ex also comes with an attack, Earthen Spike. For 2 Fighting energy and colourless energy, Sandy Shocks does 200 damage. However, you can't use this attack next turn.

Card Type / HP / Stage: Fighting / 220 / Basic

Card Text: Magnetic Absorption

Once during your turn, if your opponent has 4 or fewer Prize cards remaining, you may attach a Basic Fighting Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon.

[F][F][C] Earthen Spike: 200 damage. During your next turn, this Pokémon can’t attack.

Weakness / Resistance / Retreat Cost: Gx2 / / 2

Radiant Greninja

Radiant Greninja is a vital card in this deck for its concealed cards ability. Concealed Cards, provides a quick and efficient way to discard energy cards and draw cards from your deck. Radiant Greninja pairs perfectly with Professor Sada's Vitality and Sandy Shocks ex, by helping them to accelerate energy.

Card Type / HP / Stage: Water / 130 / Basic

Card Text: Concealed Cards

You must discard an Energy card from your hand to use this Ability. Once during your turn, you may draw 2 cards.

[W][W][C] Moonlight Shuriken: Discard 2 Energy from this Pokemon. This attack does 90 damage to 2 of your opponent's Pokemon.

Weakness / Resistance / Retreat Cost: Lx2 / / 1

Professor Sada's Vitality

Professor Sada’s Vitality is essential for powering Raging Bolt. You can attach basic energy from the discard pile to two of your Ancient Pokemon. Instantly add 140 damage to the Raging Bolt attack. Additionally, Professor Sada’s Vitality allows you to draw three cards, enhancing its utility.

Card Text: Choose up to 2 of your Ancient Pokemon and attach a Basic Energy card from your discard pile to each of them. If you attached any Energy in this way, draw 3 cards

The Raging Bolt ex deck focuses on accelerating energy cards to Raging Bolt ex. This occurs because of Raging Bolt’s attack and its position as the main attacker of the set.

Raging Bolt ex is a new deck archetype that uses new cards in Temporal Forces. The main attacker is Raging Bolt ex because its attack, Extreme Ascent, deals 70 damage per energy you discard on any Pokemon in play. We power Raging Bolt’s attack using Professor Sada’s Vitality, and when your opponent has 4 prize cards or fewer, we utilize Sandy Shocks ex. To accelerate energy we require the energy cards in the discard pile. So we can use Radiant Greninja and item cards like Ultra Ball, Trekking Shoes and Earthen Vessel to discard energy cards throughout the game.

How Raging Bolt ex Deck Works

This deck also includes Koraidon as a single prize card attacker. Koriadon’s attack, Primordial Battering, does 30 damage for each Ancient Pokemon in play. This is a mainly Ancient deck, so you can easily find Koraidon dealing 120 damage. We include Mew Ex primarily as a last resort. Mew’s Restart ability provides an additional method to draw cards into your hand. As long as you have Mew, there is always the possibility of using Genome hacking, if necessary as an attack. Squawkabilly ex is there if you’d like to discard your hand on the first turn and use Motivate to accelerate additional energy to Pokemon in play for Raging Bolt ex.

Regarding other trainer cards, we have the Ace Spec Prime Catcher. Prime Catcher allows us to switch the opponent’s active Pokemon with a benched Pokemon and our active Pokemon with a benched one. In case we need our Supporter or other Pokemon cards from the discard pile, Pal Pad and Super Rod are there for recovery. Both Sandy Shocks and Raging Bolt have high retreat costs so we can use Switch Cart to switch benched Pokemon in for nothing. Lastly, Professor Sada's Vitality is crucial, so we have Pokegear 3.0 to help us find it.

This deck does heavily rely on Raging Bolt ex as the sole attacker. This Raging Bolt ex deck doesn’t offer much versatility against varying decks. However, the core deck has a good concept and can easily take down some top decks. As time goes on new additions will be made to make this deck the best it can be.

Raging Bolt ex is a new concept. The Raging Bolt ex deck is an early prototype and has imperfections. However, with a few adjustments, this deck can dominate the 2024 metagame. Thank you for reading Raging Bolt ex Deck List & Guide. We will update this article with new changes or better versions of this deck. Check out some of our other guides about the latest set, Temporal Forces.

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