Amateur deckbuilder asking for advice on my Expanded deck

Deck Help (Expanded)

I don't really like having to buy individual cards for my decks, which is why I try to make as many decks as I can entirely out of my own collection. And because they're only from my collection, they tend to be a bit scrappy when it comes to strategy (and obviously they're all Expanded).

So I'd like, if you want, for a more experienced deckbuilder/player to take a look at my deck and tell me maybe where it falls short in terms of strategy. Not necessarily in terms of specific cards I'm missing, because I still want to keep it all from my own collection if possible. Here's the decklist:

Pokemon:

2x Pikipek SUM 106

2x Trumbeak SUM 107

1x Toucannon SUM 108

2x Woobat PAF 032

2x Swoobat PAF 033

3x Espurr BUS 059

2x Meowstic BUS 060

2x Mimikyu PAF 037

1x Mewtwo V PGO 030

1x Hisuian Typhlosion V ASR 053

2x Lillie's Clefairy ex JTG 056

Trainers:

1x Big Malasada

1x Energy Retrieval

1x Rescue Stretcher

1x Level Ball

1x Potion

1x Trekking Shoes

4x Switch

2x Cynthia

2x Bug Catcher

2x Lillie

4x Nemona (or Hau, or Hop, they all do the same thing)

Energy:

20x Basic Psychic Energy

I tried to design the deck so that there were two viable strategies one could build toward: either you could load up your hand with as many cards as possible for Meowstic's Hand Kinesis (10 damage per card in your hand), or you could load up your Bench for Clefairy's Full Moon Rondo (20 damage per benched Pokemon, yours and your opponent's, base damage 20). I also built a testing deck focused around Luxray RCL 062 (I can put that decklist somewhere else if you want to look at it); the problem is, my Clefairy deck is getting its butt consistently kicked by the testing deck. So I fear my Clefairy deck isn't strong enough, and it's probably not the most efficient. What does someone with more knowledge than me think: should I ditch one of the two win conditions and focus on only one, and what else could I do to improve the deck overall? Thanks!

Posted Jun 13, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC

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