How to Play Mew EX in Pokemon TCG Live

Published Sep 25, 2026, 3:55 PM EDT Cat Webling is a Kansas-based writer with six years of experience in the gaming industry in a range of roles from editor and journalist to narrative writer. She enjoys cozy gaming on PC and Nintendo Switch 2, especially if the game includes cute animals. Mew is one of the Pokemon franchise's most popular characters, standing tall alongside other legendary Pokemon to be a meaningful part of the story of the Pokemon world. The 30th anniversary expansion for Pokemon TCG Live offers players a chance to use Mew in new and exciting ways, in a deck built around its unique and interesting ability. The Mew EX deck was designed by the developers of Pokemon TCG Live and is formatted for standard play. It's a fun high-strategy deck that's usable for both competitive and casual play, and is great for more advanced players wanting to try a more challenging setup. How The Mew EX Deck Works Mew EX is a basic psychic Pokemon with 160 HP. It's weak to dark types and resistant to fighting types. It has an attack called Teleportation Burst, which does 30 damage adn gives you the option to switch Mew EX with one of your benched Pokemon. Teleportation Burst can be useful for getting a higher HP Pokemon into the active to withstand some hits, especially if you're up against a dark type deck. Ability: Memory Helix What makes Mew EX a really interesting main Pokemon is its ability, Memory Helix. This ability lets Mew use any of the attacks of your benched Pokemon, which can be an incredibly powerful tool when played strategically. It's got one caveat, though: Mew EX needs to have the appropriate energy amounts and types for the attack it wants to use. The Deck Mew EX's deck focuses on priming your bench for solid Memory Helix swings by accelerating evolution and energy. Pokemon Items Supporters Energy 1 Lillie's Clefairy EX 3 Buddy Buddy Poffin 1 Black Belt's Training 3 Prism Energy 3 Mew EX 1 Energy Recycler 2 Boss's Orders 1 Dark Energy 2 Deino 1 Night Stretcher 2 Dawn 4 Metal Energy 1 Zweilous 2 Poke Pad 1 Hilda 4 Psychic Energy 2 Hydreigon EX 3 Rare Candy 4 Lillie's Determination 1 Fezandipiti EX 1 Scramble Switch 1 Team Rocket's Petrel 1 Genesect EX 4 Ultra Ball 3 Steven's Beldum 2 Steven's Metang 3 Steven's Metagross EX 1 Latios 1 Mega Latias EX 1 Meowth EX What Are The Key Pokemon For Mew EX? The Mew EX deck is built around a few key alternate attackers; keeping these guys on your bench and more protected from danger can make it easier to load them up with energy, giving you plenty of options that can match any move from your opponent. Steven's Metagross EX The Steven's Metagross EX line has been popular since it became the focus of its own Rival Battle Deck in 2025. This version of the Metagross line is all metal; Steven's Metagross EX evolves from Steven's Metang, which evolves from Steven's Beldum. They're all weak to fire types and resistant to grass types. Steven's Metagross EX has 340 HP and an attack, Metal Stomp, that does 200 damage for one metal and two colorless energy. This makes it a pretty solid heavy hitter for a two-prize Pokemon. What makes Steven's Metagross EX so useful, though, is its ability, X-Boot. Once per turn, you can use X-Boot to search your deck for a metal and a psychic energy and attach them to your metal and psychic Pokemon in play however you'd like to. This ability stacks, which means the more Metagrosses you have in play, the more energy you can get out in one turn. Use X-Boot to power up Mew EX and swing with Metal Stomp for a quick and dirty attack that can easily take out lower HP threats and easy targets like Meowth EX. Mega Latias EX Mega Latias EX is a basic Dragon type Pokemon with 280 HP. Like most dragon Pokemon, it's got no weaknesses or resistances. It has two attacks: Strafe, for one colorless energy, does 40 damage and lets you switch Latias with one of your benched Pokemon. Illusory Impulse, for one fire, one psychic, and one colorless energy, does 300 damage, but it discards all energy from Latias. Again, this is a great Pokemon to have out for Memory Helix. Because it's a basic, it can go directly onto the bench. With its relatively high HP, it can be a great backup attacker if you need to pull Mew EX back. It also has a great supporter Pokemon that can make it even more effective (See Latios in the table below). Don't confuse Mega Latias EX with regular Latias EX. The non-Mega version of the card is a psychic type that's often included in decks for its Skyliner ability, which makes retreat free for all your basic Pokemon in play. While it's a good card, it's not as useful in this deck, as its attack, Eon Blade, restricts you from being able to attack on the next turn. Hydreigon EX (Tera) Hydreigon is another Stage Two Pokemon; it's a dark type that evolves from Zweilous, which evolves from Deino. This version of Hydreigon EX is a Tera Pokemon, meaning that when it's on the bench, it can't be targeted by your opponent's Pokemon doing damage, making it harder to hit and easier to keep as a backup attacker. It has 330 HP and two attacks: Crashing Headbutt costs one dark and one colorless energy, does 200 damage, and discards the top three cards of your opponent's deck. Obsidian costs one psychic, one dark, one metal, and one colorless energy. It does 130 damage to the active Pokemon and 130 damage each to two of your opponent's benched Pokemon. While Obsidian is an expensive attack, it can also be great for big multi-prize turns. Both of these attacks have the advantage of being disruptive in the extreme for your opponent, which can easily give you the win if you time the attack appropriately to take out bigger attackers before they evolve or remove key support Pokemon like the Lunatone/Solrock draw engine. This version of Hydreigon EX will be rotating out in April with all of the other H block cards, so it may be worth considering a replacement for it. Unfortunately, the non-Tera version of Hydreigon EX doesn't work nearly as well for this deck, as it requires a massive amount of energy to attack and features none of the disruptive elements of the Tera version. Other Pokemon The other Pokemon in the Mew EX deck were all selected for their unique abilities. Pokemon Basic Stats Ability Use Latios (MEG) Basic dragon type, 130 HP, no weaknesses or resistances Lustrous Assist: Once per turn when you move Mega Latias EX into the active spot from the bench, you can move any amount of energy from any of your benched Pokemon to Mega Latias EX. If Mew EX needs to switch into Mega Latias EX, you can power up Latias immediately rather than having to wait three turns. Lillie's Clefairy EX Basic psychic type, 190 HP, weak to metal type Pokemon Fairy Zone: This makes your opponent's dragon type Pokemon weak to psychic type Pokemon. This is largely for the Dragapult EX match up; Mew hits twice as hard if Clefairy is in play. Genesect EX Basic metal type, 220 HP, weak to fire type Pokemon, resistant to grass type Pokemon Metallic Signal: Once per turn, you can search your deck for up to two evolution metal Pokemon and put them in your hand. This helps you evolve your Steven's Metagross EX line to gain access to X-Boot and Metal Stomp quickly. Meowth EX Basic colorless Pokemon, 170 HP, weak to fighting type Pokemon Last-Ditch Catch: When you play Meowth EX to your bench from your hand, you can search for a Supporter in your deck and put it into your hand. This is a staple card in many decks to help with setup or resetting a dead hand through Lillie's Determination. Fezandipiti EX Basic dark type Pokemon, 210 HP, weak to fighting type Pokemon Flip the Script: Once per turn, if one of your Pokemon was knocked out last turn, you can draw three cards. Again, this is a staple card in many decks; if helps to recover from a knock out, especially in two-prize-heavy decks like Mew EX. What Are The Key Trainers For Mew EX? This deck is surprisingly light on Trainer cards, with no stadium cards at all and no Pokemon tools. Instead, it focuses heavily on search, evolution, and energy efficiency. Scramble Switch, the deck's ACE SPEC, allows you to switch your active Pokemon with one from the bench, moving any amount of energy from your old active Pokemon to the new one in the process. This allows you to preserve energy for the high-cost attackers on the board. Rare Candy is a deck staple that allows you to skip the Stage One version of a Pokemon and evolve it directly into the Stage Two if you've got it in hand. This gets you to your Hydreigon EX and Steven's Metagross EX much faster, especially if Genesect EX is in play. Prism Energy provides an energy of any type to the basic Pokemon it's attached to, making it perfect for this type-varied deck and making it easy to stack Mew EX with the correct energies for multiple attacks at once. There are also some more staple Trainers that build out the strategy of the deck. Hilda and Dawn both help you find evolution Pokemon when you need them; Hilda also lets you find your Prism energy. Lillie's Determination gives you hand reset. Team Rocket's Petrel lets you find the Trainer card you need in the moment. Boss's Orders gives you control over what's in the active for you to target. Buddy-Buddy Poffin, Ultraball, and Poke Pad all help you find your Pokemon. Energy Recycler and Night Stretcher bring energy that was discarded or lost with a knock out back into play. Black Belt's Training helps you hit harder against your opponent's EX Pokemon. Your goal with Mew EX is to establish one or two strong attackers on your bench so you use Memory Helix to attack through Mew EX. The biggest benefit to this strategy is that you can use three-prizer attacks with less risk. If you can, open with something small like Beldum or Deino in the active, putting Mew on your bench. You want to establish Metagross as quickly as possible, so get down a Beldum and look for Genesect EX or Hilda (which can grab you a Prism Energy to put on Mew) and Rare Candy. Get Hydreigon or Latias onto your bench as quickly as you can, load up Mew with the appropriate energy, and start swinging. From there, it's a game of balance. You'll need to figure out how much of a hit Mew can take before you need to retreat into something with more HP. Try to keep Metagross out of the active if you can so that you can keep your energy acceleration. Don't be afraid to hard retreat with energy discards, either; you have ways to get them back. Keep swinging, pulling out a second Mew if you need to, and try to go for multi-prize turns as often as you can. If you can get set up quickly enough, Mew EX is a devastating deck to most of the current meta.