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KSI's Gardevoir is the name of the deck used by Riley McKay, the Masters Division champion at the 2025 Pokémon World Championships. It is one of the 2025 World Championship Decks released on April 3, 2026.
Each deck comes with a two-sided playmat/poster, an event booklet, a Pokémon Trading Card Game Live code card, and a special Worlds 2025 deck box, pin, and coin. The cards included in the deck are not the exact prints used by McKay, but are the most recent, lowest-rarity print with any Holofoil removed. The cards have a unique card back and McKay's signature, and in place of the set symbol and rarity, they have a note stating, "This card cannot be used in official tournaments."
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Even before the event started, folks who follow the metagame were speculating about whether this would be Gardevoir ex’s last chance to win Worlds before rotating out of the Standard format—and in the hands of Riley McKay, this deck prevailed. The strategy: Pile on Energy and damage counters with the Psychic Embrace Ability, fling those damage counters onto your opponent’s Pokémon with Munkidori, snipe their bench with Scream Tail...and, especially when you’re facing down a dominant Dragon-type deck in the final match of the World Championships, call in Lillie’s Clefairy ex to impose Weakness for the win. Twice.
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The deck name references British YouTuber and musician KSI.[1] In an interview video released on December 18, 2025, Riley McKay mentioned that he would listen to KSI's song "Thick of It" as a way to prepare himself before every tournament.[2]
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