Is the Pokémon ex battle deck worth it?

How the Mega Lucario ex battle deck actually plays

Here's the mechanism worth knowing about the ex line specifically. In the regular Pokémon TCG, most Pokémon give up one prize card when they're knocked out. An ex card is bigger and stronger, but it gives up two prizes when it falls, so a deck built around one is a deliberate trade: hit harder, but hand your opponent a faster path to winning if that Pokémon goes down. Mega Lucario ex is the anchor here, and the other fifty nine cards in this deck exist to support it, protect it, and make its big attacks land before the two prize risk catches up with you. That's also why this isn't a stack of loose cards, it's a complete, legal, sixty card deck that plays a real match the day it arrives. Kids are ruthless reviewers of anything that takes assembly, and a deck that needs research and trading before it works is a deck that sits in a drawer. This one skips that step. The dice handle the damage counters and the coin flip that a lot of attacks and abilities depend on, the deck box keeps the sixty cards from turning into the pile on the carpet, and the strategy sheet does the quiet job of explaining why the deck plays the way it does, so the next deck they build makes more sense too. The code card lets the same deck get played online, which matters on the days nobody wants to shuffle.