Recife Regional 2026 results: Ogerpon Meganium beats a Dragapult-heavy field

Dragapult brought the numbers to Recife, and a deck too rare to make the Day 2 meta table took the title. Victor Carreira Rodrigues of Brazil won the Recife Regional Championship on Saturday, October 3, with Ogerpon Meganium, beating a field of 1,074 players, according to Limitless TCG. Peru’s Fabrizio Inga Silva finished second with Dragapult.

The format was the same as at the Brisbane Regional: Temporal Forces to 30th Celebration.

The numbers: Dragapult everywhere, but not on top

Limitless lists 195 players in the second phase. These are the most played deck families among them:

Deck	Day 2 players	Top 8	Top 16
Dragapult (all builds)	53 (27.2%)	3	4
N’s Zoroark	31 (15.9%)	1	2
Slowking	15 (7.7%)	1	1
Alakazam	15 (7.7%)	0	2
Basic Box	15 (7.7%)	0	2
Mega Excadrill	9 (4.6%)	1	1
Rocket’s Honchkrow	4 (2.1%)	1	1

Ogerpon Meganium isn’t in the table at all. The table of the 15 most played families in Day 2 stops at three players, and the winning deck didn’t reach it.

Three things stand out:

• Dragapult cooled off. It was 35% of Day 2 in Brisbane and took the top six places there. In Recife it was 27% of Day 2 and took three of the Top 8: second, third and sixth.
• N’s Zoroark came back. In Brisbane, Zoroark was 9% of Day 2 and put no one in the Top 16. In Recife it was the second most played deck, at 15.9%, and Marco Cifuentes Meta of Chile took it to fourth.
• Small decks, big results. Rocket’s Honchkrow had four players in Day 2, and one of them, Jose Santos, made the Top 8. Mega Excadrill turned nine players into a fifth-place finish.

The winning list

Carreira Rodrigues’s deck has 21 Pokémon, 28 Trainers and 11 Grass Energy. It’s built on two evolution lines alongside a full set of Teal Mask Ogerpon ex:

• 4 Teal Mask Ogerpon ex
• 2 Chikorita, 2 Bayleef, 2 Meganium
• 2 Smoliv, 2 Dolliv, 2 Arboliva ex
• 1 Hoothoot, 1 Noctowl, 1 Fezandipiti ex, 1 Meowth ex and 1 Budew

The Supporters are four Lillie’s Determination and three Dawn, with two Boss’s Orders, one Lana’s Aid and one Briar. The rest of the Trainers are four Bug Catching Set, three Ultra Ball, three Forest of Vitality, two Energy Switch, two Night Stretcher, two Poké Pad and one Unfair Stamp.

It isn’t a one-off. Limitless groups identical decklists, and Carreira Rodrigues played exactly the same 60 cards at the Campinas Regional, where he finished 43rd. He stuck with the list, and it paid off in Recife. Limitless prices it at $43.76.

The runner-up: a list that has been around

Inga Silva’s Dragapult is a familiar build: 4 Dreepy, 4 Drakloak and 3 Dragapult ex, with two Munkidori, the Dunsparce and Dudunsparce package, four Crushing Hammer, and three Psychic, three Fire and two Darkness Energy. The same 60 cards were played by Dalten Cross at the Baltimore Regional, and by two other players in Recife, who finished 58th and 169th.

Third and sixth place shared a list too: Pedro Pertusi and Rafael Yuiti, both of Brazil, are linked to the same Dragapult decklist on Limitless.

The Recife Top 8

#	Player	Deck
1	Victor Carreira Rodrigues (Brazil)	Ogerpon Meganium
2	Fabrizio Inga Silva (Peru)	Dragapult
3	Pedro Pertusi (Brazil)	Dragapult
4	Marco Cifuentes Meta (Chile)	N’s Zoroark
5	Riguel Assis (Brazil)	Mega Excadrill
6	Rafael Yuiti (Brazil)	Dragapult
7	Rafael Neto (Brazil)	Slowking
8	Jose Santos (Brazil)	Rocket’s Honchkrow

Brazilian players took six of the eight spots and ten of the Top 16. Chile had four players in the Top 16, and Peru and Argentina one each.

What Recife means for players in the Philippines

No Filipino players are listed in Recife’s Day 2. The results still matter here: 30th Celebration cards were legal in Recife, just as they are at local events now, and the Ultra Ball League Season 1 starts its run of Standard events on October 10.

1. Dragapult is still the most played deck, but it can be beaten. Brisbane made it look unstoppable. Recife shows a field that has learned to play against it, with Zoroark, Slowking, Excadrill and Honchkrow all making the Top 8 alongside it.
2. Don’t ignore the off-meta decks. The eighth-place deck had four players in Day 2, and the winning deck had too few to make the table. If your local meta is all Dragapult, a well-practised deck that few people expect can go a long way.
3. Meowth ex is in both finalists’ lists. Both the winning Ogerpon Meganium and the runner-up Dragapult play one copy. Pokémon.com says a foil Meowth ex comes in the Deck Crafter’s Collection, out October 23 (see our October releases guide).
4. Practise one list. Carreira Rodrigues played the same 60 cards at two Regionals. Repetition works.

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