The heart of the EX Battle Stadium is its strategy guide. The strategy guide explains the strategy behind each of the two 60-card decks that come with EX Battle Stadium. You will learn tricks of the masters about things like when to use certain Trainer cards, how to choose a new Active Pokémon when one is Knocked Out, and more! The strategy guide also teaches you advanced ideas for deck building through the use of four "sideboards" that come with EX Battle Stadium.
These sideboards contain ten cards that you can swap with cards in your 60-card decks. One sideboard per deck improves that deck for 2-on-2 battles, and the other lets you tweak that deck's strength and defence. The strategy guide shows you how each sideboard changes the deck's overall strategy. Once you've mastered the lessons taught by the strategy guide, you can build your own custom decks by combining your own card collection with the cards from EX Battle Stadium.
EX Battle Stadium comes with two 60-
