Tera Box — Now Insane With Surging Sparks

Hello to all PokeBeach readers, this is Gabriel Semedo again with another Pokemon TCG article. This time, I want to talk about a new deck that I’m currently working on: the Tera Box deck.

I’ve been playing the previous format for a long time, starting with one of the first Regional Championships of the season, the Joinville Regionals, until Stellar Crown. The last tournament I played in this format was the Latin America International Championships (LAIC), so I almost didn’t take the time to explore the Surging Sparks cards. I only really started learning about all the cards in the new set as soon as I drew my last game on Day 2 of LAIC to secure my Top 128 finish in the competition. That achievement earned me 120 CPs and two Surging Sparks Brazilian booster boxes. And that was it — it was precisely through these two boxes that I began to familiarise myself with the new cards. I was literally opening boosters, reading, and learning about the new Pokemon and Trainer cards. Normally, I read through the cards in a new set up to a month before their release, so getting to know the cards right away in this manner was a different and really enjoyable experience.

After LAIC, I took some time to read through all of Surging Sparks, compiled a buylist of the cards I wanted to add to my collection, and began developing a deck idea I’d attempted before but hadn’t yet perfected. In fact, the Tera Box deck was initially something I was trying to prepare for use at LAIC, but it didn’t turn out as strong as I had hoped, which led me to stick with Regidrago VSTAR. However, it seems that with Surging Sparks, the missing pieces for my Tera Box deck have finally arrived, making this the perfect opportunity to present the idea in this article.

With at least 20 highly competitive decks in the current metagame, the format hardly needs a 21st viable deck. However, since Tera Box was already 90% developed before LAIC and I had shelved the idea due to missing pieces, the arrival of the perfect cards to complete this puzzle compelled me to revisit and refine it. I believe the deck’s concept is compelling enough to be worth sharing.

The Tera Box deck revolves around incorporating various Pokemon of different types with diverse attacks to provide as many answers as possible to the broad challenges of this metagame. Since it’s a list that embraces numerous Pokemon in a single deck, finding a perfect balance remains elusive. There are countless options to experiment with — I’ve already tested many, but there’s still a lot of ideas to explore.

The deck’s key mechanic involves using Teal Mask Ogerpon ex to accelerate Energy, which opens up opportunities for several strong attackers, the main one in my Tera Box list being Raikou V. The combination of Grass-type Ogerpon and Energy Switch is already a well-established mechanic in Regidrago VSTAR, and I’ve come to appreciate it. This mechanic avoids the uncertainty of using Electric Generator, which is typically used in Lightning-type focused decks, and it also circumvents the Lost Box strategy, as that approach struggles against Kyurem.

This concludes the public portion of this article.

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