Summary
- The Stellar Crown expansion for Pokemon TCG includes powerful new cards based on Gen 9 games with unique attacks and combo mechanics, especially for Stellar Tera mons.
- Stellar Crown offers various products like booster packs and boxes, the Elite Trainer Box, and Build and Battle sets for collecting and playing purposes.
- Competitive players and collectors can expect powerful pulls from Stellar Crown, including Ex Pokemon, rare cards, and Gold Cards. Some of the best pulls include all four Stellar Tera Pokemon, Illustration Rares, Ace Specs, and more.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet just concluded another World Championship in their lifespan, with many powerful critters enjoying their due time in the limelight, all while Pokemon TCG is still catching up on the Indigo Disk DLC. Still, Pokemon TCG has been enjoying a lot of great sets lately, and the upcoming Stellar Crown is yet another amazing addition to the game and quite alluring for collectors as well. Stellar Crown is based on the Indigo Disk DLC, and though not all of its content is found within this set, the expansion does include some past starters, Stellar Tera Ex Pokemon, and of course, the VGC's mascot for the DLC in the form of Terapagos. The Best War Games had the privilege of opening a few products from Stellar Crown, including an Elite Trainer Box and a booster box.
Pokemon TCG's new set features critters from all over the Terarium in The Indigo Disk, and some of the best cards one can pull include the various Stellar Tera Ex Pokemon. For these critters, the card game found an interesting way of adapting Stellar Terastallization from Gen 9 games, as they have access to very powerful attacks that cost three different energy types. With new card mechanics, Ace Specs, combos, and new Pokemon, Stellar Crown has a lot to offer.
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Every Product Available From Pokemon TCG's Stellar Crown Expansion Explained
There are a few key products to choose from when starting one's collection of Pokemon TCG's Stellar Crown expansion. These include:
- Booster packs, each containing 10 cards
- Booster boxes, each containing 36 Stellar Crown booster packs
- Build and Battle sets, each containing 4 Stellar Crown booster packs and a 40-card deck with one of four unique foil promo cards randomly selected between Drifloon, Bouffalant, Ledian, and Crabominable
- The Elite Trainer Box, containing eleven Stellar Crown booster packs, 65 card sleeves featuring Stellar Form Terapagos, 45 Pokemon TCG Energy cards, the player's guide to the Stellar Crown expansion, 6 damage-counter dice, a coin-flip die, condition markers for Burned and Poisoned, the Stellar Crown collector's box and four dividers, and finally a foil promo card for Noctowl
- 3-booster-pack blisters including a special Latias or Tinkaton card
- 1-booster-pack blisters including a special Horsea or Porygon-2 card and a Pokemon coin
- 1-booster-pack blisters including a Pokemon coin and three special cards for past or future Paradox Pokemon
Pokemon TCG Stellar Crown: The Best Pulls For Competitive Play and Collectors Explained
Fans can expect a lot of good cards in Pokemon TCG's latest expansion, as Stellar Crown has plenty of great pulls for competitive players and collectors alike. In fact, there are multiple cards from the set that are already being used in tournaments or are in theory-crafted decks, some dramatically enhancing their performance. There are multiple outliers that players should be happy to pull, and these include Ex Pokemon and rarer cards, like the coveted Stellar Tera mons, full art cards, illustration art rares, special illustration art rares, and Gold Cards.
- Stellar Form Terapagos Ex - Unsurprisingly, the expansion's mascot, Terapagos, is an extremely powerful card. On turn 1, Terapagos can deal up to 240 damage with Unified Beatdown provided that players have Double Turbo Energy, the new Area Zero Underdepths, and several benched Pokemon. However, it also shines when combined with other cards, such as the all-powerful Pidgeot Ex. This card is also available in its Gold Card form, which is one of the best pulls in the set.
- Stellar Tera Cinderace Ex - This Pokemon has an incredibly powerful 320-damage attack that costs 1 Fire Energy and 2 Energy of any type, with the drawback that this attack cannot be used again on the following turn. However, its Stellar Tera type means Cinderace Ex has another attack that costs 1 Fire, 1 Fighting, and 1 Dark, dealing 180 damage to any Pokemon. Combined with Neo Upper Energy, players don't even need actual Fighting and Dark Energies in their deck to use it.
- Stellar Tera Galvantula Ex - Galvantula got a major glow-up in Stellar Crown, with its Stellar Tera Ex version having a rather strong attack with Charged Web to counter popular decks, like Lugia Ex and Pidgeot Ex. It also comes with Fulgurite, which requires three different energy types and makes Galvantula Ex discard all energy attached to it, but it deals 180 damage and prevents the opponent from using items the next turn. This can work very well in current Scarlet and Violet Miraidon Ex decks or even with Blissey Ex.
- Hydrapple Ex - Debuting in the set as Dipplin's evolution, Hydrapple Ex has a whopping 330 HP, an ability that allows it to heal itself or other Pokemon while ramping up energy, and a powerful attack that can deal incredible damage when combined with Teal Mask Ogerpon Ex from Twilight Masquerade.
Other great pulls outside of competitive include:
- All regular Ex and Stellar Tera Ex Pokemon
- All three Ace Spec cards
- All 13 Illustration Rare cards (featuring Bulbasaur, Ledian, Lileep, Turtonator, Raboot, Squirtle, Crabominable, Joltik, Zeraora, Milcery, Meditite, Gulpin, and Archaludon)
- All 7 Full Art Pokemon cards (featuring Hydrapple Ex, Stellar Tera Cinderace Ex, Stellar Tera Lapras Ex, Stellar Tera Galvantula Ex, Dachsbun Ex, Medicham Ex, and Orthworm Ex)
- All 4 Full Art Trainer cards (Briar, Crispin, Kofu, and Lacey)
- All 4 Special Illustration Rare Pokemon cards (Hydrapple Ex, Stellar Tera Galvantula Ex, Dachsbun Ex, and Stellar Form Terapagos Ex)
- Both Special Illustration Rare Trainer cards (Briar and Lacey)
- All 3 Gold Cards (Stellar Form Terapagos Ex, Area Zero Underdepths, and Bravery Charm)
- Franchise
- Pokemon
- Original Release Date
- October 20, 1996
Pokemon TCG (Trading Card Game) is a collectible and strategy based card game based on Nintendo's Pokemon franchise. Two players face off against one another, battling one Pokemon at a time and attempting to knock them out to claim one of six prize cards. The cards have also become highly collectible with some in particular selling for thousands of dollars.
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