This is the most fundamental Pokemon for this deck’s strategy. Trainers (29)3x Boss's Orders ( SWSH2 #154)3x Red and Blue ( COE #202)2x Guzma and Hala ( COE #193)2x Professor's Research ( SWSH35 #62)4x Tag Call ( COE #206)4x Quick Ball ( SWSH1 #179)4x CARD NOT FOUND2x Big Charm ( SWSH1 #158)2x Air Balloon ( SWSH1 #156)2x Viridian Forest ( TEU #156)1x Dark City ( UNM #193)Įnergy (12)10x Darkness Energy ( XY #138)2x Capture Energy ( SWSH2 #171) Pokemon (19)2x Galarian Moltres V ( SWSH6 #97)2x Weavile-GX ( UNM #132)2x Sneasel ( UNM #131)2x Silvally-GX ( COE #184)2x Type: Null ( UNM #183)2x Mewtwo and Mew-GX ( UNM #71)1x Greninja and Zoroark-GX ( UNB #107)1x Mega Sableye and Tyranitar-GX ( UNM #126)1x Umbreon and Darkrai-GX ( UNM #125)1x Guzzlord ( COE #136)1x Marshadow ( UNB #81)1x Dedenne-GX ( UNB #57)1x Crobat V ( SWSH3 #104) Also keep in mind that Red and Blue together with Galarian Moltres’ Ability Direflame Wings allows you to put up to three additional Darkness Energy per turn onto the field. This deck is able to deal satisfactory damage from the second turn, while you gather Darkness Energy to use Dark Moon GX. It is important to remember that Mega Sableye and Tyranitar-GX can take three Prizes by Knocking Out Dedenne-GX, Mawile-GX, and Oricorio-GX. It is also worth remembering that although we are living in the Pokemon VMAX era, there are a lot of Pokemon-GX among the main decks of the format. If you manage to use this attack on the second or third turn, your opponent may concede the game. The arrival of Galarian Moltres V allows Dark Box to have more Darkness Energy on the field, allowing you to use the very strong Umbreon and Darkrai-GX’s Dark Moon GX attack.

After all, this is the function of Mewtwo and Mew-GX, isn’t it? But while these Pokemon have bad attacks, if we combine all these attacks into a single Pokemon, then we’ll have a reasonably strong Pokemon. Another example is Greninja and Zoroark-GX, which despite being a straightforward card, the damage of its attack that was previously something respectable in the past is not as strong anymore. These attacks made sense two years ago, but now have lost many targets as Pokemon-GX become increasingly extinct in the Standard format. Umbreon and Darkrai-GX deals 60 damage to a Pokemon-GX on the Bench, while Mega Sableye and Tyranitar-GX can take an extra Prize if it Knocks Out a Pokemon-GX. At first, it’s easy to notice that the Darkness-type Tag Team Pokemon-GX are a little outdated and some effects don’t make as much sense as they used to. The strategy remains the same, with Weavile-GX to move Darkness Energy cards between your Tag Team Pokemon-GX. A lot of time has passed and it looks like with about two months to go before the upcoming rotation, Dark Box is finally competitive in Standard. If a list was consistent, then it didn’t have enough power. Consistency and speed issues were reasons Dark Box was not so good. The concept has been around since Worlds 2019, but it has never been one of the best decks of the format. In my article I explain in detail all the choices I made in my final list. Because of that, I decided to explore Dark Box in order to arrive at a list adapted for the current Standard metagame. The big challenge in exploring Dark Box is not knowing if the deck is able to beat Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX, but learning and building a list capable of winning several other matchups without spoiling the positive matchup that the deck already has against Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX. Even with weak and outdated attacks for the current format, it is possible to take advantage of some interesting attacks from these Pokemon. After testing with options like Malamar VMAX, Crobat VMAX and even Grimmsnarl VMAX, I felt the best version was the classic Dark Box with Darkness-type Tag Team Pokemon-GX. With too many Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX in the format, I decided to give some Dark Box variants a try. This time I’m going to talk about an old acquaintance, the Dark Box deck with the classic Darkness-type Tag Team Pokemon-GX squad. Hello readers! It’s me again, Gabriel Semedo, bringing you another Pokemon TCG article.

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