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The Pitch Black Build & Battle Box was released as a prelude to the Pitch Black expansion and offered people the opportunity to experience the cards before their general release on July 17, 2026. Tournaments were typically held on the weekends of July 4-5 and July 11-12, 2026.
Each box includes a ready-to-play 40-card deck plus four Pitch Black booster packs to potentially integrate useful cards into it. Each Pitch Black Build & Battle Box deck includes a promotional card, and an assortment of Pokémon, Trainer cards, and Energy cards themed around the promotional card. The possible promotional cards include Miraidon, Slowbro, Dhelmise, and Bastiodon. Pitch Black Build & Battle Boxes were categorized as Play Level 2.
The boxes could provide exclusive Non Holofoil versions of cards only available as Holofoil in Pitch Black booster packs: Miraidon, Spiritomb, Bastiodon, Silvally, and Voltaic 
Energy. Non Holofoil variants of Telepathic 
Energy from Perfect Order and Magnetic 
Energy from Chaos Rising were also made available.
Box structure
Each box included one of the following four different decks.
