Brilliant Stars Build & Battle Box (TCG)

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Brilliant Stars Build & Battle Box
SWSH9 Build Battle Box.jpg
Box art
Expansion Brilliant Stars
Types used FireFightingDarknessColorless

The Brilliant Stars Build & Battle Box was a special product given to participants at the start of Prerelease Tournaments for the Brilliant Stars expansion. Each box contained a random selection of predetermined cards designed to enhance the experience of the Limited format events in which they were initially distributed. Unofficial Prereleases were typically held on the weekends of February 12-13 and 19-20, 2022; select stores were permitted to sell the boxes starting February 12. Two boxes were also included in each copy of the Brilliant Stars Build & Battle Stadium, which was released on March 11, 2022.

Build & Battle Boxes were updated beginning with this expansion—17 basic Energy cards were added to the previous 23-card Evolution pack, resulting in a ready-to-play 40-card deck. Although players could begin using the deck straight away, they were encouraged to modify the deck using cards from the four packaged Brilliant Stars booster packs. Each box also came with a deck-building tip sheet, and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. Decks included one of four specially stamped Prerelease cards for the expansion: Moltres, Lucario, Liepard, and Bibarel.

Boxes could also provide exclusive Non Holofoil versions of cards only available as Holofoil in Brilliant Stars booster packs: Torterra, Moltres, Infernape, Lucario, Bibarel, and Professor's Research.

Box structure

Section 1

Each box included two of the following four different groups of Pokémon cards, with one group always coinciding with the Prerelease promo.

Moltres group
No. Mark Card Type Quantity
024/172 F Chimchar Fire
025/172 F Monferno Fire
026/172 F Infernape Fire
021/172 F Moltres Fire
144/172 F Magma Basin St


Lucario group
No. Mark Card Type Quantity
078/172 F Riolu Fighting
079/172 F Lucario Fighting
116/172 F Castform Colorless
124/163 E Energy Recycler I
150/172 F Ultra Ball I

Liepard group
No. Mark Card Type Quantity
090/172 F Purrloin Darkness
091/172 F Liepard Darkness
009/172 F Burmy Grass
011/172 F Mothim Grass
140/172 F Friends in Galar Su


Bibarel group
No. Mark Card Type Quantity
120/172 F Bidoof Colorless
121/172 F Bibarel Colorless
006/172 F Turtwig Grass
007/172 F Grotle Grass
008/172 F Torterra Grass
141/172 F Gloria Su


Section 2

Each box also included six random Supporter cards from the following, with no more than two copies of a particular card.

Supporter cards
No. Mark Card Type Quantity
121/163 E Bruno Su 0-2×
128/163 E Korrina's Focus Su 0-2×
143/203 E Copycat Su 0-2×
130/172 F Barry Su 0-2×
138/172 F Cynthia's Ambition Su 0-2×
147/172 F Professor's Research Su 0-2×



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