Wait — Where’s Tera Box?

[PMJ]

Hello PokeBeach readers! Isaiah here, and I am happy to be writing another article for you all!
Last time, I discussed my run at the Atlanta Regional Championships pretty in-depth, detailing my thought process on how I came to the conclusion to play the deck that I did, which was Archaludon ex / Brute Bonnet. In that article, I briefly discussed one of my favorite decks in the format, Tera Box, and how I ultimately decided to not play the deck despite investing a lot of time into preparing with it.
To my dismay, the deck ended up producing pretty poor results at Atlanta, with the highest finishing player being Nicholas Moffitt, who got 39th, which is certainly a good finish, but considering the high expectations that I think a lot of players had for the deck, this outcome was a bit...

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[MarlinRimes]

WHERE’S OMNIMAN, WHERE IS HE

 

[Dairebt_Lagorve]

More and more interested in a Ogerpon ex deck

 

[WillyCharizard]

Why comments are locked/not visible on the Joltik/Galvantula reveal post?

 

[Axolotlover]

Why comments are locked/not visible on the Joltik/Galvantula reveal post?

idk i was wondering that too

 

[Halmar3157]

Tera Box had many ways to respond to many common decks in the format, however there are other ways to do its job better. other decks like Gardevoir and Dragapult do not have the same amount of ways to adjust to different scenarios, but they don't need to. as they have enough ways to play around most decks they fight ,and they get their damage out so consistently that Tera Box just can't play around it, even with Noctowl being one of the most powerful search engines in the game they just either don't do the damage they need to, or they struggle against decks who have their plan set in stone beforehand. all in all I believe Tera Box is just trying to be so much, that in some cases it might not be anything at all.

 

[Claytonic]

my ex wife loved tera box

 

[Steen]

One of the big reasons it began to fall off in my opinion was more to do with its overall momentum relying on a sustained flow of Teal Dances and Jewel Seekers. Too often do Tera Boxes go for the Wellspring Crystal donk and either fail or succeed 50% of the time because they need to use Crispin and Sparkling Crystal specifically and no other combination unless they have an energy switch and a Teal Mask ex on bench. On top of this, most evolution decks have begun to adapt by using cards like Maractus and ACE Nullifier Genesect going first to block the donk entirely or force an unfavorable two prize and proceed to whittle down Pikachu or snipe Ogerpon and Latias. These blitz basic rulebox decks don't work as well anymore especially when Budew easily locks half of their consistency to set up.

 

[Cyndaquil987]

One of the big reasons it began to fall off in my opinion was more to do with its overall momentum relying on a sustained flow of Teal Dances and Jewel Seekers. Too often do Tera Boxes go for the Wellspring Crystal donk and either fail or succeed 50% of the time because they need to use Crispin and Sparkling Crystal specifically and no other combination unless they have an energy switch and a Teal Mask ex on bench. On top of this, most evolution decks have begun to adapt by using cards like Maractus and ACE Nullifier Genesect going first to block the donk entirely or force an unfavorable two prize and proceed to whittle down Pikachu or snipe Ogerpon and Latias. These blitz basic rulebox decks don't work as well anymore especially when Budew easily locks half of their consistency to set up.

I think it's more to do with the fact that in Atlanta, tank terapagos was very popular, plus the best two decks being dragapult and garde started to play unfair stamp to combat wellspring always needing Crispin or a eswitch combo each turn. Now that pult and Garde are not playing unfair stamp, and tank terapagos pickrate has fallen off a cliff, tera box should keep succeeding, even with the release of shaymin.