Destined Rivals Build & Battle Box (TCG)

Destined Rivals Build & Battle Box
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The Destined Rivals Build & Battle Box was released as a prelude to the Destined Rivals expansion and offered people the opportunity to experience the cards before their general release on May 30, 2025. Tournaments were typically held on the weekends of May 17-18 and May 24-25, 2025. Boxes could also be purchased from stores in the Prerelease Program from May 17, 2025.

Each box included a ready-to-play 40-card deck plus four Destined Rivals booster packs to potentially integrate useful cards into it. Decks comprised two of four possible groups of cards, including a promotional card, as well as 17 basic Energy cards and an assortment of Trainer cards. The possible promotional cards included Ethan's Typhlosion, Misty's Gyarados, Team Rocket's Mimikyu, and Team Rocket's Tyranitar. Destined Rivals Build & Battle Boxes were categorized as Play Level 2.

The boxes could provide exclusive Non Holofoil versions of cards only available as Holofoil in Destined Rivals booster packs: Ethan's Typhlosion, Misty's Gyarados, and Team Rocket's Tyranitar.

Box structure

Section 1

Each box included two of the following four different groups of Pokémon cards; one group always coincided with the enclosed promotional card.

Ethan's Typhlosion group No. Mark Card Type Quantity 032/182 Ethan's Cyndaquil 4× 033/182 Ethan's Quilava 2× 034/182 Ethan's Typhlosion 2× 153/182 Ethan's Adventure Su 2× 191/198 Rare Candy I 1× 155/159 Professor's Research [Professor Sada (JTG)] Su 1× Misty's Gyarados group No. Mark Card Type Quantity 046/182 Misty's Staryu 3× 047/182 Misty's Starmie 2× 048/182 Misty's Magikarp 1× 049/182 Misty's Gyarados 1× 050/182 Misty's Lapras 1× 181/198 Nest Ball I 1× 183/193 Great Ball I 1× 188/193 Super Rod I 1× 187/191 Surfer Su 1× 146/159 Brock's Scouting Su 1×

Team Rocket's Mimikyu group No. Mark Card Type Quantity 125/182 Team Rocket's Koffing 4× 126/182 Team Rocket's Weezing 2× 127/182 Team Rocket's Murkrow 2× 170/182 Team Rocket's Archer Su 1× 177/182 Team Rocket's Proton Su 1× 194/198 Switch I 1× 196/198 Ultra Ball I 1× 182/182 Team Rocket's Energy E 1× Team Rocket's Tyranitar group No. Mark Card Type Quantity 094/182 Team Rocket's Larvitar 4× 095/182 Team Rocket's Pupitar 2× 096/182 Team Rocket's Tyranitar 2× 175/182 Team Rocket's Great Ball I 2× 139/142 Lacey Su 1× 191/198 Rare Candy I 0-1× 182/182 Team Rocket's Energy E 2×

Section 2

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

Trainer cards
No.	Mark	Card	Type	Quantity
198/198		Youngster	Su	0-2×
144/162		Buddy-Buddy Poffin	I	0-2×

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