Two printings, one spotlight: Terapagos ex from Stellar Crown meets Terapagos ex from Prismatic Evolutions . All stats below are the card...
Two printings, one spotlight: Terapagos ex from Stellar Crown meets Terapagos ex from Prismatic Evolutions. All stats below are the cards' own printed data — no opinions until the verdict.
Terapagos ex (Stellar Crown)
Terapagos ex — Basic Colorless Pokémon from Stellar Crown (card #128 of 142), 230 HP, Double Rare.
Unified Beatdown — Cost: Colorless + Colorless. Damage: 30×. If you go second, you can't use this attack during your first turn. This attack does 30 damage for each of your Benched Pokémon.
Crown Opal — Cost: Grass + Water + Lightning. Damage: 180. During your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from Basic non-Colorless Pokémon.
Weakness: Fighting ×2. Resistance: none. Retreat Cost: 2.
Related reading: Terapagos ex Deck Guide: Colorless Tera Attackers and Bench Protection — keep it open for when you finish this one.
Terapagos ex (Prismatic Evolutions)
Terapagos ex — Basic Colorless Pokémon from Prismatic Evolutions (card #92 of 131), 230 HP, Double Rare.
Unified Beatdown — Cost: Colorless + Colorless. Damage: 30×. If you go second, you can't use this attack during your first turn. This attack does 30 damage for each of your Benched Pokémon.
Crown Opal — Cost: Grass + Water + Lightning. Damage: 180. During your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from Basic non-Colorless Pokémon.
Weakness: Fighting ×2. Resistance: none. Retreat Cost: 2.
At a Glance
The two printings match on hp, type, stage, and weakness — a true reprint, where only set, art, and rarity context separate them.
Collector context: Terapagos ex (Stellar Crown): Double Rare, a main-set printing of a 175-card set. Terapagos ex (Prismatic Evolutions): Double Rare, a main-set printing of a 180-card set. Two homes, two binder stories — the data above is how you choose between them with open eyes.
Game-text check, straight from the data: the two printings' attacks and Abilities are identical — this is a pure reprint decision: art, set, and rarity context.
The Verdict
Terapagos ex appears in its home set, Stellar Crown, and again in Prismatic Evolutions — the Tera turtle was popular enough to anchor two sets' chase pools in one era. Both printings bring the same Bench-scaling Tera package to Colorless decks (confirm the numbers in the data below). The Stellar Crown print is the original for set collectors; the Prismatic print rides the Eevee set's enormous demand.
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