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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the Sword & Shield era.
Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX is the card that defines CS3aC, a Simplified Chinese Pokémon TCG expansion in the Sword & Shield era. It was released on November 17, 2023 under the set code CS3aC and carries 184 catalog printings. Besides its headline VMAX, the card list leans on V cards that appear in several versions, among them Blissey V, Galarian Zapdos V, Shadow Rider Calyrex V and Single Strike Urshifu V, each printed four times across the set. Tyranitar V, Celebi V and Venusaur VMAX round out the cards that set the tone for the release.
CS3aC (洪荒演武 茂) was released November 17, 2023.
CS3aC (洪荒演武 茂) has 184 cards.
CS3aC (洪荒演武 茂) is part of the Sword & Shield era.
CS3aC's rarity ladder runs from commons and uncommons up through a deep chase tier of 78 cards, spread across SR, HR, RR, UR, RRR, CSR and CHR. Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX in HR leads the set by value, with Tyranitar V and Celebi V, both SR, in 2nd and 3rd place, followed by Venusaur VMAX in HR and Galarian Rapidash V in SR. These most valuable cards carry the weight of the set, since the top five alone hold 62 percent of its total card value, which makes a handful of pulls the real story of the chase.
As of October 2026, CS3aC holds the 3rd highest total card value of the 15 comparable Sword & Shield sets, about 1.9 times the era median, and 23rd across the 40 sets in the Simplified Chinese game. Its single most valuable card ranks 7th among the era's top cards, so the set's standing rests more on depth than on one dominant chase card. It followed CS2.5C, released September 29, 2023, and came before CS3.5C, released January 5, 2024, which holds less total value.
Written from market data as of October 22, 2026; the tables update live.
A full run of CS3aC means 184 catalog printings, of which 31 are priced, so the market picture rests on the cards that carry real value. With 62 percent of total card value in five cards, the cost of a complete set is driven by Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX, Tyranitar V and the other top cards, while the many commons and uncommons add little. The Simplified Chinese release date of November 17, 2023 puts it among the later sets of the era, which is worth knowing when building a card list for the whole run.