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28 master set cards
— official cards
Market coverage is incomplete
NM only
7 of 28 cards priced
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Slots and binder pages, variant families, where the cost sits, the most valuable slots and how it compares with the Diamond & Pearl era.
LP and up
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MP and up
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HP and up
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DMG and up
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The variants are what turn the Entry Pack master set from a 28-card checklist into 37 slots: the Japanese Pokémon TCG set carries about 1.3 slots per card, with 32 normal slots and 5 holo slots between them. That makes it a small project from the Diamond & Pearl era, released October 27, 2006, and the whole master set checklist fits in 3 double-sided binder pages at nine cards a side.
Most of the extra slots in the Entry Pack master set come from print runs rather than finishes. Normal Unlimited is the largest family at 18 slots, followed by Normal 1st Edition at 8 and a plain Normal family at 6. The holos split the same way, with 3 Holo Unlimited slots and 2 Holo 1st Edition slots. For a collector, a 1st Edition slot means the card from the earliest printing of the set, marked as such, and it sits beside the Unlimited copy of the same card in the binder.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
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| Normal Unlimited | 18 | 2 | 15% |
| Normal 1st Edition | 8 | 0 | — |
| Normal | 6 | 0 | — |
| Holo Unlimited | 3 | 3 | 32% |
| Holo 1st Edition | 2 | 2 | 53% |
Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.
Shares of the master set’s priced value, from the slot prices in the checklist above.
At 37 slots, the Entry Pack master set is about equal to the Diamond & Pearl era median of 41 slots, so it is an average-sized job for its period. By master set value it ranks 5th of the 5 comparable sets in the era, the lowest of the group. Its neighbors are smaller: Shockwave! Tyranitar ex Constructed Standard Deck has 24 slots and Bastiodon the Defender Half Deck has 14, so this is the larger undertaking of the three to finish.
| Measure | This setEntry Pack | Median of 4 setsDiamond & Pearl median | Previous setShockwave! Tyranitar ex Constructed Standard Deck | Next setBastiodon the Defender Half Deck |
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| Release date | Oct 27, 2006 | — | Jun 29, 2006 | Mar 2, 2007 |
| Slots | 37 | 42 | 24 | 14 |
| Cards | 28 | 27 | 24 | 14 |
| Master set value | ≥ $38.66 | $76.38 | ≥ $60.09 | ≥ $36.93 |
A Entry Pack master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 28 cards on this page, with their Normal, Reverse Holo and Holo prints each listed and priced on their own. Sign in and the checklist tracks what you own, in step with the Cardboard Alpha app.
The large NM-only figure is a complete catalog estimate when every printing has current NM pricing. LP, MP, HP, and DMG “and up” totals below it use the requested condition or a better available condition. These are summed reference prices, not a quote from one seller; a dash means the current market does not cover every printing yet.
“LP and up” means lightly played or better: the total uses LP when available, then NM as the better-condition fallback. The MP, HP, and DMG tiers follow the same pattern.
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37 variants