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19 master set cards
— official cards
Market coverage is incomplete
NM only
6 of 19 cards priced
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LP and up
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Slots and binder pages, variant families, where the cost sits, the most valuable slots and how it compares with the PCG era.
MP and up
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HP and up
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DMG and up
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The Metagross Constructed Starter Deck master set comes to 28 slots against 19 cards in the set, so each card adds about 1.5 slots on average. Normal finishes make up 24 of those slots and holos the other 4. Laid out nine to a side, the whole run fills 2 double-sided binder pages, a small job for a PCG era release in the Japanese Pokémon TCG, dated January 16, 2004. The master set checklist is short enough to finish quickly once every slot is located.
Most of the extra slots in the Metagross Constructed Starter Deck master set come from print runs rather than finishes. Normal 1st Edition is the largest family at 15 slots, followed by Normal Unlimited at 8. A 1st Edition print is the earliest print run of a card, marked with a stamp, while the Unlimited print carries no such mark. The holo cards repeat that split, with Holo 1st Edition and Holo Unlimited at 2 slots each. A single plain Normal slot sits outside those editions, so the 1st Edition and Unlimited pairs account for nearly the whole checklist.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
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| Normal 1st Edition | 15 | 4 | 11% |
| Normal Unlimited | 8 | 0 | — |
| Holo 1st Edition | 2 | 2 | 89% |
| Holo Unlimited | 2 | 0 | — |
| Normal | 1 | 0 | — |
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 28 slots, the Metagross Constructed Starter Deck master set is a modest project among Japanese Pokémon TCG releases of its time. Its neighbours in release order give the scale: Gift Box (Latios) before it has 18 slots, while Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) after it has 52. The Latios gift box is the lighter job of the two. In sequence, this master set sits between a short box and a much longer deck set.
| Measure | This setMetagross Constructed Starter Deck | Previous setGift Box (Latios) | Next setRandom Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Jan 16, 2004 | Nov 17, 2003 | Mar 19, 2004 |
| Slots | 28 | 18 | 52 |
| Cards | 19 | 18 | 52 |
| Master set value | ≥ $40.87 | ≥ $100.24 | ≥ $423.89 |
A Metagross Constructed Starter Deck master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 19 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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