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86 master set cards
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54 of 86 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 PCG era.
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The hardest slots in the Mirage Forest master set are Holo 1st Edition prints, and they sit inside a run of 133 slots built from just 86 cards. Each card adds about 1.5 slots on average, because many cards come as both a 1st Edition and an Unlimited print. Normal finishes fill 109 slots and holos fill 24. Laid out nine to a side, the master set fills 8 double-sided binder pages, a compact job for a PCG era release from the Japanese Pokémon TCG, issued on June 30, 2005. The master set checklist is short, but its edition split is what makes it work.
Most of the Mirage Forest master set is made of edition families rather than finishes. Normal 1st Edition is the largest at 46 slots, with Normal Unlimited close behind at 45, and plain Normal covers 18 more. On the holo side, Holo 1st Edition takes 16 slots and Holo Unlimited takes 8. A 1st Edition print carries the edition mark of the set's earliest printing, while Unlimited is the standard print without it, so each counts as its own slot in the binder. There are no reverse holo slots in this master set.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
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| Normal 1st Edition | 46 | 34 | 19% |
| Normal Unlimited | 45 | 27 | 16% |
| Normal | 18 | 1 | 2.0% |
| Holo 1st Edition | 16 | 14 | 57% |
| Holo Unlimited | 8 | 3 | 6.0% |
The Mirage Forest master set is top-heavy. Its ten most valuable slots hold 60 percent of the total value, while the lower-value half of the priced slots adds up to only 14 percent. Holos account for 61 percent of the value despite filling just 24 slots, and normals hold the other 39 percent. Prices exist for 81 of the 133 slots, so the master set cost figures reflect those priced slots as of October 24, 2026. In practice a small group of holo slots decides the total.
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.
Five slots do most of the damage in the Mirage Forest master set. Arcanine ex in Holo 1st Edition ranks first by value, and the Holo 1st Edition of Dustox ex ranks second. That Dustox ex slot is a variant of the card rather than its main print, and the Holo Unlimited Dustox ex follows at third. The Holo 1st Edition Wailord comes fourth, and the Uncommon Haunter in Normal rounds out the five. Together these slots hold 47 percent of the master set's total value, with Haunter the one non-holo among them.
At 133 slots, the Mirage Forest master set is about 1.1 times the PCG era median of 119 slots, so the job is a little larger than a typical set of its era. By master set value it ranks 6th of 10 comparable sets in the era. The previous set, Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean, has 154 slots and a master set that holds more value. The next set, Holon Research Tower, has 114 slots and also holds more value, so both neighbours are worth more to complete despite the size difference.
| Measure | This setMirage Forest | Median of 10 setsPCG median | Previous setGolden Sky, Silvery Ocean | Next setHolon Research Tower |
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| Release date | Jun 30, 2005 | — | Apr 8, 2005 | Oct 28, 2005 |
| Slots | 133 | 119 | 154 | 114 |
| Cards | 86 | 83 | 106 | 86 |
| Master set value | ≥ $4,059.71 | $3,880.16 | ≥ $5,406.39 | ≥ $4,980.87 |
A Mirage Forest master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 86 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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