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75 master set cards
— official cards
Market coverage is incomplete
NM only
63 of 75 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 Sword & Shield era.
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MP and up
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The cost of the S1H: Shield master set is concentrated in a small corner of a compact run. The master set checklist holds 75 slots for 75 cards, so every card adds exactly one slot and there are no reverse holo duplicates to chase. Normal prints account for 47 slots and holo prints for 28. Laid out nine to a side, the whole master set fits in 5 double-sided binder pages, a short project for a Sword & Shield era release from the Japanese Pokémon TCG dated December 6, 2019.
The S1H: Shield master set has only two variant families: Normal at 47 slots and Holo at 28. Each card appears in a single finish, so there is no second version of any card to track down, and the master set checklist reads much like a plain list of how many cards the set contains. A holo slot is a card printed with a foil finish, while a normal slot is the standard non-foil print. The set carries no stamped or edition-marked families.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
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| Normal | 47 | 45 | 11% |
| Holo | 28 | 23 | 89% |
As of October 24, 2026, 69 of the 75 slots carry a price, and the S1H: Shield master set cost is heavily top-weighted. The ten most valuable slots hold 81 percent of the total value, while the lower-value half of the priced slots adds up to just 4 percent. The split by finish is just as lopsided: holo slots hold 89 percent of the value and normal slots hold 11 percent, even though normal prints outnumber holos in the binder. Finishing the holo side is what decides the final master set cost.
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.
The hardest slots in the S1H: Shield master set are all holo prints of main cards rather than variants, so there are no surprise variant slots to hunt. The Quick Ball, an Ultra Rare, holds the top value rank, followed by Snorlax VMAX as a Hyper Rare. The same Snorlax VMAX appears again in a second slot at a lower rarity tier, and Morpeko VMAX, also a Hyper Rare, follows. Snorlax V as a Super Rare rounds out the group. Together these five slots hold 70 percent of the master set's total value, so the rest of the binder fills in around them.
At 75 slots, the S1H: Shield master set is about 0.8 times the era median of 99 slots, making it a smaller job than most Sword & Shield sets. It still ranks 8th by master set value among the 30 comparable sets of its era. Its neighbours are larger: the previous set, SM12a: TAG TEAM GX: Tag All Stars, runs to 353 slots and holds higher master set value, while the next set, S1a: VMAX Rising, has 86 slots and holds lower value.
| Measure | This setS1H: Shield | Median of 30 setsSword & Shield median | Previous setSM12a: TAG TEAM GX: Tag All Stars | Next setS1a: VMAX Rising |
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| Release date | Dec 6, 2019 | — | Oct 4, 2019 | Feb 7, 2020 |
| Slots | 75 | 99 | 353 | 86 |
| Cards | 75 | 95 | 235 | 86 |
| Master set value | ≥ $591.58 | $400.85 | ≥ $5,227.93 | ≥ $249.15 |
A S1H: Shield master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 75 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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