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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the Sword & Shield era.
sEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX is a Japanese Pokémon TCG deck product from the Sword & Shield era, released on December 4, 2020. It is a compact set of 20 catalog printings, and every one of them is a Common, which fits a ready-to-play starter deck. The release is built around its headline cards, Blastoise VMAX and Blastoise V, with Cramorant, Manaphy and Horsea filling out the list. The card list reads as a single-theme deck centred on Blastoise rather than a broad expansion, and it uses the set code sEK.
sEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX was released December 4, 2020.
sEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX has 20 cards.
sEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX is part of the Sword & Shield era.
The rarity structure here is flat: all 20 cards in sEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX are Commons, with no chase tier and no secret cards above the printed run. The most valuable cards are therefore the playable headliners, led by Blastoise VMAX, then Blastoise V, Cramorant, Manaphy and Horsea. Value is heavily concentrated, since the top five cards hold 80 percent of the set's total card value. The chase cards in this deck product are simply its top few Pokémon, and the remaining cards add comparatively little.
As of October 2026, sEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX ranks 15th by total card value among the 21 comparable Sword & Shield sets, at about 0.6 times the era median, and 95th across the whole game's 110 comparable sets. Its single most valuable card ranks 12th in the era, while its trading activity ranks 5th, well above its value standing. It came after sp2: VMAX Special Set, which holds more total value, and before sF: Single Strike & Rapid Strike Premium Trainer Boxes, which holds less. Its cards reached English in Shining Fates, with the Japanese release first by 2 months, and the two share 10 cards.
Written from market data as of October 23, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setsEK: Blastoise Starter Set VMAX | Median of 21 deck productsSword & Shield median | Previous setsp2: VMAX Special Set | Next setsF: Single Strike & Rapid Strike Premium Trainer Boxes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Dec 4, 2020 | — | Oct 23, 2020 | Jan 22, 2021 |
| Cards | 20 | 21 | 8 | 33 |
| Master set value | ≥ $34.23 | $53.88 | ≥ $13.92 | ≥ $19.82 |
| Most valuable card price | $14.23 | $15.00 | $9.99 | $9.66 |
| Priced cards | 14 of 20 | 12 | 4 of 8 | 5 of 33 |
The full run is 20 catalog printings, and 14 of them are priced, so a few cards in the list carry no market figure. Because the top five cards hold 80 percent of the set's value, the cost of a complete set rests mostly on Blastoise VMAX and Blastoise V, while the remaining Commons are minor additions. Being a single deck product, the set is small and quick to track card by card, and the Blastoise cards are the ones that define whether a collection of it feels complete.
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