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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the PCG era.
Silver Deck Kit is a Japanese Pokémon TCG deck product from the PCG era, released on October 15, 2004. It is a compact release of just 20 catalog printings rather than a full expansion, so the whole card list fits on a single screen. What defines it is repetition: Dark Dragonair, Dark Dragonite and Dratini each appear in two printings, which gives the product a clear Dragonite-line identity. Rocket's Articuno ex and Dark Gyarados round out the headline names. The set also carries a close tie to the English release Team Rocket Returns.
Silver Deck Kit was released October 15, 2004.
Silver Deck Kit has 20 cards.
Silver Deck Kit is part of the PCG era.
Dark Dragonite, at $300.00, as of November 6, 2026.
The draw of Silver Deck Kit is its Dark Pokémon, led by Dark Dragonite, which holds the top value rank and appears again at 5th. Rocket's Articuno ex sits 2nd, followed by Dark Gyarados at 3rd and Psyduck at 4th, so the upper end mixes Rocket-themed Pokémon with a non-Dark name that still carries real weight. Value is heavily concentrated: the top five cards alone hold 83 percent of the set's total card value. With so few printings, the rest of the list is largely supporting material around those few cards.
As of October 2026, Silver Deck Kit ranks 1st by total card value among the 4 comparable PCG sets, at about 2 times the era median, and its Dark Dragonite is also the era's most valuable single card. It leads the era in trading activity too, and ranks 10th by total card value across the whole game. It follows the Rayquaza Constructed Starter Deck, which holds less total value, and precedes Emerald Gift Box (Deoxys), which also holds less. Its cards reached English players in Team Rocket Returns, which came 2 weeks after this Japanese release.
Written from market data as of October 22, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setSilver Deck Kit | Median of 7 deck productsPCG median | Previous setRayquaza Constructed Starter Deck | Next setEmerald Gift Box (Deoxys) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Oct 15, 2004 | — | Jul 1, 2004 | Nov 19, 2004 |
| Cards | 20 | 20 | 16 | 19 |
| Master set value | ≥ $734.29 | $117.44 | ≥ $24.53 | ≥ $42.28 |
| Most valuable card price | $300.00 | $69.50 | $5.25 | $29.99 |
| Priced cards | 16 of 20 | 12 | 8 of 16 | 5 of 19 |
The full run is 20 catalog printings, and 16 of them are priced, so most of the list can be tracked. Because the top five cards hold such a large share of total value, the cost of a complete Silver Deck Kit is driven almost entirely by the Dark Dragonite copies and a few other Rocket-themed cards, while the remaining printings add comparatively little. With only 20 printings in all, the checklist is short, but the pricing story is top-heavy, and the four unpriced cards are the only part of the run without a tracked value.
