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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the Sun & Moon era.
SM0: Pikachu's New Friends was released November 18, 2016.
SM0: Pikachu's New Friends has 4 cards.
SM0: Pikachu's New Friends is part of the Sun & Moon era.
Pikachu, at $10.95, as of October 31, 2026.
SM0: Pikachu's New Friends sits at the very start of the Sun & Moon era in the Japanese Pokémon TCG, an expansion released on November 18, 2016 under the set code SM0. It is a tiny release, with only four catalog printings in total. What defines it is the line-up: Pikachu alongside the three Alola starters, Popplio, Litten and Rowlet, all printed at Common rarity. There are no rare tiers or secret cards here, just a compact introduction to the Alola region's headline Pokémon and the era that followed.
There is no chase ladder in Pikachu's New Friends. All four cards in the set are Commons, so no rarity tier separates one pull from another and nothing sits above the printed count. Still, the card list ranks in a clear order by value: Pikachu leads, followed by Popplio, Litten and Rowlet. With so few cards, value is spread across a handful of near-identical rarity slots rather than concentrated in a single chase card, and the hunt here is for a specific character rather than a premium pull. Illustrator credits are not part of the picture for this release.
As of October 2026, SM0: Pikachu's New Friends is best understood by its kind and size. A full Sun & Moon expansion carries a deep card list with several rarity tiers and secret cards, while this one is a four-card release made up entirely of Commons, a very different object from a main expansion. In release order it follows CP6: Expansion Pack 20th Anniversary, which came out on September 16, 2016 with Pikachu EX as its top card, and precedes SM1S: Collection Sun, released December 9, 2016 and led by Espeon GX. Those neighbours are conventional expansions, which makes this release the compact outlier between them.
Written from market data as of October 29, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setSM0: Pikachu's New Friends | Previous setCP6: Expansion Pack 20th Anniversary | Next setSM1S: Collection Sun |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Nov 18, 2016 | Sep 16, 2016 | Dec 9, 2016 |
| Cards | 4 | 103 | 73 |
| Master set value | $28.14 | ≥ $3,619.88 | ≥ $376.70 |
| Most valuable card price | $10.95 | $1,500.00 | $75.00 |
| Priced cards | 4 of 4 | 90 of 103 | 61 of 73 |
Completing Pikachu's New Friends means finding all four catalog printings, and all four are priced: Pikachu, Popplio, Litten and Rowlet. With every card at Common rarity and only four to track, the full run is small and no single rare card dominates the cost of finishing it. The set also has one sealed product listed, filed as an other sealed item rather than a standard booster box, so the sealed side is as limited as the card list itself.