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Release date, card count, chase cards and how it compares with the Black & White era.
BW Black Star Promos is a promotional collection in the Black & White era of the English-language Pokémon TCG, released on April 26, 2011 under the set code BWP. The release date sits at the start of the era, and the card list covers 101 official cards across 105 catalog printings, since some promos exist in more than one version. Several names appear again and again, with Axew, Genesect and Victory Cup each printed three times and Eevee and Landorus twice. The Pokémon cards lean on Colorless, Fire, Lightning and Psychic types.
BW Black Star Promos has no conventional pull ladder, because it is a promotional run rather than a booster set, so its rarities are mostly Common and Rare with a few Promo cards. The most valuable cards are Tropical Beach, Eevee illustrated by Akira Komayama, Mew by Naoki Saito and Giratina by 5ban Graphics, with Lucario by Masakazu Fukuda close behind. All of them carry a Common rarity label despite their standing, which shows that rarity here says little about value. The top five cards hold 41 percent of the set's total card value, a moderate concentration for a promo collection.
BW Black Star Promos was released April 26, 2011.
BW Black Star Promos has 105 cards.
BW Black Star Promos is part of the Black & White era.
As of October 2026, BW Black Star Promos holds the highest total card value among the 3 comparable Black & White sets, about 51.9 times the era median, and its Tropical Beach ranks 1st among the era's single most valuable cards. It places 2nd for trading activity in the era and 5th by total card value across the whole game. At 101 official cards it runs larger than the era median of 12. It followed Basic Energy (2011 copyright), and it came before McDonald's Collection 2011, which holds less total value. Many of its cards first appeared in the Japanese BW-P Promotional cards, which shares 67 cards with it.
Written from market data as of October 23, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setBW Black Star Promos | Previous setBasic Energy (2011 copyright) | Next setMcDonald's Collection 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Apr 26, 2011 | Jan 1, 2011 | Jun 17, 2011 |
| Printed cards | 101 | — | 12 |
| Master set value | — | — | $101.56 |
| Most valuable card price | — | — | $19.29 |
| Priced cards | — | — | 12 of 12 |
Completing BW Black Star Promos means tracking down all 105 catalog printings, of which 102 are priced. Because the top five cards hold 41 percent of the set's total card value, the cost of a complete run is driven heavily by a few key promos like Tropical Beach, while the remaining cards are far more modest. The long tail of Common and Rare promos is spread across 24 illustrators, with 5ban Graphics credited on the most cards, so a full card list takes patience to assemble even where individual cards are easy to find.
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