Champion's Path Master Set Checklist & Cost

Variants in the Champion's Path master set

The Champion's Path master set is built from four variant families. Reverse Holo is the largest at 54 slots, and it covers Uncommon, Common and Holo Rare cards, so those are the rarities that carry an extra print. Normal prints come next at 44 slots, then Holo at 36. The small outlier is a single Normal Trick Or Trade slot, a stamped version of a normal print. A stamped slot like that is its own binder pocket, so a collection missing it is one card short even with every standard print in hand.

Where the Champion's Path master set's cost sits

The Champion's Path master set cost is extremely top-heavy. The ten most valuable slots hold 90 percent of the total value, while the lower-value half of the priced slots adds up to only 2 percent. By finish, holos carry 96 percent, reverse holos 3 percent and normal prints 2 percent. All 135 of the 135 slots carry a price as of October 24, 2026. Condition matters at the margin: the LP and up total sits 14 percent below Near Mint, and the MP and up total sits 30 percent below it.

Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.

• Top 10 slots89%
• Holo slots95%
• Reverse holo slots2.9%
• Normal slots1.8%
• Lower-value half2.5%

Shares of the master set’s priced value, from the slot prices in the checklist above.

Hardest Champion's Path master set slots

A handful of holos decide whether this master set gets finished. The five hardest slots are the Charizard V, Charizard VMAX, Gardevoir VMAX and Drednaw VMAX, all secret rare holos, followed by the Alcremie VMAX, a holo rare VMAX. Together they hold 86 percent of the master set's total value. None of them is a variant slot: each is the card's main holo print, so the difficulty sits in the secret rare numbers themselves rather than in a hidden reverse holo or stamped version.

Most valuable slots

1. 1Charizard V · Holo · Secret Rare$219.58
2. 2Charizard VMAX · Holo · Secret Rare$161.84
3. 3Gardevoir VMAX · Holo · Secret Rare$17.12
4. 4Drednaw VMAX · Holo · Secret Rare$7.70
5. 5Alcremie VMAX · Holo · Holo Rare VMAX$5.76
6. 6Gardevoir VMAX · Holo · Holo Rare VMAX$4.94
7. 7Gardevoir V · Holo · Ultra Rare$4.38
8. 8Lucario V · Holo · Holo Rare V$4.02
9. 9Piers · Holo · Secret Rare$3.68
10. 10Venusaur V · Holo · Holo Rare V$3.34

How the Champion's Path master set compares

At 135 slots, the Champion's Path master set is about 0.4 times the 358-slot median for its era, one of the shorter Sword & Shield era master sets to complete. By master set value it ranks 9th among 17 comparable sets in the era. The previous set, Darkness Ablaze, runs 370 slots and holds lower value, while the next set, Vivid Voltage, runs 358 slots and holds similar value. Both ask for far more binder pages, so the small size here is a matter of slot count, not of value.