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114 master set cards
113 official cards
114 catalog total
Market coverage is incomplete
NM only
113 of 114 cards priced
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Slots and binder pages, variant families, where the cost sits, the most valuable slots and how it compares with the EX era.
LP and up
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MP and up
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HP and up
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DMG and up
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The Delta Species master set takes 258 slots against the 114 cards in the set, which has an official count of 113 with 1 secret card above it. Each card adds about 2.3 slots on average, because reverse holos and several stamped prints sit alongside the main versions. Normal finishes account for 134 slots, reverse holos for 72 and holos for 52. Laid out nine to a side, the full master set checklist fills 15 double-sided binder pages. It is a mid-sized project for an EX era expansion released on October 31, 2005, in the English-language Pokémon TCG.
The biggest family in the Delta Species master set is the plain Normal print, followed by the Reverse Holo family, which reaches Uncommon, Common and Rare cards alike. Holo prints form a third family, with Holo Set Logo and Normal Set Logo versions adding a stamped layer on top of the regular finishes. The smallest groups are Normal prints tied to named artists, including Miska Saari, Jun Hasebe and Akira Miyazaki. A reverse holo means the card art carries the foil pattern across the frame instead of the artwork window, so each one is its own binder slot.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
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| Normal | 89 | 89 | 7.3% |
| Reverse Holo | 72 | 72 | 30% |
| Holo | 25 | 24 | 60% |
| Holo Set Logo | 18 | 0 | — |
| Normal Set Logo | 16 | 1 | <1% |
| Normal Miska Saari | 6 | 6 | <1% |
| Normal Jun Hasebe | 5 | 5 | <1% |
| Normal Akira Miyazaki | 4 | 4 | <1% |
| Holo Jimmy Ballard | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Normal Jason Klaczynski | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Normal Jeremy Scharff Kim | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Normal Jimmy Ballard | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Normal Tom Roos | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Holo Jun Hasebe | 2 | 2 | <1% |
| Holo Tom Roos | 2 | 2 | <1% |
| Normal Hiroki Yano | 2 | 2 | <1% |
| Holo Comic Con | 1 | 0 | — |
| Holo Pre Release | 1 | 1 | <1% |
As of October 24, 2026, 220 of the Delta Species master set's 258 slots carry a price. Value is heavily concentrated: the ten most valuable slots hold 47 percent of the master set cost, while the lower-value half of the priced slots adds up to only 2 percent. By finish, holos hold 60 percent of the total, reverse holos 31 percent and normal prints just 9 percent, even though normal prints are the largest group by slot count. The master set cost is therefore decided by a small cluster of holo slots, and the long tail of commons and uncommons barely moves it.
Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.
Shares of the master set’s priced value, from the slot prices in the checklist above.
The hardest slots in the Delta Species master set are all Rare holos: Groudon Star, Metagross Star, Mewtwo δ, Umbreon δ and Flareon ex, listed in value order. None of them is a variant; each is the card's main holo print, so the difficulty here is the cards themselves rather than a hidden stamped version. Together these five slots hold 34 percent of the master set's total value, which means about a third of the cost rests on five binder pockets out of 258.
At 258 slots, the Delta Species master set is about 1.1 times the era median of 234 slots, so it is a little larger than a typical EX era set. By master set value it ranks 4th among the 16 comparable sets of its era. The previous set, Unseen Forces, runs to 266 slots and its master set holds higher value, while the next set, Legend Maker, is a lighter job at 197 slots and holds lower value. Delta Species sits between the two in size, closer to its predecessor.
| Measure | This setDelta Species | Median of 16 setsEX median | Previous setUnseen Forces | Next setLegend Maker |
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| Release date | Oct 31, 2005 | — | Aug 22, 2005 | Feb 13, 2006 |
| Slots | 258 | 230 | 266 | 197 |
| Cards | 114 | 108 | 143 | 93 |
| Master set value | $12,324.85 | $6,150.75 | $14,712.55 | $5,358.42 |
A Delta Species master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 114 cards on this page, with their Normal, Reverse Holo and Holo prints each listed and priced on their own. Sign in and the checklist tracks what you own, in step with the Cardboard Alpha app.
The large NM-only figure is a complete catalog estimate when every printing has current NM pricing. LP, MP, HP, and DMG “and up” totals below it use the requested condition or a better available condition. These are summed reference prices, not a quote from one seller; a dash means the current market does not cover every printing yet.
“LP and up” means lightly played or better: the total uses LP when available, then NM as the better-condition fallback. The MP, HP, and DMG tiers follow the same pattern.
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