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30 master set cards
30 official cards
30 / 30 priced
NM only
Complete catalog estimate
$119.91
Slots and binder pages, variant families, where the cost sits, the most valuable slots and how it compares with the HeartGold & SoulSilver era.
LP and up
$58.57
MP and up
$38.49
HP and up
$27.65
DMG and up
$19.86
The HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set comes to 30 slots, exactly matching the 30 cards in the set, so every card adds one slot and there are no extra variants to chase. Normal prints account for 29 of those slots and a single holo takes the last. Laid out nine to a side, the full master set checklist fills just 2 double-sided binder pages. It is a compact job for a HeartGold & SoulSilver era product from the English-language Pokémon TCG, released on May 1, 2010.
The HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set has only two variant families: Normal, which covers 29 slots, and Holo, which covers one. With no reverse holo, stamped or special print families in the set, the variant count stays flat and finishing the binder means finding one copy of each card plus the single holo. A holo is the foil-treated version of a card, and here it applies to the Gyarados alone, so the master set checklist is closer to a plain card list than a variant hunt.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 29 | 29 | 64% |
| Holo | 1 | 1 | 36% |
As of October 24, 2026, 30 of the 30 slots carry a price in the HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set, and the value is heavily concentrated. The ten most valuable slots hold 84 percent of the total, while the lower-value half of the slots together hold only 8 percent. By finish, normal prints account for 64 percent of the master set cost and the lone holo for 36 percent. Condition matters a great deal: the LP and up total sits 51 percent below the Near Mint total, and the MP and up total sits 68 percent below 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.
A handful of slots carry most of the weight in the HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set. The Gyarados holo ranks first by value, followed by the normal Totodile, the normal Magikarp, the normal Gyarados and a second normal Totodile slot. Together these five hardest slots hold 70 percent of the master set's total value. None of them is a variant of a card's main print, so the difficulty sits in the cards themselves rather than in a hidden reverse holo or stamped slot.
At 30 slots, the HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set is a small undertaking, and its binder footprint stays modest. Its neighbours in the release order are the DP trainer Kit (Manaphy), at 12 slots, and the BW trainer Kit (Excadrill), at 30 slots. The master sets of both of those hold lower value than this one, so the HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set is the larger commitment of the three by total value, and matches the Excadrill kit on slot count while exceeding the Manaphy kit by a wide margin.
| Measure | This setHS trainer Kit (Gyarados) | Previous setDP trainer Kit (Manaphy) | Next setBW trainer Kit (Excadrill) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | May 1, 2010 | Sep 1, 2007 | Sep 1, 2011 |
| Slots | 30 | 12 | 30 |
| Cards | 30 | 12 | 30 |
| Master set value | $119.91 | $12.65 | $15.93 |
A HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 30 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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30 variants