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279 master set cards
193 official cards
279 catalog total
279 / 279 priced
NM only
Complete catalog estimate
$1,687.66
Slots and binder pages, variant families, where the cost sits, the most valuable slots and how it compares with the Scarlet & Violet era.
LP and up
$1,631.26
MP and up
$1,478.00
HP and up
$1,376.78
DMG and up
$1,260.76
The hardest part of the Paldea Evolved master set sits at the top of its value ranking, but the full job is 491 slots across 279 cards, which works out to about 1.8 slots per card. Of those slots, 176 are reverse holos, 158 are holos and 157 are normal prints. Counting 193 official cards with 86 secret cards above them, the master set checklist fills 28 double-sided binder pages at nine cards a side. This is a Scarlet & Violet era expansion for the English-language Pokémon TCG, released June 9, 2023.
The Paldea Evolved master set is built mostly from three standard families: 176 Reverse Holo slots, 151 Normal slots and 134 Holo slots. Reverse holos are printed for the Common, Uncommon and Rare cards, which is why that family is so large. The rest is a short tail of special prints: 15 Holo Foil Cosmos slots, 4 Normal Trick Or Trade slots, and smaller groups for Holo Foil Cosmos Snowflake, Holo Jumbo and Holo Set Logo. Each of these is its own binder slot, even though it repeats a card already counted elsewhere.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reverse Holo | 176 | 176 | 2.4% |
| Normal | 151 | 151 | 1.1% |
| Holo | 134 | 134 | 90% |
| Holo Foil Cosmos | 15 | 12 | 2.7% |
| Normal Trick Or Trade | 4 | 4 | <1% |
| Holo Foil Cosmos Snowflake | 2 | 0 | — |
| Holo Jumbo | 2 | 1 | 2.7% |
| Holo Set Logo | 2 | 1 | <1% |
| Holo Snowflake | 2 | 2 | <1% |
| Holo Gamestop | 1 | 1 | <1% |
| Normal Jumbo Rain City | 1 | 0 | — |
| Normal Snowflake | 1 | 1 | <1% |
The Paldea Evolved master set cost is concentrated at the top. The ten most valuable slots hold 43 percent of the total, while the lower-value half of the priced slots adds up to only 2 percent. By finish, holos carry 96 percent of the value, reverse holos 3 percent and normal prints 1 percent, so the reverse holo and normal slots barely move the total. As of October 24, 2026, 482 of the 491 slots carry a price. Condition matters less than expected at the lighter end: an LP and up master set sits 4 percent below the Near Mint total, while MP and up sits 19 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.
Five Illustration rare holos define the difficulty of the Paldea Evolved master set: Magikarp, Raichu, Maushold, Tyranitar and Sprigatito, in value order. Together they hold 31 percent of the master set's total value. None of them is a variant slot, since each is the card's main holo print, so the difficulty here comes from the cards themselves rather than from an obscure stamped or reverse holo version. Finishing the remaining slots is a matter of volume, while these five decide how the total is reached.
At 491 slots, the Paldea Evolved master set is 1.2 times the era median of 423 slots, a larger job than most Scarlet & Violet era sets. By master set value it ranks 5th among the 16 comparable sets of its era. The previous set, Scarlet & Violet, has 453 slots and a master set holding lower value, and the next set, Obsidian Flames, has 466 slots and also holds lower value. Paldea Evolved is therefore the bigger and higher-value master set of the three.
| Measure | This setPaldea Evolved | Median of 16 setsScarlet & Violet median | Previous setScarlet & Violet | Next setObsidian Flames |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Jun 9, 2023 | — | Mar 31, 2023 | Aug 11, 2023 |
| Slots | 491 | 423 | 453 | 466 |
| Cards | 279 | 222 | 258 | 230 |
| Master set value | $1,685.66 | $1,108.53 | $669.59 | $397.51 |
A Paldea Evolved master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 279 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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