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Release date, card count, chase cards and how it compares with the EX era.
POP Series 3 is a compact promotional run of 17 cards, with 17 printings in the catalog, so there is no secret tier sitting above the printed count. It belongs to the EX era of the English-language Pokémon TCG and carries the set code P3. The release date was April 1, 2006. The card list splits into 7 rares, 5 commons and 5 uncommons, and the Pokémon types lean on Lightning, Fire, Fighting and Grass. Ho-Oh ex, Pichu Bros. and Blastoise are the headline cards that give the collection its identity.
The chase cards in POP Series 3 are easy to name because the rarity structure is flat: rares, commons and uncommons, with no chase-tier cards and nothing numbered past the printed 17. Ho-Oh ex, a rare illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, is the most valuable card. Pichu Bros., a common illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno, ranks 2nd, ahead of Arita's Blastoise, Yuka Morii's Ditto and Masakazu Fukuda's Jolteon. Value is concentrated, as the top five cards hold 63 percent of the set's total card value, so a few cards drive the cost of the whole run.
POP Series 3 was released April 1, 2006.
POP Series 3 has 17 cards.
POP Series 3 is part of the EX era.
As of October 2026, POP Series 3 holds the 4th highest total card value among the 10 comparable EX era sets, about 1.3 times the era median, and 16th across the whole game. Its single most valuable card ranks 5th in the era, and it is 4th for trading activity. At 17 cards it is about the same size as the era median of 17. It follows POP Series 2, which holds less total value, and comes before POP Series 4, which holds more. Twelve of its cards first appeared in the Japanese PCG-P Promotional cards, released February 1, 2004.
Written from market data as of October 23, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setPOP Series 3 | Previous setPOP Series 2 | Next setPOP Series 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Apr 1, 2006 | Aug 1, 2005 | Aug 1, 2006 |
| Printed cards | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Master set value | — | $506.73 | $1,756.41 |
| Most valuable card price | — | $66.48 | $750.00 |
| Priced cards | — | 17 of 17 | 17 of 17 |
A complete POP Series 3 means finding all 17 catalog printings, and every one is priced, so the full run can be tracked card by card. Because the top five cards carry 63 percent of the set's value, the cost of finishing it depends mostly on a few cards, led by Ho-Oh ex, while the remaining commons and uncommons are minor by comparison. The sealed line is a single product, listed as an other sealed item, so the card run is the main way into the set.
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