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120 master set cards
111 official cards
120 catalog total
120 / 120 priced
NM only
Complete catalog estimate
$4,397.83
Slots and binder pages, variant families, where the cost sits, the most valuable slots and how it compares with the Diamond & Pearl era.
LP and up
$3,426.51
MP and up
$3,022.20
HP and up
$1,626.27
DMG and up
$1,296.10
The variants are what turn Rising Rivals from a 120-card set into a 268-slot master set. Official numbering runs to 111 cards with 9 secret cards above it, and each card adds about 2.2 slots on average. Reverse holos make up 122 slots, normal prints 112 and holos 34. Laid out nine to a side, the full run fills 15 double-sided binder pages. It is a Diamond & Pearl era set from the English-language Pokémon TCG, released May 16, 2009.
Reverse Holo is the largest family in the Rising Rivals master set at 108 slots, followed by Normal at 89 and Holo at 25. Reverse holo prints are found across Common, Uncommon, Rare and Holo Rare cards, which is why that family runs so deep. The special families are smaller: Reverse Holo Foil Cracked Ice has 8 slots and Reverse Holo Foil League has 6, while the Normal prints credited to David Cohen, Tsubasa Nakamura and Jason Martinez add a handful more. Each counts as its own binder slot.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reverse Holo | 108 | 108 | 29% |
| Normal | 89 | 89 | 4.5% |
| Holo | 25 | 25 | 58% |
| Reverse Holo Foil Cracked Ice | 8 | 2 | 2.7% |
| Normal David Cohen | 6 | 5 | <1% |
| Reverse Holo Foil League | 6 | 5 | 1.3% |
| Normal Tsubasa Nakamura | 4 | 4 | <1% |
| Normal Jason Martinez | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Normal Stephen Silvestro | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Normal Yuta Komatsuda | 3 | 3 | <1% |
| Holo Stephen Silvestro | 2 | 2 | <1% |
| Holo Tsubasa Nakamura | 2 | 2 | 1.5% |
| Holo Yuta Komatsuda | 2 | 2 | <1% |
| Holo David Cohen | 1 | 1 | <1% |
| Holo Foil Cosmos | 1 | 0 | — |
| Holo Mychael Bryan | 1 | 1 | <1% |
| Normal Michael Pramawat | 1 | 1 | <1% |
| Normal Mychael Bryan | 1 | 1 | <1% |
| Normal Pre Release | 1 | 1 | <1% |
| Normal Pre Release Staff | 1 | 1 | <1% |
As of October 24, 2026, 258 of the 268 slots carry a price, and the Rising Rivals master set cost is heavily concentrated. The ten most valuable slots hold 49 percent of the total, while the lower-value half of the priced slots holds only 3 percent. Holos account for 58 percent of the value, reverse holos for 36 percent and normal prints for 6 percent. Condition matters as well: an LP and up master set sits 27 percent below the Near Mint total, and an MP and up set sits 58 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 short list of holo slots decides how hard this master set is to finish. Snorlax LV.X, a Rare Holo LV.X, holds the top spot, followed by the Rare holo Surfing Pikachu, the Rare Holo LV.X Infernape E4 LV.X, the Rare holo Pikachu and the Rare Holo LV.X Alakazam E4 LV.X. Together these five hold 36 percent of the master set's total value. All five are main holo prints rather than alternate variants, so the hard part is the handful of LV.X and Pikachu holos at the top, not an obscure stamped version.
At 268 slots, the Rising Rivals master set is about equal to the Diamond & Pearl era median of 270, so it is an average-sized job by slot count. By master set value it ranks 1st among the 11 comparable sets of its era, which makes it the heaviest in cost despite its typical size. Platinum, the previous set, has 303 slots and a master set of lower value. Supreme Victors, the next set, has 320 slots and holds similar value.
| Measure | This setRising Rivals | Median of 11 setsDiamond & Pearl median | Previous setPlatinum | Next setSupreme Victors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | May 16, 2009 | — | Feb 11, 2009 | Aug 19, 2009 |
| Slots | 268 | 270 | 303 | 320 |
| Cards | 120 | 124 | 133 | 153 |
| Master set value | $4,346.24 | $2,390.23 | $2,390.23 | $4,086.10 |
A Rising Rivals master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 120 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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