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Release date, card count, chase cards and how it compares with the EX era.
Ruby & Sapphire is the English-language Pokémon TCG expansion that opened the EX era, released on July 1, 2003 under the set code RS. It carries 109 cards, all of them numbered within the official count, with no secret cards above it. The set leans on Grass, Water, Colorless and Fighting Pokémon, and Aron, Electrike, Makuhita, Poochyena and Ralts each appear three times, which gives the card list its multiple-version feel. At the top of the value order sit ex cards such as Mewtwo ex, Scyther ex and Lapras ex, marking this as the debut of the ex card style for this generation.
The rarity ladder in Ruby & Sapphire is short: 40 commons, 34 uncommons, 21 rares and 14 holo rares, with no secret tier above the printed 109. The most valuable cards are rares rather than holos, led by Mewtwo ex, then Scyther ex, Lapras ex and Hitmonchan ex, illustrated by Katsura Tabata, Ryo Ueda, Hikaru Koike and Hiromichi Sugiyama. Holo rares such as Gardevoir, Blaziken and Sceptile follow just behind. Value is fairly concentrated, with the top five cards holding 55 percent of the set's total card value, so the most valuable cards define the chase here.
Ruby & Sapphire was released July 1, 2003.
Ruby & Sapphire has 109 cards.
Ruby & Sapphire is part of the EX era.
As of October 2026, Ruby & Sapphire ranks 16th by total card value among the 16 comparable EX sets, at about 0.5 times the era median, and 60th across the whole game of 130 comparable sets. Its single most valuable card ranks 13th in the era, though its trading activity ranks 5th. At 109 printed cards it is about the same size as the era median of 107. It followed Skyridge, which holds higher total value, and came before Sandstorm, which holds similar value. Its cards first appeared in Japan in ADV Expansion Pack, released January 31, 2003, which shares 54 cards with it.
Finishing Ruby & Sapphire means tracking down 109 catalog printings, and all 109 are priced. Because the top five cards carry most of the value, the cost of a complete set rests largely on a few ex cards, while the commons and uncommons that make up most of the checklist are a small part of it. The sealed line for the set lists three products: a booster box, a booster pack and a blister. Collectors working the full card list will find the three-printing Pokémon like Aron and Ralts easy to miss when checking for variants.
Market comparisons as of October 2026.
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