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258 master set cards
198 official cards
258 catalog total
258 / 258 priced
NM only
Complete catalog estimate
$639.88
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
$623.63
MP and up
$617.22
HP and up
$568.16
DMG and up
$474.48
The cost structure of the Scarlet & Violet master set is lopsided: of 453 slots, 451 carry a price, yet the value concentrates in a small corner. The set holds 258 cards, 198 official and 60 secret, and each card adds about 1.8 slots once variants are counted. Reverse holos fill 186 slots, normal prints 174 and holos 93. Laid out nine to a side, the full run fills 26 double-sided binder pages. This is the English-language Pokémon TCG master set from the Scarlet & Violet era, released March 31, 2023.
Reverse Holo is the biggest family in the Scarlet & Violet master set at 186 slots, and it comes from the Common, Uncommon and Rare cards, each of which has a second, reverse holo print. Normal follows with 165 slots and Holo with 93, which together carry the main prints. Beyond those sit small stamped and special families: Normal Trick Or Trade at 6 slots and Normal Deck Exclusive at 3. Each is its own binder slot, so a normal card without the stamp does not stand in for the stamped one.
| Variant family | Slots | Priced | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reverse Holo | 186 | 186 | 7.8% |
| Normal | 165 | 165 | 4.0% |
| Holo | 93 | 93 | 87% |
| Normal Trick Or Trade | 6 | 4 | <1% |
| Normal Deck Exclusive | 3 | 3 | <1% |
As of October 24, 2026, the Scarlet & Violet master set cost is dominated by holos, which hold 88 percent of the total value, while reverse holos account for 7 percent and normal prints for 5. The ten most valuable slots hold 44 percent of everything, and the lower-value half of the priced slots adds up to just 5 percent. Condition matters little here: the LP and up total sits 3 percent below Near Mint, and the MP and up total 7 percent below. All 451 priced slots feed those figures.
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.
The hardest slots in the Scarlet & Violet master set are all holos of the main print rather than hidden variants. Gardevoir ex, a special illustration rare, ranks first by value. Behind it come four illustration rares in order: Drowzee, Slowpoke, Ralts and Kirlia. Together these five slots hold 29 percent of the master set's total value, so finishing the binder largely comes down to landing the top-tier illustration cards, while the reverse holos and normals fill in around them.
At 453 slots, the Scarlet & Violet master set is about equal to the era median of 423, so it is a typical-sized job for its era. By master set value it ranks 13th of 16 comparable sets in the era. The previous set, Crown Zenith, has 274 slots and a master set of lower value. The next set, Paldea Evolved, has 491 slots and a master set of higher value, making it the bigger and more valuable run of the three.
| Measure | This setScarlet & Violet | Median of 16 setsScarlet & Violet median | Previous setCrown Zenith | Next setPaldea Evolved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Mar 31, 2023 | — | Jan 20, 2023 | Jun 9, 2023 |
| Slots | 453 | 423 | 274 | 491 |
| Cards | 258 | 222 | 160 | 279 |
| Master set value | $643.01 | $1,095.33 | $212.33 | $1,691.94 |
A Scarlet & Violet master set is one copy of every card AND every variant in the set — the 258 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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453 variants