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Release date, card count, chase cards and how it compares with the Sun & Moon era.
SM Black Star Promos is the promotional collection for the Sun & Moon era in the English-language Pokémon TCG, with a release date of February 3, 2017 and the set code SMP. It runs to 248 cards, all of them promos, and acts as a catch-all for cards handed out through events, products and partnerships rather than sold in boosters. Repeated names give it its character: Pikachu appears in 11 printings, Ash's Pikachu in 7, and Eevee GX in 5, while Champions Festival turns up three times. Lightning, Psychic, Fire and Colorless Pokémon make up most of the typing.
There is no rarity ladder here, since every one of the 248 cards in the SM Black Star Promos card list carries the Promo rarity and none counts as a chase tier. The cards worth chasing are the event and tournament pieces. Champions Festival, illustrated by Naoki Saito, holds the top spot, followed by Mewtwo & Mew GX, Armored Mewtwo, and two more Champions Festival printings in 4th and 5th. Value is spread widely: the top five cards account for 22 percent of the set's total card value, so no single card dominates the way it does in many booster expansions.
SM Black Star Promos was released February 3, 2017.
SM Black Star Promos has 248 cards.
SM Black Star Promos is part of the Sun & Moon era.
As of October 2026, SM Black Star Promos holds the highest total card value of the 4 comparable Sun & Moon sets, about 27.5 times the era median, and it also leads the era for its most valuable single card and for trading activity. Across the whole game it ranks 3rd by total card value among 35 comparable sets. At 248 printed cards it is far larger than the era median of 12. It follows McDonald's Collection 2016, which holds less total value, and comes before McDonald's Collection 2017, which also holds less. Its cards first appeared in the Japanese SM-P: Sun & Moon Promos, released November 1, 2016, which shares 123 cards with it.
| Measure | This setSM Black Star Promos | Previous setMcDonald's Collection 2016 | Next setMcDonald's Collection 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Feb 3, 2017 | Aug 20, 2016 | Aug 3, 2017 |
| Printed cards | 248 | 12 | 12 |
| Master set value | — | $1,341.83 | $103.20 |
| Most valuable card price | — | $199.99 | $31.66 |
| Priced cards | — | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 |
Completing SM Black Star Promos means tracking 248 printings, and all 248 are priced, so the full run can be followed card by card. Because the top five cards hold only 22 percent of the set's value, the cost of a complete set is not locked inside a few cards; it builds across the Champions Festival printings, the GX promos and the many Pikachu variants. Promos like these were distributed through events and special products, so the work is mostly in hunting down individual cards rather than opening product.
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