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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the Sun & Moon era.
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.
Champions Festival, at $489.99, as of October 22, 2026.
SM Black Star Promos is the English-language Pokémon TCG's promotional run for the Sun & Moon era, released on February 3, 2017 under the set code SMP. It is a promo collection rather than a boosterbased expansion, and it contains 248 cards in total. The Pokémon appearing most often are Pikachu with 11 printings and Ash's Pikachu with 7, alongside Eevee GX and Charizard GX. Champions Festival is another name that recurs, and the headline cards lean on Lightning, Psychic, Fire and Colorless Pokémon.
Every card in SM Black Star Promos carries the same Promo rarity, so there is no pull ladder and no secret cards above the printed count. Value is ranked by the individual card instead. Champions Festival, illustrated by Naoki Saito, holds the most valuable position, and Mewtwo & Mew GX by sui comes next. Armored Mewtwo, credited to 2019 Pikachu Project, ranks 3rd, and two more Champions Festival printings sit 4th and 5th. The top five cards hold 23 percent of the total card value, a fairly spread distribution, with 55 distinct illustrators across the run.
As of October 2026, SM Black Star Promos holds the highest total card value among the 4 comparable Sun & Moon sets, about 27.9 times the era median, and it ranks 3rd across the whole game. Its most valuable card also ranks 1st in the era, and it leads the era in trading activity. At 248 printed cards it is far larger than the era median of 12. It followed McDonald's Collection 2016, which holds less total value, and came before McDonald's Collection 2017, which also holds less. Its cards first appeared in the Japanese set SM-P: Sun & Moon Promos, released November 1, 2016, with 123 shared cards.
Written from market data as of October 22, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setSM Black Star Promos | Median of 4 promo releasesSun & Moon median | 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 | 12 |
| Master set value | $7,373.35 | $265.10 | $1,341.83 | $103.58 |
| Most valuable card price | $489.99 | $65.40 | $199.99 | $31.66 |
| Priced cards | 248 of 248 | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 |
The SM Black Star Promos card list runs to 248 printings, and all 248 are priced. Because the top five cards hold only 23 percent of the total card value, the cost of a complete set is not driven by a few outliers the way it is in many sets. The Champions Festival and GX promos still sit at the top of the cost ladder, but the long tail of Pikachu and other promos carries real weight. Pikachu printings alone number 11, and Ash's Pikachu adds 7, so duplicates of the name are part of the work of completing the run.