Southern Islands Master Set Checklist & Cost

Variants in the Southern Islands master set

Only two variant families make up the Southern Islands master set: Normal with 12 slots and Reverse Holo with 6. The reverse holo slots belong to cards of Common rarity, so that tier is where the extra print comes from, while the other cards are collected in a single finish. A reverse holo is a version of the card with a foil treatment across the card face outside the artwork box, and in a master set it counts as its own slot, separate from the normal print of the same card.

Where the Southern Islands master set's cost sits

The Southern Islands master set concentrates its value heavily. The ten most valuable slots hold 85 percent of the total, while the lower-value half of the priced slots holds just 18 percent. By finish, reverse holo accounts for 73 percent of the value and normal prints for 27 percent, even though reverse holos are only a third of the slots. Prices exist for 18 of 18 slots. As of October 24, 2026, the LP and up total sits 37 percent below the Near Mint total, and the MP and up total sits 56 percent below it, so condition moves the master set cost sharply.

Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.

• Top 10 slots86%
• Reverse holo slots73%
• Normal slots27%
• Lower-value half17%

Shares of the master set’s priced value, from the slot prices in the checklist above.

Hardest Southern Islands master set slots

The hardest slots in the Southern Islands master set are all reverse holos of Common cards: Slowking, Mew, Togepi, Marill and Vileplume, in value order. Every one is a variant rather than the card's main print, and that is the catch in this master set: a Common that is easy to find in its normal print becomes the demanding slot in its reverse holo form. Together these five slots hold 70 percent of the master set's total value.

Most valuable slots

1. 1Mew · Reverse Holo · Common$675.18
2. 2Slowking · Reverse Holo · Common$659.02
3. 3Togepi · Reverse Holo · Common$329.23
4. 4Marill · Reverse Holo · Common$242.56
5. 5Vileplume · Reverse Holo · Common$202.43
6. 6Wartortle · Normal · Common$112.99
7. 7Onix · Normal · Common$94.94
8. 8Jigglypuff · Normal · Common$92.27
9. 9Lapras · Normal · Common$84.00
10. 10Ivysaur · Normal · Common$71.03

How the Southern Islands master set compares

At 18 slots, the Southern Islands master set is about 0.1 times the WOTC era median of 226 slots, a very small project beside its peers. By master set value it ranks 12th of 16 comparable sets in the era. The neighbors are much larger: Neo Discovery, the previous set, has 150 slots, and Neo Revelation, the next, has 132. Both of their master sets hold higher value than this one, so Southern Islands is the smaller job in both slots and total value.