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Release date, card count, chase cards and how it compares with the XY era.
Yellow A Alternate is a six-card promo collection in the XY era of the English-language Pokémon TCG, with an official count of 6 and 6 catalog printings in total. It was released on February 5, 2014, and sits within the XY series as a small promotional run rather than a full expansion. The card list is split between Rare and Uncommon cards, and the Pokémon it features lean on the Fighting and Lightning types. Illustrator credits are spread across four artists, with 5ban Graphics credited on three of the six cards.
Yellow A Alternate has no chase tier to speak of. Its rarities are limited to four Rare cards and two Uncommon cards, and there are no secret cards numbered past the printed count of 6. With a card list this short, the most valuable cards in Yellow A Alternate are simply whichever of the Rares collectors favor, and the Rare slots are where any premium will sit. Illustrator credits are split among 5ban Graphics, Naoki Saito and Ryo Ueda, among others, so the artist line-up gives the small run a little variety even without a rarity ladder.
Yellow A Alternate is a six-card promotional run, so it is best placed by its neighbors rather than ranked against full expansions. It came after XY Black Star Promos, the 211-card promo series that began on October 12, 2013, and before McDonald's Collection 2014, a 12-card release dated May 23, 2014. Both are promotional collections from the same stretch of the XY era, and Yellow A Alternate is the smallest of the three by official count. It arrived in February 2014, between those two releases.
Yellow A Alternate was released February 5, 2014.
Yellow A Alternate has 6 cards.
Yellow A Alternate is part of the XY era.
Written from market data as of October 23, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setYellow A Alternate | Previous setXY Black Star Promos | Next setMcDonald's Collection 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Feb 5, 2014 | Oct 12, 2013 | May 23, 2014 |
| Printed cards | 6 | 211 | 12 |
| Master set value | — | ≥ $10,180.70 | $206.07 |
| Most valuable card price | — | $499.82 | $43.41 |
| Priced cards | — | 211 of 216 | 12 of 12 |
Completing Yellow A Alternate means finding all 6 catalog printings, a short run by any measure. With only Rare and Uncommon cards and no secret tier, the set has no steep top end to push the cost of a complete run, and the work is mostly tracking down each of the six individual promos. The set sits in the XY era and its cards lean Fighting and Lightning, which makes the cards easy to slot into a themed binder or a type-focused collection.
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