[ENG] SV09 Journey Together (MAR 28) / [JP] SV9 Battle Partners

SV9F Battle Partners (Traditional Chinese)

Collection File N & Lillie

Taiwan/HK will be receiving these with contents identical to JP

Release date: Feb 7, 2025

MSRP: NT$650 , HK $160

Same holofoil pattern

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SV9 Battle Partners

Main Set

SV9 095/100 Ruffian (illus. Hideki Ishikawa)

  • Ruffian Trainer Class is battled throughout the Kitakami region (SV DLC)
  • 2 of 4 Supporter slots remaining
    • Potentially N & Lillie
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Forum doesnt let him reply after 5 striaght replies, I am his hero not his competition

Now let me return to not interacting with forum

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You are so cool

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SV9 Battle Partners

Main Set

SV9 047/100 Larvitar (illus. Dsuke)
SV9 048/100 Pupitar (illus. Scav)
SV9 058/100 Tyranitar (illus. AKIRA EGAWA)



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The Tyranitar is absolutely lovely. So well done. Thanks for sharing the update.

Cheers!

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Ttar has the same vibes as holo from Mysterious Treasures.

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First product images

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SV09 Journey Together

Product images

  • It appears all the products are related solely to SV9 Battle Partners, which may mean SV9a Heat Wave Arena [March 14, 2025] might not be part of the English set
  • N & Zoroark on the ETB → potential IR N’s Zorua promo?








  • Pack illustrations are identical to the JP pack, just separated into 4 archetypes

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SV09 Journey Together

ETB (description)

  • ETB promo will be IR N’s Zorua
  • This might mean SV9 Battle Partners will have AR N’s Zorua, swapped with Iono’s Wattrel promo

Set description

Journey Together includes:

  • Over 180 cards
  • 4 Trainer’s Pokémon ex
  • More than 40 Trainer’s Pokémon
  • 16 Pokémon ex
  • 11 illustration rare Pokémon
  • 6 special illustration rare Pokémon
  • 3 hyper rare gold etched cards
  • More than 30 Pokémon and Trainer cards with special illustrations

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/scarlet-violet-journey-together

https://press.pokemon.com/en/releases/Globally-Popular-Pokemon-Trading-Card-Game-Available-Soon-in-Latin-Ame

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PC ETB preorder is live as well as BB w/promo card

The new ‘Enhanced’ booster box looks like it will have the promo card packaged inside (like a box topper)

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Yup apparently they will put AR N’s Reshiram as the box topper promo


11 Illustration Rares in the set should mean:

  • SV9 Battle Partners has 12 AR
  • They took out AR N’s Zorua from the JP set as the ETB promo (-1)
  • They took out AR N’s Reshiram from the JP set as the box topper promo (-1)
  • They put the promo AR Iono’s Wattrel into the set (+1)

I’m speculating they did this because of the 4 main character archetypes, N is probably the most popular in the West

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Wait so what happened to Iono’s Wattrel?

I guess I was kinda right and kinda wrong, we species collectors get our new language sooner as we probably expected and it’s the first non Asian one to be added since 2014:

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Probably put into the set as an Illustration Rare

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Gotcha, it’s still a japanese promo though, right?

Does this mean they will be printing more booster boxes? Because I was under the impression that they were shifting away from printing booster boxes and towards more bulky air filled collection boxes. I hope this means they will shift more towards booster boxes again. Less waste, and I get the exact set packs I want. Also more space efficient for shipping, thus lowers shipping price per pack.

Also, pokemon center website is shutdown. What happened? They’ve never done that before. Are they actually trying to fight people who bot the PC ETBs and other desirable products?(Doubtful as we know they don’t seem to really care).
I will assume I’ve missed out at this point. :man_shrugging:

Yep for each box purchase

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Booster boxes are the norm for main sets, this being the first main set of 2025