Hopefully in one of the Mega sets (Mega Symphony?) later this year
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Hopefully not too expensive…
Rival Battle Decks
New precedent, almost parallel to the JP decks
Release Date: May 16, 2025
Listed as: $14.99 USD per Battle Deck
Pokemon TCG: Rival Battle Deck Marnie / Steven Revealed - PokéGuardian
SVP206 IR Marnie’s Morpeko (illus. Susumu Maeya)
SVP207 IR Steven’s Beldum (illus. hncl)
- Looks like neither IR Marnie’s Morpeko nor IR Steven’s Beldum will be in Destined Rivals
- The deck cards will still be in Destined Rivals
- Destined Rivals will be a 182+ card set
136/182 Marnie’s Grimmsnarl ex (illus. PLANETA Mochizuki)
145/182 Steven’s Metagross ex (illus. PLATETA Mochizuki)
169/182 Spikemuth Gym (illus. AYUMI ODASHIMA)
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SV9a Heat Wave Arena
Main Set
SV9a 013/063 Ponyta (illus. Ayako Ozaki)
SV9a 014/063 Rapidash (illus. SIE NANANHARA)
Art Rare
SV9a 069/063 AR Rapidash (illus. Rond)
- Rond’s second Fire-type special art (AR Ceruledge)
- 4/12 Art Rares revealed
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That rapidash is amazing!
Very interesting that they kept almost everything the same on the decks.
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March Merchandise
March 14, 2025 (same as SV9a Heat Wave Arena)
Cynthia
Ethan
Arven
Misty
Shaymin
Kanto Gym Badges
Regional Pikachu
Akita
Aomori
Fukushima
Morioka
Sendai
Yamagata
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Super excited about this, really love that art style! Anyway thought about adding their cards in my artist binder but this is even better
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Mama mia, I’m in love with these sleeves
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All of these sleeves are fantastic! Might need to start a sleeve binder 
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Those regional Pikachu sleeves are beautiful, I totally agree!
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SV9a Heat Wave Arena
Main Set
SV9a 023/063 Misty’s Staryu (illus. Shinya Komatsu)
SV9a 024/063 Misty’s Starmie (illus. Natsumi Yoshida)
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Cheers!
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Thank you for the tag! 
Amazing artwork!
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SV9a Heat Wave Arena
Special Art Rare
SV9a 087/063 SAR Cynthia’s Garchomp ex (illus. HICO KIM) - new artist
- HICO [KIM] is a Korean artist, they have previously done illustrations for Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail
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A card with not one but two Cynthias, a waifu collector’s dream
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It’s somewhat creative, to fully display Garchomp and make up for Cynthia’s relative size with the background screen both get the same detail
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SV9a Heat Wave Arena
Main Set
SV9a 009/063 Applin (illus. Tetsu Kayama)
SV9a 010/063 Dipplin (illus. Shigenori Negishi)
SV9a 011/063 Hydrapple (illus. Anesaki Dynamic)
- Milestone: With Hydrapple, every Pokémon in the National Pokédex now has a regular card
Art Rare
SV9a 068/063 AR Hydrapple (illus. Jerky)
- Hydrapple’s second special art
- Hydrapple is using its signature move Fickle Beam
- 5 of 12 Art Rares have been revealed
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SV9a Heat Wave Arena
Main Set
SV9a 007/063 Dwebble (illus. Kanami Ogata) - new artist
SV9a 008/063 Crustle (illus. Po-Suzuki)
Art Rare
SV9a 067/063 AR Crustle (illus. Takumi Wada)
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Crustle’s second special art
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6/12 Art Rares revealed
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Grass-type ex is likely to be 003/063
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066/063 will be AR Shaymin
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Takumi Wada also drew the AR Aegislash (SV3a Raging Surf) which has very similar move and ability to Crustle, maybe updating it now that Pokémon V cards are out of rotation
Ability: Mysterious Stone House
Prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon ex.[G][C][C] Great Scissors: 120 damage. This attack’s damage isn’t affected by any effects on your opponent’s Active Pokémon.
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