Also speculation is going around that this set would include all 156 Unova Pokemon released in the Black & White videogames. Also a mirrorfoil card would be included in each pack and 4 Art Rare cards in 1 Box. This is all yet to be confirmed soon. The set is already being compared to Scarlet & Violet - 151, due to it’s similarties.
Also deck sleeves / deck box of Zekrom and Reshiram would be available.
Lastly a Black Bolt & White Flare Card File Set that includes a promo card of Victini with 3 booster packs each of Black Bolt & White Flare which would cost 2640 yen.
I will assume this Victini promo is not the [2023] Raging Surf-themed SAR Victini ex as it should be a 2025 card with “I” regulation mark
Black/White and Black/White 2 were the original past vs future thematic in Pokemon I’m not surprised they are getting this type of set. Countless parts of the games u can point out multiple different references to past like or future like ideals and designs even in the Pokemon itself.
SV also built of tera gimmicks through the Gem items introduced in Black/White (they function the same).
PLZA is stated as a 2025 release, unless production estimates have shifted behind the scenes. I believe the speculation is for a Spring 2025 release, which would allow for 2 main sets to be crafted solely around PLZA (ORAS got 2, PLA got 2-ish). If this Unova set is a special set for the English side, that means it won’t be interrupting the main SV expansions, and we’ll get PLZA and 12 main sets as usual.
BW remakes aren’t going to happen until Gen 10, if at all. This set has no correlation to that. I’d say after 15 years, they’re allowed to make a set celebrating a generation without it being tied to a new game. There’s a possibility I’m wrong, but it’s extremely unlikely given the pattern Gamefreak has adopted for the past decade and a half.
With the above amendment, if Pokeguardian’s info on JP names is correct the BW sets are not special sets but the third 2025 main set after Glory of Team Rocket, releasing in June. We might actually be seeing a change in traditional scheduling where there is no subset expansion between SV10 and SV11
The last time the third main expansion released in June was S3 Infinity Zone (June 5, 2020), which led to sets after it moving up like S3a Legendary Heartbeat (July 10, 2020) and S4 Shocking Volt Tackle did (September 18, 2020)
A potential reason for this is that PLZA is releasing in November, and the first set of 2026 PLZA era might be in December 2025. This happened with the first Sword & Shield JP sets in 2019, with SM12a GX Tag All Stars pushed forward (October 4, 2019) to usher in the next era
A counterpoint to this could be that SV11a and SV12 are instead the PLZA sets, but I highly doubt that after this much development time (more than PLA) TPC is going to release only 2 sets for the game only to be brushed aside in a couple months for the gen 10 main game in November 2025. PLZA 2026 era is more logical in this timeframe (like HGSS)
