
This did not happen to me, but I did come close with a pack containing both the SSR Mewtwo and the Ultra Rare Solgaleo GX, so a “god pack” containing SSR Shiny Charizard GX, UR Tapu Lele GX and a prism star is technically possible. It is therefore possible, albeit extremely unlikely, to open a single pack containing a PR, SSR and UR card. Ultra Rare cards (which also replace the reverse holo) – UR Super Rare cards (which replace the reverse holo) – SR Shiny Pokemon (which replace the reverse holo) – S Prism Stars (which replace one of the two foil cards in their packs) - PR Like GX Battle Boost and Best of XY before it, most of the cards in this expansion do not contain a rarity symbol, only premium cards show a rarity designation. The typical booster pack contains 2 foil cards, 1 standard Pokemon GX, and 1 reverse holo card, along with 6 additional non-foil cards. Each booster pack, in turn, contains 10 total cards and sells for a higher than normal suggested retail price of 500 yen to account for the “premium” nature of the product. My thanks to Delibird for this lovely holiday bountyįirst, each booster box of the expansion contains only 10 booster packs. Before getting into the data, let’s go over the basics.ġ5 Booster Boxes of GX Ultra Shiny. How difficult? To answer this question, I ordered and opened 15 booster boxes of the expansion and chronicled my pulls.

Completing this set promises to be extremely difficult. This is the largest set ever released in any language, dwarfing even Lost Thunder, the current English record holder for largest expansion. GX Ultra Shiny is massive, weighing in at a whopping 250 total cards in the standard set, and 375 cards in the master set. Like its predecessors, GX Ultra Shiny includes reverse foil cards (which, while standard in the West, are not usually featured in Japanese booster sets) as well as new artwork for a number previously released premium cards. Released in Japan on November 2, 2018, GX Ultra Shiny is another premium booster expansion in the same vein as The Best of XY and GX Battle Boost, containing reprints of some of the best cards of the previous expansions with a focus on shiny Pokemon and Pokemon GX. The following card sets are the sets that have been released in Japanese.As we look ahead to an exciting year of Pokemon TCG releases in 2019, I wanted to take some time to look back at a recently released record breaking set that hasn’t gotten the coverage it deserves among Western collectors: the Japanese exclusive GX Ultra Shiny booster expansion.



