# What are the chase cards in Celebrations?

> The chase cards in Celebrations include Mew, Flying Pikachu VMAX, Surfing Pikachu VMAX and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/chase-cards-in-celebrations — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**The chase cards in Celebrations include Mew, Flying Pikachu VMAX, Surfing Pikachu VMAX and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.**

## The cards collectors chase in Celebrations

Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Celebrations — a Sword & Shield-series set with 0 secret rares and 0 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:

- [Mew (#25)](/card/cel25-25) — Rare Holo (~$74.20)
- [Flying Pikachu VMAX (#7)](/card/cel25-7) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$8.74)
- [Surfing Pikachu VMAX (#9)](/card/cel25-9) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$8.70)
- [Pikachu (#5)](/card/cel25-5) — Rare Holo (~$8.21)
- [Surfing Pikachu V (#8)](/card/cel25-8) — Rare Holo V (~$5.17)
- [Flying Pikachu V (#6)](/card/cel25-6) — Rare Holo V (~$4.46)

## Which Celebrations chase card leads?

Mew is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $74.20. Prices on these range from about $4.46 to $74.20 on the secondary market.

## Star Pokémon behind the Celebrations chase

Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Celebrations:



## Chasing them in Celebrations

Celebrations runs to 25 cards with 0 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Mew, Flying Pikachu VMAX and Surfing Pikachu VMAX covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 25-card master set. The rarest single pull, Professor's Research (Professor Oak) (#24) (Rare Ultra), rounds out the want-list.

Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.