The chase cards in Sword & Shield include Snorlax VMAX, Snorlax VMAX, Marnie and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
The cards collectors chase in Sword & Shield
Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Sword & Shield — a Sword & Shield-series set with 14 secret rares and 0 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:
- Snorlax VMAX (#206) — Rare Rainbow (~$96.57)
- Snorlax VMAX (#142) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$63.86)
- Marnie (#200) — Rare Ultra (~$38.23)
- Snorlax V (#197) — Rare Ultra (~$31.13)
- Morpeko VMAX (#204) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.78)
- Marnie (#208) — Rare Rainbow (~$22.75)
Which Sword & Shield chase card leads?
Snorlax VMAX is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $96.57. Prices on these range from about $22.75 to $96.57 on the secondary market.
Star Pokémon behind the Sword & Shield chase
Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Sword & Shield:
- Snorlax — Snorlax V (#197), Snorlax VMAX (#206)
- Morpeko — Morpeko V (#190), Morpeko VMAX (#204)
- Zacian — Zacian V (#195), Zacian V (#211)
- Lapras — Lapras V (#189), Lapras VMAX (#203)
- Sableye — Sableye V (#194)
Chasing them in Sword & Shield
Sword & Shield runs to 216 cards with 0 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Snorlax VMAX, Snorlax VMAX and Marnie covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 390-card master set. The rarest single pull, Snorlax VMAX (#206) (Rare Rainbow), rounds out the want-list.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.