Brilliant Stars has 172 cards in the main set, or 186 including its 14 secret rares.
Inside the Brilliant Stars checklist
Brilliant Stars' numbered 172-card base set splits into 151 Pokémon, 34 Trainers and 1 Energy. It's a Sword & Shield-series release and ranks the #18 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Brilliant Stars:
- Charizard — Charizard V (#153), Charizard V (#154), Charizard VSTAR (#174)
- Arceus — Arceus V (#165), Arceus V (#166), Arceus VSTAR (#176), Arceus VSTAR (#184)
- Pikachu — Pikachu V (#157)
- Galarian Moltres — Galarian Moltres V (#183)
- Galarian Articuno — Galarian Articuno V (#181)
Secret rares: #173 to #186 in Brilliant Stars
Anything numbered past the printed total of 172 is a secret rare. Brilliant Stars has 14 of them — #173 through #186 — which lift the count from 172 to 186. The headline pulls up there:
- Charizard V (#154) — Rare Ultra (~$356.51)
- Charizard VSTAR (#174) — Rare Rainbow (~$80.57)
- Arceus V (#166) — Rare Ultra (~$62.22)
- Charizard V (#153) — Rare Ultra (~$39.82)
- Pikachu V (#157) — Rare Ultra (~$27.99)
- Ultra Ball (#186) — Rare Secret (~$19.54)
By rarity tier the rarer pool is 21 Rare Ultras, 20 Rare Holo Vs, 10 Rare Holos and 8 Rare Rainbows.
Collecting all of Brilliant Stars
Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (124) and the target reaches 318 cards — about 1.8× the base set, or roughly 36 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 172-card base Brilliant Stars or the full run.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.