A Brilliant Stars master set is 318 cards — every card plus its 124 reverse holos.
What a Brilliant Stars master set includes
One of everything: all 186 numbered cards — the 172 base plus 14 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 124 of them. The headline cards you have to land:
- 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)
The extras unique to Brilliant Stars
Brilliant Stars has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 186-card checklist plus 124 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 14 secret rares.
Star Pokémon in the Brilliant Stars master set
A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:
- 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)
The Brilliant Stars master-set total
All in, a complete Brilliant Stars master set is 318 cards versus 172 for the base — about 1.8× the work, or roughly 36 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Brilliant Stars.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.