# How many cards are in a Brilliant Stars master set?

> A Brilliant Stars master set is 318 cards — every card plus its 124 reverse holos.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-brilliant-stars-master-set — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**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)](/card/swsh9-154) — Rare Ultra (~$356.51)
- [Charizard VSTAR (#174)](/card/swsh9-174) — Rare Rainbow (~$80.57)
- [Arceus V (#166)](/card/swsh9-166) — Rare Ultra (~$62.22)
- [Charizard V (#153)](/card/swsh9-153) — Rare Ultra (~$39.82)
- [Pikachu V (#157)](/card/swsh9-157) — Rare Ultra (~$27.99)
- [Ultra Ball (#186)](/card/swsh9-186) — 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.