# How many cards are in Brilliant Stars?

> Brilliant Stars has 172 cards in the main set, or 186 including its 14 secret rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-brilliant-stars — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**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)](/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)

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.