How many cards are in a Chaos Rising master set?

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A Chaos Rising master set is 198 cards — every card plus its 76 reverse holos.

What a Chaos Rising master set includes

One of everything: all 122 numbered cards — the 86 base plus 36 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 76 of them. That sweeps in the 17 Illustration and Special Illustration Rares, the full-art cards that carry most of the value. The ones you have to land:

The extras unique to Chaos Rising

Chaos Rising has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 122-card checklist plus 76 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 36 secret rares.

Star Pokémon in the Chaos Rising master set

A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:

The Chaos Rising master-set total

All in, a complete Chaos Rising master set is 198 cards versus 86 for the base — about 2.3× the work, or roughly 22 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Chaos Rising.

Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.

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