A Destined Rivals master set is 409 cards — every card plus its 165 reverse holos.
What a Destined Rivals master set includes
One of everything: all 244 numbered cards — the 182 base plus 62 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 165 of them. That sweeps in the 34 Illustration and Special Illustration Rares, the full-art cards that carry most of the value. The ones you have to land:
- Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex (#231) — Special Illustration Rare (~$566.14)
- Cynthia's Garchomp ex (#232) — Special Illustration Rare (~$289.98)
- Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (#230) — Special Illustration Rare (~$196.98)
- Team Rocket's Nidoking ex (#233) — Special Illustration Rare (~$127.52)
- Team Rocket's Moltres ex (#229) — Special Illustration Rare (~$124.09)
- Team Rocket's Crobat ex (#234) — Special Illustration Rare (~$81.55)
The extras unique to Destined Rivals
Destined Rivals has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 244-card checklist plus 165 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 62 secret rares.
Star Pokémon in the Destined Rivals master set
A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:
- Team Rocket's Mewtwo — Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex (#81), Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex (#213), Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex (#231), Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex (#240)
- Cynthia's Garchomp — Cynthia's Garchomp ex (#104), Cynthia's Garchomp ex (#215), Cynthia's Garchomp ex (#232), Cynthia's Garchomp ex (#241)
- Ethan's Ho-Oh — Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (#39), Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (#209), Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (#230), Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (#239)
- Team Rocket's Nidoking — Team Rocket's Nidoking ex (#119), Team Rocket's Nidoking ex (#216), Team Rocket's Nidoking ex (#233)
- Team Rocket's Moltres — Team Rocket's Moltres ex (#31), Team Rocket's Moltres ex (#208), Team Rocket's Moltres ex (#229)
The Destined Rivals master-set total
All in, a complete Destined Rivals master set is 409 cards versus 182 for the base — about 2.2× the work, or roughly 46 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Destined Rivals.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.