How many cards are in a Paradox Rift master set?

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A Paradox Rift master set is 428 cards — every card plus its 162 reverse holos.

What a Paradox Rift master set includes

One of everything: all 266 numbered cards — the 182 base plus 84 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 162 of them. That sweeps in the 49 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 Paradox Rift

Paradox Rift has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 266-card checklist plus 162 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 84 secret rares.

Star Pokémon in the Paradox Rift master set

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

The Paradox Rift master-set total

All in, a complete Paradox Rift master set is 428 cards versus 182 for the base — about 2.4× the work, or roughly 48 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Paradox Rift.

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

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