# How many cards are in Scarlet & Violet?

> Scarlet & Violet has 198 cards in the main set, or 258 including its 60 secret rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-scarlet-violet — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**Scarlet & Violet has 198 cards in the main set, or 258 including its 60 secret rares.**

## Inside the Scarlet & Violet checklist

Scarlet & Violet's numbered 198-card base set splits into 209 Pokémon, 47 Trainers and 2 Energy. It's a Scarlet & Violet-series release and ranks the #5 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Scarlet & Violet:

- **Gardevoir** — Gardevoir ex (#86), Gardevoir ex (#228), Gardevoir ex (#245)
- **Drowzee** — Drowzee (#210)
- **Ralts** — Ralts (#211)
- **Kirlia** — Kirlia (#212)
- **Slowpoke** — Slowpoke (#204)

## Secret rares: #199 to #258 in Scarlet & Violet

Anything numbered past the printed total of 198 is a secret rare. Scarlet & Violet has 60 of them — #199 through #258 — which lift the count from 198 to 258. The headline pulls up there:

- [Gardevoir ex (#245)](/card/sv1-245) — Special Illustration Rare (~$89.05)
- [Drowzee (#210)](/card/sv1-210) — Illustration Rare (~$70.93)
- [Ralts (#211)](/card/sv1-211) — Illustration Rare (~$53.81)
- [Kirlia (#212)](/card/sv1-212) — Illustration Rare (~$51.81)
- [Slowpoke (#204)](/card/sv1-204) — Illustration Rare (~$46.64)
- [Riolu (#215)](/card/sv1-215) — Illustration Rare (~$43.29)

By rarity tier the rarer pool is 24 Illustration Rares, 20 Ultra Rares, 12 Double Rares and 10 Special Illustration Rares.

## Collecting all of Scarlet & Violet

Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (186) and the target reaches 444 cards — about 2.2× the base set, or roughly 50 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 198-card base Scarlet & Violet or the full run.

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