How many cards are in Shining Fates?

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Shining Fates has 72 cards in the main set, or 73 including its 1 secret rares.

Inside the Shining Fates checklist

Shining Fates' numbered 72-card base set splits into 58 Pokémon, 15 Trainers and 0 Energy. It's a Sword & Shield-series release and ranks the #37 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Shining Fates:

Secret rares: #73 to #73 in Shining Fates

Anything numbered past the printed total of 72 is a secret rare. Shining Fates has 1 of them — #73 through #73 — which lift the count from 72 to 73. The headline pulls up there:

By rarity tier the rarer pool is 9 Rare Ultras, 8 Rare Holo Vs, 7 Rare Holos and 6 Rare Holo VMAXs.

Collecting all of Shining Fates

Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (46) and the target reaches 119 cards — about 1.7× the base set, or roughly 14 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 72-card base Shining Fates or the full run.

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

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