# How many cards are in Surging Sparks?

> Surging Sparks has 191 cards in the main set, or 252 including its 61 secret rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-surging-sparks — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**Surging Sparks has 191 cards in the main set, or 252 including its 61 secret rares.**

## Inside the Surging Sparks checklist

Surging Sparks' numbered 191-card base set splits into 207 Pokémon, 43 Trainers and 2 Energy. It's a Scarlet & Violet-series release and ranks the #12 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Surging Sparks:

- **Pikachu** — Pikachu ex (#57), Pikachu ex (#219), Pikachu ex (#238), Pikachu ex (#247)
- **Latias** — Latias ex (#76), Latias ex (#220), Latias ex (#239)
- **Milotic** — Milotic ex (#42), Milotic ex (#217), Milotic ex (#237)
- **Hydreigon** — Hydreigon ex (#119), Hydreigon ex (#223), Hydreigon ex (#240)
- **Latios** — Latios (#203)

## Secret rares: #192 to #252 in Surging Sparks

Anything numbered past the printed total of 191 is a secret rare. Surging Sparks has 61 of them — #192 through #252 — which lift the count from 191 to 252. The headline pulls up there:

- [Pikachu ex (#238)](/card/sv8-238) — Special Illustration Rare (~$358.36)
- [Latias ex (#239)](/card/sv8-239) — Special Illustration Rare (~$194.45)
- [Milotic ex (#237)](/card/sv8-237) — Special Illustration Rare (~$142.91)
- [Pikachu ex (#247)](/card/sv8-247) — Hyper Rare (~$95.41)
- [Hydreigon ex (#240)](/card/sv8-240) — Special Illustration Rare (~$43.41)
- [Latios (#203)](/card/sv8-203) — Illustration Rare (~$38.23)

By rarity tier the rarer pool is 23 Illustration Rares, 21 Ultra Rares, 18 Double Rares and 11 Special Illustration Rares.

## Collecting all of Surging Sparks

Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (165) and the target reaches 417 cards — about 2.2× the base set, or roughly 47 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 191-card base Surging Sparks or the full run.

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