Sword & Shield has 202 cards in the main set, or 216 including its 14 secret rares.
Inside the Sword & Shield checklist
Sword & Shield's numbered 202-card base set splits into 173 Pokémon, 42 Trainers and 1 Energy. It's a Sword & Shield-series release and ranks the #4 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Sword & Shield:
- Snorlax — Snorlax V (#197), Snorlax VMAX (#206)
- Morpeko — Morpeko V (#190), Morpeko VMAX (#204)
- Zacian — Zacian V (#195), Zacian V (#211)
- Lapras — Lapras V (#189), Lapras VMAX (#203)
- Sableye — Sableye V (#194)
Secret rares: #203 to #216 in Sword & Shield
Anything numbered past the printed total of 202 is a secret rare. Sword & Shield has 14 of them — #203 through #216 — which lift the count from 202 to 216. The headline pulls up there:
- Snorlax VMAX (#206) — Rare Rainbow (~$96.57)
- Snorlax VMAX (#142) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$63.86)
- Marnie (#200) — Rare Ultra (~$38.23)
- Snorlax V (#197) — Rare Ultra (~$31.13)
- Morpeko VMAX (#204) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.78)
- Marnie (#208) — Rare Rainbow (~$22.75)
By rarity tier the rarer pool is 17 Rare Holo Vs, 17 Rare Holos, 16 Rare Ultras and 8 Rare Rainbows.
Collecting all of Sword & Shield
Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (165) and the target reaches 390 cards — about 1.9× the base set, or roughly 44 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 202-card base Sword & Shield or the full run.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.