A Sword & Shield master set is 390 cards — every card plus its 165 reverse holos.
What a Sword & Shield master set includes
One of everything: all 216 numbered cards — the 202 base plus 14 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 165 of them. The headline cards you have to land:
- 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)
The extras unique to Sword & Shield
Sword & Shield has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 216-card checklist plus 165 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 14 secret rares.
Star Pokémon in the Sword & Shield master set
A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:
- 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)
The Sword & Shield master-set total
All in, a complete Sword & Shield master set is 390 cards versus 202 for the base — about 1.9× the work, or roughly 44 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Sword & Shield.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.