# How many cards are in Temporal Forces?

> Temporal Forces has 162 cards in the main set, or 218 including its 56 secret rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-temporal-forces — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**Temporal Forces has 162 cards in the main set, or 218 including its 56 secret rares.**

## Inside the Temporal Forces checklist

Temporal Forces' numbered 162-card base set splits into 185 Pokémon, 31 Trainers and 2 Energy. It's a Scarlet & Violet-series release and ranks the #22 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Temporal Forces:

- **Gastly** — Gastly (#177)
- **Raging Bolt** — Raging Bolt ex (#123), Raging Bolt ex (#196), Raging Bolt ex (#208), Raging Bolt ex (#218)
- **Gengar** — Gengar ex (#104), Gengar ex (#193)
- **Walking Wake** — Walking Wake ex (#50), Walking Wake ex (#189), Walking Wake ex (#205), Walking Wake ex (#215)
- **Sawsbuck** — Sawsbuck (#166)

## Secret rares: #163 to #218 in Temporal Forces

Anything numbered past the printed total of 162 is a secret rare. Temporal Forces has 56 of them — #163 through #218 — which lift the count from 162 to 218. The headline pulls up there:

- [Gastly (#177)](/card/sv5-177) — Illustration Rare (~$112.48)
- [Morty's Conviction (#211)](/card/sv5-211) — Special Illustration Rare (~$78.34)
- [Raging Bolt ex (#208)](/card/sv5-208) — Special Illustration Rare (~$71.71)
- [Gengar ex (#193)](/card/sv5-193) — Ultra Rare (~$71.32)
- [Walking Wake ex (#205)](/card/sv5-205) — Special Illustration Rare (~$63.62)
- [Sawsbuck (#166)](/card/sv5-166) — Illustration Rare (~$60.84)

By rarity tier the rarer pool is 22 Illustration Rares, 18 Ultra Rares, 15 Double Rares and 10 Special Illustration Rares.

## Collecting all of Temporal Forces

Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (140) and the target reaches 358 cards — about 2.2× the base set, or roughly 40 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 162-card base Temporal Forces or the full run.

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