Ascended Heroes has 38 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Ascended Heroes
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Ascended Heroes has 38 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 84 Commons, 69 Uncommons and 25 non-holo Rares — 178 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Mega Dragonite, Mega Charizard Y, Mega Hawlucha and Mega Gengar usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Ascended Heroes
- Mega Dragonite — Mega Dragonite ex (#152), Mega Dragonite ex (#271), Mega Dragonite ex (#290), Mega Dragonite ex (#295)
- Mega Charizard Y — Mega Charizard Y ex (#22), Mega Charizard Y ex (#294)
- Mega Hawlucha — Mega Hawlucha ex (#116), Mega Hawlucha ex (#268), Mega Hawlucha ex (#283)
- Mega Gengar — Mega Gengar ex (#125), Mega Gengar ex (#269), Mega Gengar ex (#284)
- Mega Scrafty — Mega Scrafty ex (#135), Mega Scrafty ex (#270), Mega Scrafty ex (#285)
Why Ascended Heroes' reverse holos matter
None of these 38 show on the base checklist of 217, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Ascended Heroes. Ascended Heroes also adds 140 Poké Ball and 140 Energy pattern cards, which behave like extra reverse variants on the same hunt. Counted in, a full Ascended Heroes master set is 613 cards — about 69 9-pocket pages versus 25 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Mega Charizard Y ex, Mega Dragonite ex and Mega Froslass ex — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 38-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Ascended Heroes reverse holos
At 38 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 18% the size of Ascended Heroes' 217-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 5 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Ascended Heroes master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.