Astral Radiance has 128 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Astral Radiance
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Astral Radiance has 128 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 40 Commons, 47 Uncommons and 21 non-holo Rares — 108 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Machamp, Origin Forme Palkia, Beedrill and Origin Forme Dialga usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Astral Radiance
- Machamp — Machamp V (#171), Machamp V (#172), Machamp VMAX (#194)
- Origin Forme Palkia — Origin Forme Palkia V (#167), Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR (#192), Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR (#208)
- Beedrill — Beedrill V (#160), Beedrill V (#161)
- Origin Forme Dialga — Origin Forme Dialga V (#177), Origin Forme Dialga VSTAR (#198), Origin Forme Dialga VSTAR (#210)
- Hisuian Sneasler — Hisuian Sneasler V (#174), Hisuian Sneasler V (#175)
Why Astral Radiance's reverse holos matter
None of these 128 show on the base checklist of 189, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Astral Radiance. There are no pattern variants in Astral Radiance, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Astral Radiance master set is 344 cards — about 39 9-pocket pages versus 21 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Machamp V, Origin Forme Palkia V and Beedrill V — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 128-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Astral Radiance reverse holos
At 128 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 68% the size of Astral Radiance's 189-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 15 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Astral Radiance master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.