Brilliant Stars has 124 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Brilliant Stars
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Brilliant Stars has 124 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 42 Commons, 46 Uncommons and 26 non-holo Rares — 114 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Charizard, Arceus, Pikachu and Galarian Moltres usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Brilliant Stars
- Charizard — Charizard V (#153), Charizard V (#154), Charizard VSTAR (#174)
- Arceus — Arceus V (#165), Arceus V (#166), Arceus VSTAR (#176), Arceus VSTAR (#184)
- Pikachu — Pikachu V (#157)
- Galarian Moltres — Galarian Moltres V (#183)
- Galarian Articuno — Galarian Articuno V (#181)
Why Brilliant Stars' reverse holos matter
None of these 124 show on the base checklist of 172, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Brilliant Stars. There are no pattern variants in Brilliant Stars, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Brilliant Stars master set is 318 cards — about 36 9-pocket pages versus 20 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Charizard V, Charizard VSTAR and Arceus V — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 124-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Brilliant Stars reverse holos
At 124 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 72% the size of Brilliant Stars' 172-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 14 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Brilliant Stars master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.